Thanks for the inspiring story, Steve!
Trisha
Prescott


On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, "Team Tierra Buena" wrote:




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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.
SteveTeam Tierra 
BuenaMaking Geocaching harder than it ought to 
be...
 


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