[Elecraft] Blues [OT]

[Edward R Cole]

Wayne and all:

Hmm at age 68 is not the same as I was at 48 (more aches from 
arthritis which do not go away).  I am actually ten lbs lighter (180 
on 6-foot frame) and walk 5+ miles/day on concrete floors at my job 
at a "big box" store as sales assoc.  I get to sit down 3 times 
during the 8-hour shift!  But ibuprofen is my friend getting thru 
this.  After putting in 32/hour weeks for 4 months it is no better 
for the exercise so some things are not reversable.  My Dad lived to 
91 and my Mom is 89; had two aunts live into their mid-nineties so 
longevity is in the genes, but not necessarily full mobility or lack 
of aches and pains.  Recently noticed my vision beginning to move 
away from short sightedness  so that things are in full focus now at 
about 3-feet (time for new glasses).  I used to be able to go without 
glasses for close-work.

Trully? It is still 100's in the SF area?  We will be coming down to 
SanJose for a conference Oct. 18-20 and figured on 70's wx.  It was 
26F two nights ago up here (today 48 overcast) and leaves are about 
all on the ground.  I mowed the lawn the last time for the year a 
week ago (time to switch the lawn tractor to the 
snowblower).  Anchorage had first snow last weekend (we only had 
frost).  Early winter looks possible this year at 60.675 N latitude 
(usually it hits by Haloween).

73, Ed - KL7UW