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Steve Dresser <[log in to unmask]>
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For blind ham radio operators <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 22:56:03 -0400
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Pat,

I'm lucky enough to be retired and enjoying it.  I'm also lucky enough to be 
the oldest and the youngest employee in a small business where age is never 
an issue.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 20:15
Subject: Re: Combo boxes (was digital and analog AM and FM radio compared)


> And you're right Steve; it gets worse and worse!!
> My current job is a kind of post-retirement job - I am the oldest guy
> in the joint and my boss is younger than a couple of our kids . .
> But the best part of it is that I don't feel that old (mostly)!!
> PatAt 06:21 PM 8/28/2007, you wrote:
>>Tom,
>>
>>I had a similar experience last week.  I realized that my wife's student's
>>mom is a year younger than my daughter.  Man, that's such a jolt!
>>
>>Steve
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 18:42
>>Subject: Re: Combo boxes (was digital and analog AM and FM radio compared)
>>
>>
>> >    Steve:
>> >
>> > I really start feeling old when I have the children of college students
>> > who
>> > had me 20 years ago.  Doesn't happen too often yet, but more and more 
>> > of
>> > late.
>> >
>> > 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 11:31 PM
>> > Subject: Re: Combo boxes (was digital and analog AM and FM radio 
>> > compared)
>> >
>> >
>> >> Tom,
>> >>
>> >> Kids can make you feel even older sometimes.  Upon finding out from my
>> >> wife
>> >> that I was about to turn 35, my six-year-old daughter responded
>> >> enthusiastically, "Hey Mom, that's half of seventy!"
>> >>
>> >> And it only gets worse...
>> >>
>> >> Steve
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 19:34
>> >> Subject: Re: Combo boxes (was digital and analog AM and FM radio
>> >> compared)
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>    Yeah, Steve, but I tell you:  In the teaching profession, there 
>> >>> are
>> >>> those days when I feel at least 61 years old!
>> >>>
>> >>> Oh well, .like you say:  Age is generally an overall matter of 
>> >>> attitude
>> >>> more
>> >>> than anything else.
>> >>>
>> >>> 73 from Tom Behler:   KB8TYJ
>> >>>
>> >>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>> From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:02 PM
>> >>> Subject: Re: Combo boxes (was digital and analog AM and FM radio
>> >>> compared)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>> Tom, you young kid!  I've got you beat by seven years!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Steve
>> >>>>
>> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>> From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>>> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 21:29
>> >>>> Subject: Re: Combo boxes (was digital and analog AM and FM radio
>> >>>> compared)
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>    Pat:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> I think I looked you up on QRZ once, and yup, you are older than 
>> >>>>> me.
>> >>>>> (grin)
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Let me just say that, as you can find out on qrz, I was born in the
>> >>>>> great
>> >>>>> year of 1954.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>>> From: "Pat Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 8:29 PM
>> >>>>> Subject: Re: Combo boxes (was digital and analog AM and FM radio
>> >>>>> compared)
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>>I don't think Tom is as old as we are Steve!!
>> >>>>>> Pat, K9JAUAt 06:45 PM 8/26/2007, you wrote:
>> >>>>>>>Tom,
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>And here I thought the saying was, "So much to learn, so much to
>> >>>>>>>forget."
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>Steve
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>----- Original Message -----
>> >>>>>>>From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>>>>>>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>>>>>>Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 10:05
>> >>>>>>>Subject: Re: Combo boxes (was digital and analog AM and FM radio
>> >>>>>>>compared)
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> >    Steve:
>> >>>>>>> >
>> >>>>>>> > What do they say:  "So much to learn, and so little time!".
>> >>>>>>> >
>> >>>>>>> > Thanks again for the combo box suggestion.  It really helps!
>> >>>>>>> >
>> >>>>>>> > 73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ
>> >>>>>>> >
>> >>>>>>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>>>>> > From: "Steve Dresser" <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>>>>>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> >>>>>>> > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 10:34 PM
>> >>>>>>> > Subject: Re: Combo boxes (was digital and analog AM and FM 
>> >>>>>>> > radio
>> >>>>>>> > compared)
>> >>>>>>> >
>> >>>>>>> >
>> >>>>>>> >> Tom,
>> >>>>>>> >>
>> >>>>>>> >> I hate to tell you how long it took me to remember to use that
>> >>>>>>> >> technique,
>> >>>>>>> >> and how many partially filled forms I left hanging in 
>> >>>>>>> >> cyber-space
>> >>>>>>> >> because
>> >>>>>>> >> I
>> >>>>>>> >> didn't remember it.  It was one of the first things I learned
>> >>>>>>> >> about
>> >>>>>>> >> using
>> >>>>>>> >> JAWS, but it just got buried in all the other things I had to
>> >>>>>>> >> absorb.
>> >>>>>>> >> I'm
>> >>>>>>> >> glad it solved your problem.
>> >>>>>>> >>
>> >>>>>>> >> Steve
>> >>>>>>> >
>> >>>>>>> >
>> >>>>>>> >
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>
>
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