The blog seems to be back to normal following last week's move, so this is the personal announcement that I said was coming down the pike.

I intend to retire next summer (not from blogging but from my real job).  In October 2008, I will have worked twenty years with my current employer, all in the same statistician position.  I have informed the powers that be that my retirement will be effective as of that date.  With accumulated vacation time, etc., my last day in the office will fall sometime in August next year.

I won't detail all the factors that led to this decision at this time, except to say that it has to do with the StatWife's employment situation, not mine.  Accordingly, we plan to depart Yukon after almost twenty adventurous and wonderful years here.  Our destination, God willing, will be the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia.  (We hope the province is having all the lousy weather this winter, so our first winter there will be mild and pleasant.)

We know that Nova Scotia is not the most congenial place in Canada for traditional orthodox Anglicans, but we have heard of a few parishes where the faith represented by Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer is upheld and proclaimed.  We hope to make our home with one of them.

I have no definite plans yet for my post-retirement life, except to do things I don't have time to do enough of now: reading, praying, contributing to the church, physical activities.  I may also seek opportunities for short-term consulting assignments.  Some will be sad glad to hear that I have no plans to stop blogging, although there will no doubt be an interruption as we pack up and move to the Far East of Canada.

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