[AccessD] For Money or Love

Hi Arthur

Thanks for letting us know ... I had noticed you recently have been
absent in periods but thought that was due to a busy project or
similar. 

I'm impressed how you handle this last "project" of yours; on the
other hand - given your deep experience you so often have exposed here
- how could it be different?

Well, this day certainly turned out differently than expected. Should
you feel we - the long time listers to whom I humbly count myself -
can be of any assistance regarding your Access-related work, I'm sure
you can count us in. On the other hand I wouldn't be surprised if you
already have arrangements settled for this.

I hope you'll have some really nice days in Ireland and Paris, not
only revisiting known places but having new experiences as well.

/gustav


> 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