A Conversation with Elizabeth
2010
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From:          Larry
To:            Elizabeth
Date:          Friday, December 27, 2012
Subject:       Question
 
Elizabeth,

   Thank you for writing.  Yes, I turned the big 60 although I don’t feel like I’m 60.  I do find that I don’t have as much endurance as I used to, can’t bike as long, hike as far or play racquetball with as much vigor but I still do these things.  We’ll see if that continues as I move into the 60’s.  No, I don’t really mention UCF, I still think of myself as a Florida Gator at heart.    

I have done a number of therapeutic workshops.  Doug Keller has a five session  series on different parts of the body and I’ve done the neck/shoulders and hips sessions.  I keep wanting to do his session on knees.  I’ve have done one with Martin Kirk and another with Todd Norian.  The key to safe yoga without injury is alignment, alignment and alignment.  Without proper alignment you can easily injury yourself or make an existing injury worse.  With proper alignment it can make injuries better.  Yoga really helped my knee injury from playing racquetball.    

My parents are not doing so well so I’ve been trying to get back to G’ville more often to visit.  Dad’s is now 86 and has kidney failure and goes to dialysis three times a week.  Even with that though he does pretty well and is always busy with something in the garage out outside.  Mom on the other hand has Parkinson’s and is to the point she can’t get up without help and is either in bed or a wheelchair.  I’m expecting she will have to be put in nursing home this coming year.   

The trip with my brother, ahh yes…   he’s been bugging me for years to go on a vacation with him but I’ve been hesitant to do so.  Sometimes he gets off on crazy ideas and won’t let it go to the point the family has to get up and leave the room.  I learned years ago to never ask about the post office as he will go on and on about how screwed up it is.  So he asked me earlier this year about doing a vacation with him and I said I’ve wanted to go to New Zealand thinking he would find it too far and expensive but he said sure and found a 14 day boat cruse that has 7 stops at different ports in New Zealand.  It looks like it will be a lot of fun, one of the stops is the Hobbit Shire movie set.  We leave on Jan. 10th.  

No plans for getting married.  I dated a couple of women for a few months each in the past few years but we both decided it was best to just be friends.   

I plan to work for another 5 or 6 years before retiring which then I’ll sell my house here and probably move back to Florida.  I figure I’ll clear $300 K on the house and then be able to buy a place in G’Ville, have it paid for and money left over. That along with my retirement funds and SS (if it’still around) I should be fine.  

New cars are really nice but the thought of car payments again makes me put it off as long as possible.  I bought my current Ford Explorer back in 2005 and only just turned 55,0000 miles on it so I’ll be good for a few more years.  I really like the Subaru’s but find them too small for what I need.   I’ve been really thinking about buying an all electric car like the Nissan Leaf which I would use for the commute but keep the Explorer around for trips.  

Talking about old teachers,  I had a woman ask to be my friend on Facebook and her name seem familiar but I couldn’t quite place it.   After a while I figured out she was my 7th grade Social Studies teacher.  She was a really great teacher and it was one of my most remembered classes.  She ran across something on my website about the class and looked me up in Facebook.  

Well it was good to hear from you and I hope that 2013 will be a good year for you.
 
Larry

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