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4 Apr 2007
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before it's gone.......
Everybody who I talk to from HU says exactly the same advice as you've got Stevie, Go Now!!! (but not yet -see below)
I'm hitting 60 this year and have had a BIG life change that shook me to the core. All the years of planning, all the training, all the scrimping and saving for that armchair, pipe and slippers, gone in a few weeks courtesy of Big C. Now, alone, I look around and see that tomorrow sometimes never comes. I took chances, changed jobs many times and careers 4 times to better myself and get more enjoyment from my job, in the end it is ashes in my mouth, but it did rock and roll sometimes.  . My eldest brother on the other hand had one job for 35years, now sits in with his pipe and slippers watching mindless quiz games on tv  and says, 'I wish I had had interesting jobs like you? FFS he thinks my boring life was exciting!!!!!!!!!
Check this vision of mine for the not to distant future.
At last a good nights sleep in a decent neighborhood, boy if your friends could have seen some of the sights you've witnessed these last few months on your trip around the world. Some people still don't speak English for God sake, despite the Microsoft money being poured in! Well your mobile phone/tv/translator took care of those few aboriginols who refuse to learn Western Speak.(c) microsoft. Still the Ford/BMW Electrobike purred along without a hitch. The solar panels and odd municipal recharge kept her going all the way. Suzie, your Garmin Guide, never set a foot wrong, every direction was just perfect, and those Exxon Lodges seemed to have been sited as if they knew the range of the bike along the Google South American Touring Trail. The views of the Andies, breathtaking, and because you timed the trip so right, only a few thousand other moto tourists around you each day. Now, when your boss asks you the scariest part of your trip, he'll be amazed at your ability to handle emergencies, the way that download of your passport wouldn't load in Thailand would be enough to scare the shyt out of anyone.........
Go soon before you get dragged under by mediocrity - but not just yet - let me have some of the world to myself first.
And remember, the man who gives you a job is not thinking of you, he's using you and thinking of himself, so what you gonna look at, the grindstone or the mountains?
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