[Leica] There goes my M9 budget

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

Richard, I think that you know that last year I vacated and sold a house 
less than 1/2 mile from where you live.  I had bought it in 1980. It was 
built in 1924, which is very very old for our city.

In 1990 when I lost patience with my ongoing sewer problems and hired a 
contractor to fix it, they discovered that my sewer line had been made out 
of heavy cardboard that was soaked in coal tar. After 65 years, the original 
pipe had pretty much disintegrated, and the "sewer line" was just the hole 
in the hard clay that was left behind by the rotted-out cardboard pipe.