Signing off from AskWoody

[Tracey Capen]

CHANGES By TB Capen The smartest call you can make in business is knowing when it’s time to leave. After some thirty years in tech journalism, it’s ti
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[OscarCP]

“The smartest call you can make in business is knowing when it’s time to leave.”

True and also true if one expands the meaning of “business” to include all the different paths along which we choose to make our careers, leaving our tracks on them as evidence of our passing by, for as long as they may stay there.

Thank you for your advice and opinions, and all the best to you wherever you go.

Windows 7 Professional, SP1, x64 Group W (ex B) & macOS Mojave + Linux (Mint)

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Nathan Parker

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[Susan Bradley]

Thank you for making me sound better all these years!

Susan Bradley Patch Lady

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SueW, GreatAndPowerfulTech, Geo, abbodi86, Nathan Parker

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[Mr. Natural]

Tracey thanks for keeping things together for as long as you have. It really has been quite a run….

Red Ruffnsore

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[cybercrone]

Gonna miss you for sure.  Thanks for all you’ve done to help us out over the years.

It sounds as if you have lots of fascinating projects to get on with for the next stage of things, so all the best.  And maybe you can drop in and do a guest column once a year and update us on your projects too?

"She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined.
She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot."
--Mark Twain

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[Nathan Parker]

Thanks for delivering us an excellent newsletter over the years, and I look forward to seeing you round AskWoody off and on in your retirement!

Nathan Parker

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[Bill C.]

Congratulations! on a job well done.

I edited an organization newsletter for 9 years and it was nowhere as complex as the AskWoody NL. I can be sure you earned it. After a long time, as an editor, it begins to seem as if all your writing seems the same, and the new will just not flow as it first did. That is the time to hand off the task.

Thanks for all you have done during this journey.

BTW, your new place sounds like a piece of heaven on earth. Have fun.

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[Pepsiboy]

Tracy,

Many thanks for the help and good advice over the years. Best wishes to you and may our net road be a smooth one.

Dae

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[LoneWolf]

Thank you Tracey, for the hard work you have done. I think many long-experienced IT people might be a tad envious of the transition you are making; I wish you much joy and peace in it.

Doug (aka LoneWolf)

We are SysAdmins.
We walk in the wiring closets no others will enter.
We stand on the bridge, and no malware may pass.
We engage in tech support, we do not retreat.
We live for the LAN.
We die for the LAN.

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[rexr]

Thank you Tracey, your articles helped me keep straight on Windows and computing for years! Happy ‘retirement’ and i too hope that you will keep writing articles at AW  🙂

Win10 Pro 20H2 19042.746
Backups with Macrium Reflect home edition

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[MSG_Barishman]

Wishing you, and your family, the very happiest of “retirement.”

I’ve been a subscriber for a long, long, long time.

I retired 22 years ago, and I always refer to it as “the best job I never had.”

Enjoy the “new job.”!

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[anonymous]

Tracey, thanks for your years and countless hours of serving us all. Know you will have a great retirement and never, ever be run out of things to do for fun and fulfillment.

 

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[CADesertRat]

Thanks for your years of service to us all. I started many years ago with Brian and now it looks like he is coming back? I hope you have a great and well deserved retirement. Come to think of it, why are so many retiring from AW LOL. Evidently we are slowly wearing everybody out 🙂

Don't take yourself so seriously, no one else does 🙂
4 Win 10 Pro at 1909 (3 Desktops, 1 Laptop).

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[jackslate]

Tracey – Thanks for all your hard work and expertise. That farm house will benefit from the additional discretionary time you will have!

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[Fred]

Thanks Tracey for your good writings, making people aware. You will be missed. Good Bye.

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[IreneLinda]

Tracey, your name is one of the many synonymous for me with Woody’s Lounge and Windows Secrets over the years. Sad to see you go, but understand why you’re leaving. All the best to you in your retirement and with your forest. I’ll miss you!

Linda

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[anonymous]

Unchained from the shackles of editorials, and just in time too.
Enjoy the freedom, best of health and happiness to you Tracey

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[WSGeorge F]

Enjoy the well-earned retirement. Sounds like a good life among the trees. Thanks for your work and stay healthy.

Awful late with this, but here’s hoping it reboots and keeps goin’.

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