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But I&#8217;m still a lot on Zoom calls &#8212; I don&#8217;t see that changing when half of our team is in a different time zone.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time sorting out my LEGO collection&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=The+End+of+2022\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.mouse-network.com\/?p=761\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re coming up on the end of 2022&#8230; It was better than 2020, but still not back to normal&#8230; If I look back through my pictures last year, the things that stand out: Work is work&#8230; we started going into the office a few days out of the week. 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