Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:14:52 +0100, D wrote:

 
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:08:28 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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Pancreatic cancer is really nasty.  We've lost a couple of friends
that way.  It presents no symptoms until you're already toast. The few
cases I've heard of where people survived were due to a surgeon being
in the area for something else and spotting it.

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I talked to my neighbor and he said he was ready to retire and do some
serious fishing. It was about two months after retirement and he was
dead.
I talked to his son and they had managed to get in a last fishing trip.
He'd started chemo but it did little good if not killing him faster.

 
Was he very career oriented? I have a theory that many who are overly
career oriented and place their full identity and value in their job and
career, cannot handle forced retirement. When deprived of their jobs and
careers, they just whither and die.

Not that I am aware of. I was never sure exactly what he did but it was
blue collar. Most blue collar workers see retirement as the carrot at the
end of the tunnel even if it doesn't turn out as sweet as anticipated. My
father was going to retire when I graduated college and also looked
forward to a lot of fishing and hunting. He died in January of my senior
year.