Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/02

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Subject: [Leica] Ten years
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 19:04:46 -0400
References: <E51186FA69FF4DD3B2CA6F0DFBCB7EFA@jimnichols> <CC178C85.208D3%mark@rabinergroup.com>

You may not wear sandals with socks in the summer.  In the winter, it's
fine with Birkenstock type sandals and heavy woolen socks.  In the summer
you have to go barefoot in the sandals.  Toenails are fine if they are
clipped and clean.

Not really fashion police, just common sense!!

Tina

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:

> Thanks Jim I'd forgot my point which is as of a month or so ago no smoking
> in the Parks of NY. It really changed the park experience I was surprised.
> I have new Clarks Sandals now (as of five minutes ago from Harry's), "Air"
> so I am in great shape. Did well going down the sidewalk on Bway. Can't tie
> my shoes in the morning so I am much more sandal person now. The big
> question. Socks or no socks? I'm still to shy for people to be looking at
> my
> toenails in public. I mean they are gross.
> These old Clarks I got for my trip to Maui when I turned 50 in January
> 2001.
> Afterwards I mainly wore them as house shoes. But a big chunk missing out
> of
> the bottoms.
>
> - - from my iRabs.
> Mark Rabiner
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>
>
> > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 14:48:02 -0500
> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten years
> >
> > Mark said:
> >> I'm just back from a walk in
> >> Riverside Park which is my park and I didn't have to breath any
> cigarette
> >> smoke. Poor me. The cars will have to hit me crossing the street.
> >
> > It is good to hear that you are feeling well enough to get out for a
> walk.
> > I hope your progress continues.
> >
> > Jim Nichols
> > Tullahoma, TN USA
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 2:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten years
> >
> >
> >>> From all I can gather nicotine and tar are the only things which kill
> ya
> >> faster than alcohol. So you're doing yourself a favor.
> >>
> >> As Redd Fox said:
> >> Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying
> of
> >> nothing.
> >>
> >> Both my parents died way way early as a result of cigarettes. Just
> >> saying...
> >> I can live without being anywhere around that. I'm just back from a walk
> >> in
> >> Riverside Park which is my park and I didn't have to breath any
> cigarette
> >> smoke. Poor me. The cars will have to hit me crossing the street.
> >>
> >> - - from my iRabs.
> >> Mark Rabiner
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org>
> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 11:25:28 -0700
> >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten years
> >>>
> >>> 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/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> Leica Users Group.
> >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Herbert Kanner
> >>> kanner at acm.org
> >>> 650-326-8204
> >>>
> >>> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Leica Users Group.
> >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
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>
>
>
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>


-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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