Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Nov 16, 2008, at 3:08 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > George Lottermoser suggested: > >> Indeed - enjoy your special day, Philippe. > >> I always encourage folks to do something totally out of the > >> ordinary on > their birthday.<<<<, > > Hi George, > > Absolutely do something as wild as you?ve always wanted to do. > Particularly > the older you get, because if you don?t do it before you die it > ain?t going > to happen! > > It?s like this???? > > ?JUST DO IT AND DON?T WASTE TIME THINKING ABOUT IT OR YOU?LL NEVER > DO IT!? > > Obviously never tell your wife first if it?s something really > stupid! :-) > > > > Like taking your first and only solo parachute jump on your 65 > birthday! :-) > Because you always thought it would be neat to try. > > (Note to married guys!) > > Really don?t tell her that one before you jump because you may never > live to > do it. Actually if I did it again, I was without question told,?. ?I > will > kill you even if you land safely!? Man there was fire in her eyes. > So I > didn?t do it again. > > However on a more fun note on the 76th birthday day, I flew in a P51 > Mustang > doing all kinds of cool things barrel rolling, loop the loops and > doing > imaginary dog fights with the on-coming Hun 109?s! :-) > > No I didn?t tell her that one either until it was over. Didn?t seem > to be as > big a problem as I was in a plane with a parachute on! The story may > have > been quite different if she?d seen us flipping about the sky! :-) > > Damn good wonderful birthday gifts. :-) > > > > George is right, always do something really different and to hell > with the > age! > > I already have two things in the works for the 80th next May. > > One or the other of these two. > > I ride in a submarine when it dives ? A navy attach? buddy is > working on > this. However given the state of the Canadian submarines jumping > with a > parachute was a much safer idea! :-) > > Second? A big discussion three weeks ago in Ottawa with a high > ranking air > force officer??. Not likely to happen. :-( But nothing ventured > nothing > gained! What the hell you can only die once! :-) And at 80 who > really cares > after the life I?ve had! :-) > > But some key people think it?s just crazy enough to work now that I?m > ?Doctor Grant? it might pull some extra weight. :-) > > Man if you?ve got it one might as well use it, particularly for a > ride in an > RCAF CF18 fighter jet! Not sure what the American?s call them, but > it?s our > main fighter plane. here you have a choice between a parachute and a rabbit's foot... > > > Yes I will take pictures for sure! Just as I did in the Mustang. See > Steve > Barbour?s LUG photogs file and there I am hanging upside down like a > bat! > :-) take a look here for gory details... http://www.solio.us/gallery/tedgrant > > > Sorry the long post, but Philippe, go for it old buddy something > wild and > crazy! You?ll love it. :-) :-) :-) > > ted > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information