Thanks! Good!
I thought
I tried that this morning, guess not. Sometimes it's hard to teach an old dog
new tricks. :)
Larry,
I'm always looking for an excuse to share one of my
favorite life lessons, and you've given me
one.
When we lived back east and I was still active in
Amateur Radio, I had a good friend named Carl Felt. Carl held the call sign
N2XJ. He was retired from the US Navy with the rank of Captain, and he was as
fine a gentleman and as fine a Morse code operator as anyone could ever know. He
passed away a year or so ago at the age of
91.
When personal computers first came on the scene, Carl,
being a young seventy-something at the time, decided that he needed to
learn more about them. So in addition to reading everything he could get his
hands on about personal computers, he went out and bought one, and proceeded to
disassemble it and rebuild it. And yes, it worked upon
reassembly.
I visited his radio shack/workshop while he was in the
midst of this project, and I made some comment about all the effort he was
putting into this. He replied, "Steve, you know it's true what they say: 'You
can't teach an old dog new tricks'. But I've figured out the secret -- as long
as you keep learning new tricks, then you can't be an old
dog!"
I think if Carl were alive and well today, he'd be out
there hunting caches with us.
Steve
Team Tierra
Buena
Making Geocaching harder than it ought to
be...