Thanks, Lemons. He did an internship remotely with this firm's Boston office last spring and received a really good job offer from them at the end. He wants to work there, so he accepted the offer and we have all been assuming he'd have to stay in the Boston area and then look into a transfer to New York after he'd been there for a while. Unless of course, he wound up loving Boston. It is a relief to know that he has a good, professional job lined up for when he graduates. He still has mates in this area from secondary school and a local crew team that he's rowed with for years, so those are other reasons he'd like to move back in next year.
Champagne, I remember those days when my two took driving lessons and then took their tests and started driving. In addition to having to worry about them on the road, prepare to add several gold bars to your automobile insurance payments for having him covered.
Silkie, you're lucky the fridge was fixable. Covid has completely hobbled the supply chains for white goods. We had to replace a fridge last year and it took over a month to get one. We have a smaller fridge in the garage that we limped by with until the new one came in.