Your new housing plan sounds great. I assume Corona is a Tucson suburb?
And your son's house is in the same area? It's nice to have kids with
their act together. Half of mine are doing well. I guess that's better
than none. I think a no mortgage retirement is a good idea. I will
probably try to do the same, but not yet. I'll probably work for as
long as someone will have me. I don't know what I'd do all day.
Why are they getting married in Toronto? Is that where her folks are
from. I would guess you'd be going. You should stop off here. I thought
I told you where I live. It's a town named Bloomfield Hills. It's a
suburb about 20 miles north of Detroit. It's sort of on the way to
Detroit. Some flights stop over here. Marlene would love to meet you.
We'll feed you good and send you over the border. We're also about 20
miles north of Windsor, Ontario, which is across the river from
Detroit.
I'm glad you like the gardens and the house. I've been lucky with work
and real estate. Bought my first house when I was 22 and sold it two
years later for 50% more. It was in Chicago's Beverly. I'll probably
stop to see it this weekend. Bought my second house with the money and
sold it three years later for 100% more. Partly just being in the right
place at the right time. Went to New York and made another good real
estate deal. Then I sort of stumbled into advertising. I was making
peanuts as a magazine writer, when someone tugged on my sleeve and told
me to come work at their agency. It's been good, but as I told you
before, it's a business where they don't want you when you get old. But
yes, I've done well. The house is worth about 700, but I still owe
around 300. I used a lot of the equity to pay college tuition. I'll
sell it one of these days and buy something much cheaper. Perhaps in
Virginia or North Carolina. I don't know exactly what I'll do. But I'm
embarrassed now that I sent you the pictures. rI should have shot the
flower beds without showing the house. In retrospect, it was kind of
crass, but I didn't give it much thought at the time. Marlene is able
to keep it up because she doesn't have a job, and she's a hard worker.
Now she's taking care of my mother too. She's pretty amazing. I do
almost all the yard work. I just barely keep up with the weeding, but I
try. The back garden is my pride and joy. I'll send you a pic of that
soon. No house :-).
Off to Chicago tomorrow. Good luck with your garage sale. And good luck
with your new venture.
Happy Friday,
Paul
On Jul 14, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
On 15 Jul 2005 at 2:38, Ethical Web wrote:
That gives you the benefit of experience then. I suppose that most
of the
things that I'm struggling to understand (like f/stops) were learned
long ago by
slr users.
Experience does give prior SLR users an advantage but we all had to
learn it
sometime. It really depends on how complicated you wish to make it,
the basic
principles apply to all types of photography and are easily absorbed
by even
the most resilient brain if presented in a well distilled and logical
fashion.
I've seen plenty of great books and internet sites that present the
basics in
understandable terms. I'll see if I can find some links for you.
Cheers,
Rob Studdert
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