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If I tell someone they can trust me, that person can 100% rely on me. They do not need to create a âlevelâ of trust - itâs a promise I will fulfill with no âConjunction Junctionâ being my âport of entryâ. No conditions to be met. No ifs ands or buts, in other words.
When I co-managed a Sherwin-Williams paint store the following quote hung on the wall of our office:
âWe will do what we say we will do.
We wonât commit to something we cannot do.
Once we commit to it, we will do it.â
I know this isnât selling paint, but the same is true no matter what the challenge(s).
Line two in the above quote is giving me trouble, however, and it has ever since I knew of the requirements. In fact, itâs causing me quite a bit of discomfort.
Yes, I am 74 and retired, but there are things in my life which require my attention and they donât all center around World Of Warcraft.
Being my wifeâs care-giver is number one on that âHit Paradeâ list and will continue to be for as long as it takes. If I were to make an outline (you remember those, right? âIf thereâs a I then there must be a IIâŚâ, those), my I would fill a page just by itself. I think you get the idea, so Iâll skip the outline. Dondra is job one and always will be.
To conclude, just look for my words under whatever forum title/topic fits them. Therein lies my commitment. No commitment at all.
ââŚA sadder but wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.â - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, 1797.
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Your reading too much into this trust lvls are just a perk of being active on the forums.
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Hey Jonas my friend. Iâm sorry youâre having trouble regaining the trust level.
Iâm hoping you and your wife are doing well. I miss your posts. Iâm just kicking myself for not /friending you when you had your community, so we could keep in touch or at least I could see you were about.
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Hey, Ian.
Thanks for the note. I donât know if itâs possible to follow someone, but if it works for you, all Iâm doing really is posting in the correct forums, such as the one Marwella helped me with earlier.
Iâll miss the music part of it for sure, because that was something I enjoyed - sharing some tunes from bygone eras - and hopefully broadening some of you young folksâ horizons a little.
Otherwise, Iâm still the same old Same-Olâ. 
I have to admit, however, that now Iâve freed up the time, I realize just how lenient âShe Who Must Be Obeyedâ has been, not only with my game time, but also the time I used writing and answering posts in The Lounge.
I have a bunch of cassettes waiting to be transferred to mp3, many of which were demos of 45 rpm records of folks who went on to become stars. Jimmy Buffett for example. Before A White Sportcoat And a Pink Crustacean, he, just like other âStars To Beâ, sent records around for airplay. I used to stay late at the studios where I worked and listen to those demos and then recorded them to cassettes. It will be fun going through them and listening again to what they sent. If you have Buffettâs album on Barnaby records, you might want to hang on to it. When I met him once, I asked him to autograph that one, and he told me that one was such an embarrassment he tried to buy up every copy he could.
I have plenty to keep me busy, and I donât plan on going anywhere any time soon. 
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Hi JonĂŁs,
Youâre missed in TL3. It sounds like you have a lot to keep you musically occupied, and I imagine that will trigger great memories/stories.
I hope you, and âShe Who Must Be Obeyedâ are well.
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