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[P3D Tim Stabler <TSTABLER@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I want to take this opportunity to wish everyoine on the net a very 
merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!  I, like many others, really 
enjoy reading the various offerings of this group and, even if there 
are topics I really could care less about, I read them and try to 
digest them as I may be very interested in that topic in the future.
Let's be realistic, how many times have you thought you could care 
less about something only to have it a major topic in your life in a 
few months or years???

I also want to take this opportunity to apologize to everyone who 
Emailed, wrote or called me and who I never got back to.  As I might 
have said earlier, I took a fall from my roof to the asphalt drive, 
about 12-14 feet.  Luckily, I landed on my left butt (very purple), 
my left arm (very purple) and right head (32 stitches)---in that 
order, although I remember nothing of the fall.  My 11-year old 
daught heard the crash and came out to find me on the driveway and 
told me I was bleeding.  I said no and she asked what the red stuff 
was in the drive.  I said I guess I was and laid back down.  I have 
no remembrance of that either.  She did call a friend whose Dad is a 
doctor and he came over before the paramedics got there and figured 
I was not too bad.  But I did get a night in the hospital for 
observation.  I also spent a week at home but had to get back for the 
finish of the semester and finals.  Since I also managed to break 
the floating ribs on one side, I have not been too active in anything.

Needless to say, the last few weeks have been a "blur".  To the 
person at the American Museum of Natural History, I do have the 
Realist manual and am getting the slide mounting book next month.  
Thanks for your offer.  For the people who responded about my getting 
a Leica, thanks very much.  I did get a book from Pacific Rim about 
the IIIC.  That and the phone call from Boston have got me going on 
that front.  Last Wednesday, I did join the Chicago Stereo Club.  I 
was going to do that in November but never made that meeting.  I 
don't klnow where Dr. T would put me.  I do shoot perhaps 30 or more 
rolls a year but not all stereo.  I have only managed about one roll 
of stereo a month but am getting ready to get the Nikon N90S in the 
picture so output should increase on that waterfront.

Thanks all for everything.  I hope you and yours have excellent 
holidays.  I am looking forward to the new year and new fronts to get 
into.

Sorry this has been so long but there were things I wanted to say to 
the group.

Have a Happy!!!!

Tim

Timothy A. Stabler, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
Indiana University Northwest
Gary, IN 46408

(219)980-6718
FAX: (219)980-7125


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