[Leica] Ten years

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Mark said:
>I'm just back from a walk in
>Riverside Park which is my park and I didn't have to breath any cigarette
>smoke. Poor me. The cars will have to hit me crossing the street.

It is good to hear that you are feeling well enough to get out for a walk. 
I hope your progress continues.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten years


> >From all I can gather nicotine and tar are the only things which kill ya
> faster than alcohol. So you're doing yourself a favor.
>
> As Redd Fox said:
> Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of
> nothing.
>
> Both my parents died way way early as a result of cigarettes. Just 
> saying...
> I can live without being anywhere around that. I'm just back from a walk 
> in
> Riverside Park which is my park and I didn't have to breath any cigarette
> smoke. Poor me. The cars will have to hit me crossing the street.
>
> - - from my iRabs.
> Mark Rabiner
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
>> From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:25:28 -0700
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten years
>>
>> The past year or so, I've quit beer and am in a wine phase. Just one
>> or at most two glasses of wine at dinner.
>>
>> Gotta tell y'all how I quit after after over forty years of smoking.
>> I got a job at Apple. That company is one great big no-smoking zone.
>> To defend against guys who might smoke while working all night in an
>> almost empty office, there was a sign saying: "Don't even think of
>> carrying a lighted cigarette down this corridor."
>>
>> Well, for two weeks, every time a colleague left the building to have
>> a smoke out front, I followed him and bummed a cigarette. After those
>> two weeks, I just quit!
>>
>> That was in 1986.
>>
>> Herb
>>
>>
>>
>>> When Lluis was taking about getting out of the hospital and his Doc 
>>> saying
>>> no booze not even beer it got me thinking and checking my records and
>>> calendar on my own booze thing and it turns out I was due for a 
>>> milestone in
>>> a day. Which was today. June 1, 2002 alcohol and I came to a parting of 
>>> the
>>> ways which I had a feeling at the time was not just a phase. And its 
>>> been
>>> ten years so to that extent I've been right. I just can't think of 
>>> anything
>>> I've set my mind to that I was able to not waver from for a full decade. 
>>> I
>>> get distracted. I forget why I'm doing things. I forget why I'm not 
>>> doing
>>> things.  And booze is so ubiquitous. So friendly. So civilized.
>>> Even here on the Lug you guys have this single malt thing going like its 
>>> a
>>> key part of the Leica lifestyle. Its all in fun of course though some of 
>>> us
>>> are less light hearted on certain subjects you check our Mohicans and 
>>> see.
>>> I'll remind you this time next decade and you can tip a glass of Mango
>>> cocktail for me which just happens to be what I have here I use it for 
>>> my
>>> Metamucil in the morning. Very tasty stuff. Has to be to mask the 
>>> Metamucil.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> - - from my iRabs.
>>> Mark Rabiner
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> Herbert Kanner
>> kanner at acm.org
>> 650-326-8204
>>
>> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>>
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