[Leica] OT: I've retired

[pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein)]

Thanks so much to to all who responded and wished me well. Retirement is 
obviously a major decision, and I'm glad to hear so much encouragement 
and experiences from all of you.

Brian: Please keep working. Ted: 100, 101, 102, who's counting?

Tina and Larry: To quote (from memory Professor Higgins):"My hobby is 
phonetics. It is also my profession, Happy is the man* whose hobby is 
also his profession." I spent many years working at what I fell into 
that made money (and thank goodness it was interesting when the business 
types didn't ruin it). Now my hobbies *will* be my profession, and I get 
to choose how hard I work--God and the Universe willing.

Alan: I've really enjoyed your "wayback" posts. Somewhere in the 30 
boxes of stuff from my late parents that sit in my attic is "The 
Motherlode," a box of Kodachromes from the late 50s-70s that are the 
chronicle my family's life. I found, stole and scanned the ones from the 
early 50s I found when they moved here. I'm looking forward to finding 
and feeding the missing decades into the scanner.

--Peter

* - He should have said "person"


 > On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote;
 > Subject: Re: [Leica] On retirement
 >
 > >>  The big secret of a happy retirement is to retire TO something 
rather
 > >> than FROM something.
 >
 > >This is one of the best things I've read on the LUG in quite a 
while. Thank
 > >you, Larry. I'm 64 and a number of my peers are retiring. I hadn't been
 > >able to put my finger on why I didn't want to retire, >but this 
nails it. A
 > >week after I no longer have anything to do, I know I will drop dead.
 >
 > >Brian Reid
 > 
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 > I'll agree.  While working I never had time to organize my personal
 > collection of photos, which includes prints, B&W negatives in formats 
from
 > Minox to 4x5, 35mm and 6x7 color transparencies, and (mainly 
architectural)
 > 35mm Stereo Realist slides.
 >
 > Now I can.
 >
 > Plus, I'm caretaker to my father's collection of family negatives and 
prints
 > from 1941 to the sixties,  his documentation of service in WWII and of
 > optometry school in the fifties.
 >
 > It's keeping me busy.
 >
 > Alan