[AccessD] For Money or Love

Hi Arthur

You're not alone. A colleague across the desk has been given similar notice
- a month without chemo, nine perhaps with. I watch his dimensions go down
daily. He's almost skeletal, yet he eats well. 

Brilliant projects you have set yourself. Every best wish to achieve them
all. 
paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Fuller [mailto:artful at rogers.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:11 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: [AccessD] For Money or Love


IMO this is not required. I just need to be guaranteed my rent and phone
bill and food and cat food and car insurance, etc. Beyond that, I don't
need to accumulate wealth. I just want my obligations covered, and if I
have any time left then it's free.

Not to say I am the measure of anyone but myself, but that's my frame of
reference. I'm writing a screenplay in my off-hours currently. It may
sell; I have sold two previously and thus have an agent who is
interested; but frankly I don't care whether it sells. 

I have some serious medical issues and won't be around much more than a
year. Faced with that kind of news, one confronts "what do you want to
do before you bid adieu"? -- mitigated of course by what can you afford
to do, and so on. I reduced my list to 3 items -- go to Ireland for a
visit, revisit Paris for a couple of days to review the most beautiful
city in the world, and knock out the aforementioned screenplay. Anything
else that I manage is wonderful and gratuitous and gratis.

I do need to make a living for a year or so, but I can do that in about
20 hours a week. The screenplay will take another hour a day minimum.

I confess that I am running out of petrol, however; thus my relative
absence from this list. I can manage it once a week or so, and respond
too late to most messages to be useful and timely. But I feel that I
have made a lot of friends here, despite the fact that I have never met
almost all of you.

"Nothing concentrates the mind like the knowledge that you will hanged
in the morning."

Arthur

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