Hi Walt:
The Aussies have a great saying, "Every day above ground is a good day".
George Burns read the obits in the newspaper and if he wasn't in them he got
out of bed.
Let me tell you about three old guys in a 'home' one was 70, one was 80 and
the oldest was 90. The younger two didn't drink but they liked to share a
whine. One day the 70 year old says, Geez, life is rough, if only I could
have a good pee like I used to, now I have to stand and stand ....", "That's
nothing," said the 80 year old, "You wait till your my age and can't have a
good bowel movement, then you'll know what rough means." The 90 year old
could not take anymore of this, so he retorts, "Stop it! You kids whine on
about nothing, you don't have big problems it's just your attitude. Why,
every morning at 7:30 I have a good pee, and every morning at 9:00 I have a
good bowel movement, my only problem is I don't get out of bed till 10:30."
Too bad that wasn't a Canadian beer you'd feel twice as good. Hang in there,
no-one can replace you on this list. I would take it as a huge sign of
respect that not one member has even asked if they can have your OM stuff
yet. Have a good weekend.
Gord
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:34 AM
Subject: [OM] Old and in the way
>
> The crap in the basement has long since passed critical mass, so,
> at the urging (not quite nagging, not just yet) of the lady of the
> house, I spent an hour or so this morning digging through some old
> photo-related stuff way over in the darkest corner. It was there
> that I came across my three old, not-looked-at-in-20-years-or-more
> Kodak Reference Handbooks: No. 1, "Black-and-White Picture
> Taking;" No. 2, "Black-and-White Processing and Printing," and No.
> 3, "Kodak Color Handbook - Materials, Processes, Techniques."
>
> In a fit of nostalgia, I opened the color handbook to the back
> section behind the tab labeled "Notes" to see what pearls of
> wisdom I had recorded in the distant past, and there I found,
> neatly hole-punched and inserted into the binder, complete
> instructions sheets from a series of Ektachrome processing kits.
> There were, in descending order, E-4 instructions, dated 6/73; E-3
> instructions, dated 5/59, and, most depressing, E-2 instructions,
> dated 8/56.
>
> I now realize I really am older than dirt. Have I been squinting
> at the world through a viewfinder or watching it upside down on a
> ground glass for half a century? Why am I still doing this? Has
> my learning curve gone completely flat? Why don't I have a life?
> Will it be film or digital in the great beyond? Should I care?
>
> It was just too, too depressing down there, so I came upstairs,
> got a cold one out of the fridge. I'm feeling a little better
> now. It's a pretty, sunny day here, bright blue sky, heading for
> the 50's on the F. scale (sorry, you folks in the frigid north!),
> and so I think I'll wander outside and shoot something. I may
> even do it with a camera, possibly even an OM of one sort or
> another.
>
> Walt
>
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> than he needs." -- Mark Twain (defining the cause of Zuikoholism a
> century ago)
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