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Baseball cap...tape on yellow shooters from Yorktown
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Per Radey Shouman:
Excellent advice -- that I won't follow, having got by so far without ever intentionally sticking in my eye. There is a downside that I neglected to mention: every so often, I can't get a contact out of my eye. Sometimes because I took a wave in the face and it rolled up, other times because it tore upon attempted removal and the pieces became impossible to get at, and other times just because it does not want to come out. Not such a problem if you can get to somebody for assistance. Definitely a problem (and, for me, a shoe-stopper) if you are alone out in the middle of nowhere..... but I'm never out in the middle of nowhere. -- Pete Cresswell |
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Doug Landau considered Tue, 10 Jan 2017
09:03:53 -0800 (PST) the perfect time to write: On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 6:04:39 AM UTC-8, (PeteCresswell) wrote: Per John B.: both my grandfathers died that way. Got up in the morning, ate a good lunch, laid down for a bit of a nap after lunch and never woke up. My daughter's German uncle died about as well as I can imagine. Early nineties, similar scenario: drank one last beer, closed his eyes, and the lights went out for good. That's how I want to die. Peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandpa. Not screaming like the passengers in his car. I knew it was only a matter of time before someone came out with that one |
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:01:19 +0700, John B
wrote: On Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:01:27 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote: Per Phil Lee: The fit ones tend to go downhill fast, once they drop off the fitness level they are accustomed to maintaining. My grandfather went from running a minimum of 5 miles every morning, rain, shine, sleet, snow or fog, to his grave in about 18 months after breaking his hip badly. A book on aging that I read a bunch of years ago described "Normal Death" as being pretty much that: good functionality right up to a few months from the end, then rapid deterioration and death. The book said that it has become more-and-more common and will increase in frequency as people learn to and are able to take proper care of themselves. both my grandfathers died that way. Got up in the morning, ate a good lunch, laid down for a bit of a nap after lunch and never woke up. I'm not eager to join them but it is probably as good a way to go as any. Better than many ways to go. Bumper sticker wisdom: "I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers." |
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:03:53 -0800 (PST), Doug Landau
wrote: On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 6:04:39 AM UTC-8, (PeteCresswell) wrote: Per John B.: both my grandfathers died that way. Got up in the morning, ate a good lunch, laid down for a bit of a nap after lunch and never woke up. My daughter's German uncle died about as well as I can imagine. Early nineties, similar scenario: drank one last beer, closed his eyes, and the lights went out for good. That's how I want to die. Peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandpa. Not screaming like the passengers in his car. Ah, ya beat me to it. Too bad I didn't see this before my post... |
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On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 4:02:09 PM UTC-8, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:01:19 +0700, John B wrote: On Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:01:27 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote: Per Phil Lee: The fit ones tend to go downhill fast, once they drop off the fitness level they are accustomed to maintaining. My grandfather went from running a minimum of 5 miles every morning, rain, shine, sleet, snow or fog, to his grave in about 18 months after breaking his hip badly. A book on aging that I read a bunch of years ago described "Normal Death" as being pretty much that: good functionality right up to a few months from the end, then rapid deterioration and death. The book said that it has become more-and-more common and will increase in frequency as people learn to and are able to take proper care of themselves. both my grandfathers died that way. Got up in the morning, ate a good lunch, laid down for a bit of a nap after lunch and never woke up. I'm not eager to join them but it is probably as good a way to go as any. Better than many ways to go. Bumper sticker wisdom: "I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers." Okay. Now tell me what you think about Ronnie Lang |
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:07:07 -0800 (PST), Doug Landau
wrote: On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 4:02:09 PM UTC-8, Tim McNamara wrote: Bumper sticker wisdom: "I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers." Okay. Now tell me what you think about Ronnie Lang The saxophonist with Hoagy Carmichael, Les Brown, etc.? (Jazz fan here) |
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On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 3:59:27 PM UTC-8, Tim McNamara wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:07:07 -0800 (PST), Doug Landau wrote: On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at 4:02:09 PM UTC-8, Tim McNamara wrote: Bumper sticker wisdom: "I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers." Okay. Now tell me what you think about Ronnie Lang The saxophonist with Hoagy Carmichael, Les Brown, etc.? (Jazz fan here) Oh wow. Ted Nash too. And here I thought he was an olympic rower and coach at Penn. |
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"(PeteCresswell)" writes:
Per Radey Shouman: Excellent advice -- that I won't follow, having got by so far without ever intentionally sticking in my eye. There is a downside that I neglected to mention: every so often, I can't get a contact out of my eye. Sometimes because I took a wave in the face and it rolled up, other times because it tore upon attempted removal and the pieces became impossible to get at, and other times just because it does not want to come out. Not such a problem if you can get to somebody for assistance. Definitely a problem (and, for me, a shoe-stopper) if you are alone out in the middle of nowhere..... but I'm never out in the middle of nowhere. You have plainly missed your true calling as a salesman of contact lenses. My attitudes were formed back in the dark days of expensive, hard contact lenses. One of my first exposures to the idea was in a scuba class, in a pool. A student lost a contact while practicing to clear her mask. At that time I think a set of lenses cost more or less what a pair of glasses did, so the whole class stationed themselves around the drain until one sharp-eyed person snagged the contact lens on it's way out. -- |
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