[rollei_list] Re: Update: Your Loving List Owner
- From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:30:17 -0700
Marc,
And I have been accused of being a pack rat!
You must have a dozen TURMON monoculars. Every
time I tried to buy one, you outbid me,
Wanna sell me one?
Jerry
Marc James Small wrote:
> I got the computer in Roanoke working almost as
> it should, so I should not have a break in the
> Friday ADMIN postings hereafter. I will be
> driving to Roanoke this Friday next for a brief
> stop to pick up some things and to shower before
> heading up to Lexington for a dinner meeting, and
> then shall be back in Richmond either very late
> Friday or on Saturday, as the alcohol consumption warrants.
>
> The Lares and Penates of the household have been
> moved: my Rolleiflex gear seems to have made the
> move decently, and I found my Duonar and Magnar
> and Magnar mask earlier today. I am still
> uncovering the swathe of my LTM lenses, bit by
> bit, but these all seem to be there, though metal
> lenses are HEAVY to lug upstairs! My autographed
> copy of Douglas MacArthur's memoirs, my
> great-great-grandfather's school book from
> Scotland in 1820, my parents telephone registers,
> my father's dress saber, the lens I have from the
> Zeiss Lens Collection, and the block of wood from
> the original hull of USS CONSTITUTION all made it
> down here safely. My references are a mess and I
> have still to put my collection of macro lenses
> and the like in order. But we are here, and it is just a matter of time.
>
> All my binoculars are down here now. I am living
> seven miles from the North American headquarters
> of Zeiss Sports Optics, so I guess binocular
> service will not be an issue, albeit I almost
> never need service on these guys: they just keep
> on keeping on. My TURMON set hasn't surfaced
> yet, but that is just a matter of digging deeper
> into the four plastic bins in which most of the
> cameras were brought -- it is a bit of an
> archaeologic dig, peeling back the towels to find
> what lies beneath. I did find my Leica TM
> cameras AND their accouterments, such as the
> Geiss Kontakt for my IIIc, and that is a bit of a relief.
>
> I've still not set up my telescopes -- I am in a
> grand dark-sky environment but our weather has been rainy of late.
>
> The local PBS and NPR stations are horrible but I
> can do the feed from Roanoke for the radio
> station, and I still get one Red Green show a
> week down here, in place of the two I enjoyed in
> Roanoke. Ah, well. There is much more to living
> in the mountains than just great air and clement
> weather, and Richmond is definitely a hot, low,
> and muggy town of few redeeming qualities.
>
> But, on the upside, I am six miles from Fort Lee
> and so we are now doing our grocery shopping at
> the Commissary. It all balances out in the end, I guess.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
>
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