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Subject: [Leica] Ten years
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:38:05 -0400

>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/
>> 
>> 
>> 
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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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