[Leica] Ten years

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

Thanks Jim!

- - from my iRabs.
Mark Rabiner
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 14:11:04 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten years
> 
> Congratulations to both you and Mark.  As the child of an alcoholic father,
> who spent his last 15 years as a recovering alcoholic, I know personally 
> how
> difficult it is to give up such dependencies.  His tobacco dependency led 
> to
> emphysema, which eventually cost him his health and led to his death.  I
> wish you both the best in your endeavors.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist3 at mac.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 1:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten years
> 
> 
>> 
>> On Jul 1, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Congratulations Mark!
>> 
>> 1/1/89 marked the end of my alcohol (and other mind altering substance)
>> use.
>> 23.5 years sober - amazing.
>> 4/24/12 marked the end of my tobacco use.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>> george at imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>> 
>> 
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