I am now a senior citizen. In the 1960’s and 1970’s there were not many diseases like AIDS. The worst you got was a simple case of the CLAP, and... you would have to take a few doses of penicillin.Here I was starting Junior High school in the 9th grade. That was when 7th, 8th, and 9th was the Junior high, or as you call it Middle School these days. I came from private schooling. Grade school was Kindergarten thru 8th grade. High school was 9th grade to 12th grade. After I flunked the harsh. But in upstate New York? That was a bit strange. The invitation to meet was two weeks out and so I had a chance to think about it. Not much to think about: there weren’t going to be too many chances for me to make videos at my age and in my shape and if one came along I’d be an idiot to turn it down. So, one had come along and I was going.I was to meet Mr. Kiritoru just outside the Greyhound Station in Elmira on Friday afternoon and stay with him until Saturday afternoon. We’d stay at the. The final numbers were more like 12%, not bad when I could have made 5% work but I was learning how you had to play the game with state agencies. Ask for twice what you wanted and the higher ups could cut your request in half to stroke their ego that they were doing their job to reduce cost.It was unusual that I got more than I asked but then I knew that something bigger was coming my way in work requests for my department.HR had the next hour with a list of new reporting requirements and new. Now it has reached 12000+. It was also listed in ‘Editor’s Pick’. I had bought a 2 BHK flat near to my office. My mother was working in a private company in the native place and she had 8-10 months left for retirement. She also had a lot of leaves remaining which she had to take before her retirement.So she decided to take leave from work for almost one month and come and live with me along with dad. Mom called me and told she and dad will be coming to my place in Bangalore. I was super excited.