Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Thu Jun 6 06:28:30 CDT 2013
Gustav, Hans and Tina, You are correct. As in Michael Corleone in The Godfather and later The Sopranos, "I keep trying to get out but they keep dragging me back in." In fact you are so prescient. No sooner did I email this than an old client called me to do a couple of enhancements. LOL.You can't get out of this business. I guess that I should just retire the idea of getting out. There's only one way out, and that is death. But what if I'm wrong about that too? A. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Tina Norris Fields < tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote: > Well, dear friend, as long as you don't abandon all of us, I guess it's > okay to stop programming. If you really can, that is. > > I would love to read some of your screenplays, when you are ready to share. > > With as many different passions as many of us have, we simply have to have > several careers in our lifetimes. Good thing to live a long life, so we > can squeeze in time for all of our big interests. > > Best to you, > T > > Tina Norris Fields > tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-**com > 231-322-2787 > > > On 6/6/2013 3:33 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > >> I am formally declaring my retirement from this game of prrograming.. I >> can >> no longer perform the moves that entitle one to make a living in this >> game. >> Therefore I am returning to my original passion, writing screenplays. I >> wrote 35 and sold one it got made, and most of that time I made my living >> bartending, but then I discovered computers and programming and wrote some >> books about the same, but now I'm done with this profession, and I my >> focus >> is in the history of Chinese people in Canada. Of course it begins with >> the >> immigrants invited to build our railroads for peanuts and then forbidden >> to >> invite their wives (actually, they had to pay $500 immigration tax; if you >> want to know how money that is is modern terms, Google can help you; just >> type in "500 CDN dollars 1890" and you will see what a shocking value this >> was. >> >> My research has also uncovered a copy of a splendid (I don't know another >> word for it) poster from the election in Kamloops, BC, by the Liberal >> party, warning of the Yellow Peril. >> >> This is why I have to stop writing software and doing something important. >> >> I'll still attend this salon but my mind is currently on bigger issues. >> >> > ______________________________**_________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/dba-tech<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> > -- Arthur Cell: 647.710.1314 Prediction is difficult, especially of the future. -- Niels Bohr