22 Dec 11 16:00, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
      
      
    RW>> I took a clock apart once. It wasn't working and I wanted to know if   
    RW>> I could fix it. It ended up in the trash.   
      
    MH> You win some and you lose some.  :)  Not everything I have tried to   
    MH> repair was a success.  Many items ended up in the trash.   
      
   I didn't want to be a clock mechanic anyway... 8^)   
      
    MH> I did have luck with an old color TV that my parents had in the   
    MH> trash.  I pulled it out of the can when I was 16, and after being   
    MH> shocked several times while working on it (damn tubes), was able to   
    MH> get it working again. I have no idea how, but it started working.   
      
   I'm familiar with that shocking bit. My dad always bought the same name   
   brand TVs because they had a lid that allowed him to access those tubes.   
      
   Dunno why as the TV worked perfectly, but he had the back off making some   
   kind of adjustment and he got slammed up against the wall behind him...he   
   had touched that big fat wire that feeds the CRT and it gave him quite the   
   wallop.   
      
    RW>> Lots of things I'd like to go back and collect...my 56 Chevy, when   
    RW>> it was brand new...gold when it was less than $40/oz, etc...   
      
    MH> Me too.  We would all be rich and retired early if we could predict   
    MH> the future.  I would have done the 90s .com's, get out of the stock   
    MH> market in late 1999, buy loads of houses, sell all them in 2004.   
    MH> Then buy oil stocks.  Sell all them and buy gold.   
      
    MH> Always a day late...   
      
   I never wanted to be rich, just comfortable with nothing owed to anybody.   
      
   We're free and clear except for a mortgage and the nice mortgage holder   
   got bought up by Wells Fargo and I hate those people. If they harrass me   
   one more time about my payment being late (it's due on the 15th and   
   always mailed by the 10th), I'm going to pay off this place and get them   
   out of my life.   
      
      
                   R\%/itt   
      
      
     ,,,By the time you find greener pastures, you can't climb the fence!   
      
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