Weekend 3-point update →[More:]
1. While I was at the Delaware beach the other week I was bitten to pieces by mosquitos. I got some Benadryl gel from CVS to put on the bites. It turns out I'm allergic to Benadryl, and now I have hives on top of the bites. Aloe vera gel is helping, as are Vit C tablets. But I want to rip my skin off.

2. I've had an nice ease-in back to work, with two days working from home. I'm not looking forward to going back to the office on Monday. Yesterday it was announced that there will be (voluntary) layoffs next year, with those of us remaining being transferred to a new area to work on different types of cases. I'm not going to apply for redundancy. I'd get a payoff of about a year's salary (which is taxable). But I'm seven years off my state retirement age, and it makes more sense for me to carry on working with my current employers for as long as I'm able to, stashing away as much as I can in my pension fund and savings, whilst keeping a decent salary, private health care and flexible working. I don't want a new career, I'm too old and Brexit has caused such economic uncertainty that I can't take the chance of potential unemployment. I'd rather see this job out until I can draw my pension.

3. I have a lot of gardening to do this weekend, particularly weeding my vegetable bed. But at least now the seeds I planted are growing, I can tell what's a weed and what's chard or cauliflower.