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?Andy,

Thank you for your vote of confidence. I retired in 2015 after 44 years of showing up for work (meaning family practice in northern Michigan). And someone even paid me for showing up. In reality I never worked a day in my life. Every job I had I found a way to make it fun. Ham radio made it enjoyable even in the trying moments.

Doing research in this area (seeing what one’s brain wants to see) would be a neat research topic and I am sure someone has gotten their PhD researching it. Last night my grandson was searching for a certain part in a mess of Lego pieces. I looked and didn’t see it either. Then I moved the bunch of pieces around on the table and the hunted piece just jumped out at both of us. Sometimes a different set of eyes or different lighting or just approaching the search from a different direction or angle makes a difference. Time does too. Coming back tomorrow everything looks different with a rested brain. Just did a Google AI check and it came back with a very good description of this tooic.

My wife has a different set of eyes and brain connections. She would have made a good detective. She can walk in a room, do a quick look, and leave and describe every feature. But she is “interested” in what is in someone’s new home, furniture, or whatever. I see a room, a place to sit down , feel the temperature (I am always cold), and the person I am visiting. Just re iterating: we see what we are looking for or are interested in. And the darned grocery companies. They occasionally change the color of the box and that throws me off. Or move the product to a different shelf or aisle. Really throws me off.

And the big disaster one night. A new Chinese radio (back 10 years or so before they discovered how cheep it was to provide polarity protection). Late at night. Connected the battery power. RED is positive +++++ isn’t it? Unless the vendor at the swap who sold batteries put a red price sticker at the negative - - - - pole. Magic smoke and smell produced. Ha!

Happy New Year to all. Hope I made some laugh or at least smile. Remember when we were kids? We laughed and smiled so often. My observation is that many of us now find that the stiff tired muscles in our body, especially our faces make it much more difficult to do the same now. It takes practice. But it spreads like a tired yawn. And makes everyone involved feel better. (Seen in a family card game last night.) Smiling is GOOD MEDICINE!

Be the REASON someone smiles today.

Dave K8WPE