X-Message-Number: 13505 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 10:06:20 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #13499 - #13504 To Dave Pizer: A potential problem: due to my (apparently now vanished) brain tumor, I get Jacksonian seizures. These cause me to floridly lack coordination. One consequence is that I would be a very unsafe driver of a car or even a bicycle. (I actually wrecked 2 cars before the implications of my condition became plain not only to me but to my doctor and my auto insurance broker). A consequence of this condition is that I must either walk (yes, I can still walk OK) or take some form of public transport, from a taxi to a bus to a train etc. So does this property you've bought lie anywhere close to a FREQUENT bus line? I raise this question not just for myself but because others may also find that they have such conditions well before they're likely to die. Even simple aging can produce a condition in which the person simply cannot drive. If they're content to simply sit and smell the flowers, they won't need to drive, but if they want to do more with themselves it's important because they will need some form of public transport. Catching rides with friends just doesn't work if you need to do it repeatedly. One advantage of my current residence is that a major university lies within walking distance... which helps a lot in putting together PERIASTRON, for instance. And to anyone reading this: you don't know what will happen to you, but one thing that may well happen is NOT that you die when you are capable of doing everything you can do now, but that you die after a period in which some simple acts which you do everyday now become impossible. This is a corollary of the point that "death" does NOT usually occur to people in full possession of their abilities. So what IS the situation with your recently bought tract of land? Best and long long life, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13505