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From: scott
Subject: It's quiet
Date: 4 Jun 2015 06:51:24
Message: <55702dac$1@news.povray.org>
What's happened?

https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=povray%2C%20pov%20ray&cmpt=q&tz=


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: It's quiet
Date: 4 Jun 2015 07:11:30
Message: <55703262$1@news.povray.org>
On 04/06/2015 11:51, scott wrote:
> What's happened?
>
> https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=povray%2C%20pov%20ray&cmpt=q&tz=

Andrew got a life?

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     Stephen


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From: scott
Subject: Re: It's quiet
Date: 4 Jun 2015 08:04:17
Message: <55703ec1$1@news.povray.org>
>> What's happened?
>>
>> https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=povray%2C%20pov%20ray&cmpt=q&tz=
>>
>
> Andrew got a life?

Yes, most of that chart was probably him :-)


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: It's quiet
Date: 4 Jun 2015 08:32:55
Message: <55704577$1@news.povray.org>
On 04/06/2015 13:04, scott wrote:
>>> What's happened?
>>>
>>> https://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore#q=povray%2C%20pov%20ray&cmpt=q&tz=
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Andrew got a life?
>
> Yes, most of that chart was probably him :-)
>
>
That and replies. :-)

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     Stephen


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From: scott
Subject: Re: It's quiet
Date: 4 Jun 2015 09:57:48
Message: <5570595c$1@news.povray.org>
>>> Andrew got a life?
>>
>> Yes, most of that chart was probably him :-)
>>
>>
> That and replies. :-)

You saying I need to get a life? :-)


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: It's quiet
Date: 4 Jun 2015 12:12:25
Message: <557078e9$1@news.povray.org>
On 04/06/2015 14:57, scott wrote:
>>>> Andrew got a life?
>>>
>>> Yes, most of that chart was probably him :-)
>>>
>>>
>> That and replies. :-)
>
> You saying I need to get a life? :-)
>
>
>
You can borrow mine. I'm not using it ATM. ;-)

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     Stephen


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From: Orchid Win7 v1
Subject: Re: It's quiet
Date: 4 Jun 2015 15:40:48
Message: <5570a9c0$1@news.povray.org>
On 04/06/2015 12:11 PM, Stephen wrote:
> Andrew got a life?

Hardly.

For the past month, I've been tending my grandfather, who has suddenly 
been hospitalised. Last time I saw him, he was a regular guy. Now we 
can't speak, can't walk, can't move some of his limbs, can't do much of 
anything, really.

It's rather frightening to think that some day soon, it will be me 
sitting in that hospital bed, knowing that the end is near, and that 
there's nothing that anybody can do about it. Damn, I've wasted my life!

The daft thing is... my grandfather himself seems to be the only person 
in the family who's *not* terribly upset about all this. For somebody 
who now can't do anything, he seems remarkably cheerful...


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: It's quiet
Date: 4 Jun 2015 16:12:26
Message: <5570b12a$1@news.povray.org>
On 04/06/2015 20:40, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> On 04/06/2015 12:11 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> Andrew got a life?
>
> Hardly.
>
> For the past month, I've been tending my grandfather, who has suddenly
> been hospitalised. Last time I saw him, he was a regular guy. Now we
> can't speak, can't walk, can't move some of his limbs, can't do much of
> anything, really.
>

Sorry to hear that.

> It's rather frightening to think that some day soon, it will be me
> sitting in that hospital bed, knowing that the end is near, and that
> there's nothing that anybody can do about it. Damn, I've wasted my life!
>
Well it does come to us all. So do, what you think you would regret not 
having done. While you are still young(ish).


> The daft thing is... my grandfather himself seems to be the only person
> in the family who's *not* terribly upset about all this. For somebody
> who now can't do anything, he seems remarkably cheerful...

The same thing happened to a grand uncle of mine.
I got the impression that he was quite happy to finish the course.

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     Stephen


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: It's quiet
Date: 5 Jun 2015 01:14:39
Message: <5571303f$1@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 04 Jun 2015 20:40:55 +0100, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> On 04/06/2015 12:11 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> Andrew got a life?
> 
> Hardly.
> 
> For the past month, I've been tending my grandfather, who has suddenly
> been hospitalised. Last time I saw him, he was a regular guy. Now we
> can't speak, can't walk, can't move some of his limbs, can't do much of
> anything, really.

Very sorry to hear this, Andrew.

> It's rather frightening to think that some day soon, it will be me
> sitting in that hospital bed, knowing that the end is near, and that
> there's nothing that anybody can do about it. Damn, I've wasted my life!

Hopefully not next week.  But as Stephen says, do things now that you 
don't want to look back on and regret not doing.

> The daft thing is... my grandfather himself seems to be the only person
> in the family who's *not* terribly upset about all this. For somebody
> who now can't do anything, he seems remarkably cheerful...

That's not uncommon, actually.  I was fortunate enough to speak to my 
father the weekend before he died - he was generally cheerful and 
talkative (he'd been diagnosed - incorrectly, it turns out - with 
Alzheimer’s; he had a form of dementia of sorts, but it wasn't what 
everyone thought it was), even though he was in the hospital.

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw


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From: scott
Subject: Re: It's quiet
Date: 5 Jun 2015 02:49:20
Message: <55714670$1@news.povray.org>
> For the past month, I've been tending my grandfather, who has suddenly
> been hospitalised. Last time I saw him, he was a regular guy. Now we
> can't speak, can't walk, can't move some of his limbs, can't do much of
> anything, really.

Sorry to hear that. It's surprising how fast things can change, a 
similar thing happened with my grandmother a couple of years ago. If 
it's any consolation then at least you are able to be there with him 
regularly.

> It's rather frightening to think that some day soon, it will be me
> sitting in that hospital bed,

Some day soon? What on Earth are you planning on doing!!


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