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Subject: [Leica] Ten years
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:25:28 -0700
References: <CC169180.2085C%mark@rabinergroup.com>

The past year or so, I've quit beer and am in a wine phase. Just one 
or at most two glasses of wine at dinner.

Gotta tell y'all how I quit after after over forty years of smoking. 
I got a job at Apple. That company is one great big no-smoking zone. 
To defend against guys who might smoke while working all night in an 
almost empty office, there was a sign saying: "Don't even think of 
carrying a lighted cigarette down this corridor."

Well, for two weeks, every time a colleague left the building to have 
a smoke out front, I followed him and bummed a cigarette. After those 
two weeks, I just quit!

That was in 1986.

Herb



>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.
>
>
>
>- - from my iRabs.
>Mark Rabiner
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
>
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-- 
Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.


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