Tim Wynn posts final 'Desk Notes' of WWU career

Well, as ‘they’ say, the jig is finally up.  The Internal Revenue Service finally got around to auditing my returns for the past several years and has called into question some legitimate business expenses.  (I still say that deducting gambling losses as a training expense for risk management (WISR) is an acceptable mainstream practice.)  At any rate, I have made the decision to retire and ‘help Jane around the house.’  She is really excited about this.  Honest.  She has even stopped rolling her eyes when I discuss how I am going to be more ‘there’ for her.  I am confident that I can be value added to her house cleaning regime.  Actually, I am thinking about getting a degree in Agave Cactus growing.  I hear that they make a beautiful house plant.

What?  Why am I really retiring?  I have to say that it is just time.  I have worked at Western for 10 years following 30 years in the Army and enjoyed working with the people here very much.  But it is time for a change in the pattern of my life.   I want to do a little more traveling to places that I haven’t been and I want to do things I haven’t had the time to attempt.  I need to pay more attention to what my doctor and wife have been telling me and less attention to working every day.  I need to read more and worry less.  And I for sure no longer have the desire to see Red Square at 4:30 a.m. after a heavy snow.

Thanks for all of you who have read these notes and responded.  I appreciated the support and the honest criticism.  Good luck to everyone at Western and especially the people at Facilities Management.  They are an outstanding group.  It was my privilege to have worked with them for these past ten years.  I will miss them and you very much.  But it is time.

With best wishes, I am outta here.

Tim Wynn