Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/06

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Subject: RE: [Leica] How to survive agonizing weekend waiting for new Noctilux?
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:53:11 -0500

Girl friend? You'd better have a ring ready to exchange for that little bit
of glass! :-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Tony
> Rowlett
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 5:29 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] How to survive agonizing weekend waiting for new
> Noctilux?
>
>
> Dear LUGnuts:
>
> After digesting Erwin's article in Photo Techniques (several times), and
> the many postings here about the Noctilux, I have lately been
> drooling over
> the concept of owning one.  Now, to make matters utterly worse,
> and because
> of my meddling girlfriend, as beautiful as she is, I have to
> spend the next
> few days, including this coming weekend, in pure and utter agony while I
> wait to receive the new Noctilux that she has ordered for me.  How did I
> get myself in this mess?  Was I that obvious?  How can one tell when one
> has gone over the edge in anticipation of this legendary lens?  Will she
> have to go to "Nocilux anonymous" on account of this fiasco?   I hope that
> I can gain some comfort from my friends at the LUG in this time
> of "waiting
> agony"  Just what am I going to do until I receive it??  And what kind of
> Scotch whisky should I buy tonight in celebration?  HELP!
>
> Nervous Wreck in Alaska!
>
> Tony Rowlett
> Anchorage, Alaska
> http://www.alaska.net/~rowlett
>