Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I turned ninety yesterday, 9 June. Unfortunately I never followed Uncle Ted's advice about regular exercise. I suppose I must have been influenced by Robert Maynard Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago when I was an undergraduate. His famous quote was: Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lay down until it goes away." So my musculature has gone to hell in the last year or so. For many years, the nearest I came to exercise was piloting light aircraft. I suppose climbing into the cockpit could be called exercise. Then I discovered horses and for thirty years rode every week at a minimum. The last few years of riding, I decided to take dressage lessons, not to compete, just to learn more about communicating with the horse. I was lucky; I found an instructor who, while I was studying with her, qualified as an Olympics judge. The mistake I made was to stop. I had been leasing the use of this horse from when she was six years old, and in time she became too old and lame prone to be used by me. So, I set intended to rent another animal just as the rainy season started and the horse ranch became a mud hole. My wife persuaded me that it would be sensible to wait until spring, and I just never got around to resuming riding. Moral: there are times when you shouldn't listen to your wife :-) Herb -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.