[Az-Geocaching] The Truth About Old Dogs
Team Tierra Buena
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Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:47:14 -0700
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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.
Steve
Team Tierra Buena
Making Geocaching harder than it ought to be...
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