Beta 8.10 released

[Billie Walsh]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 12 October 2008, Billie Walsh wrote:
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>> Lisi Reisz wrote:
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>>> On Sunday 12 October 2008 00:31:47 Gene Heskett wrote:
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>>>>> Incidently, my local LUG currently has a membership ranging in age from
>>>>> 14 to 76.  (So far as we know.  There may, of course, be the odd closet
>>>>> 9 year old or 85 year old. ;-)  )  Why do groups of people need to be
>>>>> all the same age for people to "belong"??
>>>>>
>>>>> Lisi
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>>>> They don't Lisi, and that's the point.
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>>> Yes - that is the point I was making.  Willy had said that he felt he
>>> didn't belong because you and I are so ancient.
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>>> Lisi
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>> Willy should enjoy it now. Youth is way to short.
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>> Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.
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>> A friend of mine say it's not the age that matters it's the mileage. I'm
>> one owner high mileage.
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>> I'm like an old broke down horse. Been rode hard and put away wet.
>>
>> The object is not to arrive at the pearly gates in perfect, pristine,
>> condition. The object is to slide in head first, broke down, burned out,
>> used up, and screaming "Man what a ride!"
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> You have it precisely, Billy. >
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>> You know, it's funny. I don't really feel old in my head [ does that
>> make any sense at all ]. I mean my body is "old" and not able to do as
>> many things as it used to but my brain keeps saying "you can do it" but
>> the body says "not on your nelly". And when my brain does talk my body
>> into doing something I pay for it for three or four days afterwards.
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> Boy do I know that one!  But I keep trying anyway.  It does help keep me out 
> of the bars.  But the resultant aches & pains can sure screw up what should 
> be a good nights sleep when you are certifiably tired.
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Gotta love those Loritabs.

> ATM I'm building a woodworkers workbench, one intended to stay put when I 
> clamp a piece of cherry to it and lay into it with a Bailey #7 jointer plane, 
> which will leave that cherry optically flat IF the supporting bench is good.  
> If its not solid, and allows the wood to move, then all bets are off and the 
> piece is likely ruined.  You don't want to ruin too much of it at $16 a 
> bd/ft.
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I've got a sixty eight foot Rohn 25 tower and another 50 footer to put 
up. We just got through dumping 7 eighty pound bags of concrete into the 
hole for the big one [ I'll pay for that tomorrow ]. That will cure for 
a few days while we get anchor posts set and ready for both. I have 
twenty feet of the big one up and will have to climb and set the other 
sections one by one. We can hinge the smaller one and put up thirty feet 
in one go but that still leaves two sections to have to climb up and 
set.. Then I get the fun of climbing up and setting all the antennas. 
Four or five hours of climbing the tower and I'm half crippled up for a 
couple days.

Wanna trade jobs?

I SURE wish I was Willy's age again.

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>> Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
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