Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/08

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Old Fartdom
From: bampolsk@csc.com
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 09:10:11 -0500

Three cheers for Sal and Ted!!!  As someone quickly pushing old-fartdom
(I'm 59), I refuse to go quietly into the night or anywhere else.  In fact,
I plan to spend December 23, 2012 (the end of the current Mayan epoch and
beginning of the next - I'll be 70 then) on top of a pyramid in Uaxactun,
Guatemala...  Uaxactun is a beautiful Mayan site which has so far been
uncluttered and undiscovered by tourists.  So, on that auspicious occasion,
I intend to be at Uaxactun starting from the Winter Solstice.  I was there
this year for the summer solstice and it was spectacular.  Uaxactun has the
oldest astronomical complex in the Mayan world, the E-Group, probably built
initially around 100BCE, and then rebuilt several times, as the Maya were
wont to do.  The E-group is explicitly set up for viewing the equinoxes and
solstices, and unlike Chichen Itza and Tikal, my travel companion and I
were the only ones there for the summer solstice.  Anyway, as long as I can
carry around a Leica or two with a 28 summicron, I'll be out snapping and
enjoying the things others have built.  Meantime, I'll continue to enjoy
all manners of things like sex, opera, archaeology, Leicas, Leicas and
Leicas.  By the way, my kids (15 and 17) claim that I've been an old fart
for years already.  Shows what they know...

Cheers,

Brian

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