[WARC] Fw: 3900 Saturdays
Miller
jimarmiller at charter.net
Sat Aug 23 12:26:42 GMT 2008
I've already used up my 3900 Jerry; do I have to borrow some?
Jim
KC0TXJ
----- Original Message ----- =
From: Jerry Brancich =
To: WARC LISTS =
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:31 PM
Subject: [WARC] Fw: 3900 Saturdays
--- On Fri, 8/22/08, Jerry B <6gramp3 at hbci.com> wrote:
From: Jerry B <6gramp3 at hbci.com>
Subject: Fw: 3900 Saturdays
To: "Yahoo" <retvetham at yahoo.com>, "Hotmail" <wa0x at hotmail.com>
Date: Friday, August 22, 2008, 7:29 PM
----- Original Message ----- =
From: Jerry Brancich =
To: 6gramp3 at hbci.com =
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 7:16 PM
Subject: Fw: 3900 Saturdays
--- On Fri, 8/22/08, Jerry <6gramp3 at hbci.com> wrote:
From: Jerry <6gramp3 at hbci.com>
Subject: Fw: 3900 Saturdays
To: "Jerry" <retvetham at yahoo.com>
Cc: wa0x at hotmail.com
Date: Friday, August 22, 2008, 1:48 PM
----- Original Message ----- =
From: Jai and Mary Brancich =
To: Gerald Brancich =
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:28 PM
Subject: Fw: 3900 Saturdays
Subject: 3900 Saturdays ~~#~~
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The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday =
mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first =
to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Eith=
er way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.
A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the=
garage with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in =
the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of tho=
se lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time.
Let me tell you about it.
I turned the dial up into the phone portion=
of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap =
net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendou=
s signal and a golden voice. You know the kind, he sounded like he should =
be in the broadcasting business He was telling whomever he was talking wit=
h something about 'a thousand marbles.' I was intrigued and stopped to lis=
ten to what he had to say.
'Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy=
with your job. I'm sure they pay you well but it's a shame you have to be=
away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow sh=
ould have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet. It's to=
o bad you missed your daughter's dance recital' he continued. 'Let me tell =
you something that has helped me keep my own priorities.' And that's when =
he began to explain his theory of a 'thousand marbles.'
'You see, I sat down one day and did a litt=
le arithmetic. The average person lives about seventy-five years. I know, =
some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy=
-five years.'
'Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I c=
ame up with 3900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person =
has in their entire lifetime. Now, stick with me, Tom, I'm getting to the =
important part. It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about=
all this in any detail', he went on, 'and by that time I had lived through=
over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays. I got to thinking that if I lived to=
be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I =
went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had. I ended up ha=
ving to visit three toy stores to round up 1000 marbles. I took them home =
and put them inside a large, clear plastic container right here in the shac=
k next to my gear.'
'Every Saturday since then, I have taken on=
e marble out and thrown it away. I found that by watching the marbles dimi=
nish, I focused more on the really important things in life.'
'There is nothing like watching your time h=
ere on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight.'
'Now let me tell you one last thing before =
I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast. This mornin=
g, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure that if I mak=
e it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time. And t=
he one thing we can all use is a little more time.'
'It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you sp=
end more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the ba=
nd. This is a 75 Year old Man, K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!'
You could have heard a pin drop on the band=
when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all a lot to think about. =
I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to=
meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter.
Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife u=
p with a kiss. 'C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the kids to breakfast.' '=
What brought this on' she asked with a smile.' 'Oh, nothing special, it's =
just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids. An=
d hey, can we stop at a toy store while we're out? I need to buy some marb=
les.'
A friend sent this to me, so I to you, my f=
riend.
And so, as one smart bear once said...'If y=
ou live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I=
never have to live without you.' - Winnie the Pooh.
Pass this on to all of your FRIENDS, even i=
f it means sending it to the person that sent it to you.
And if you receive this e-mail many times f=
rom many different people, it only means that you have many FRIENDS.
And if you get it but once, do not be disco=
uraged for you will know that you have at least one good friend...
And that would be ME
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