Growing Old - Part 3

The photo was taken in 1992, the year I decided to give up golf and start what I call the ‘solitude years’. Most of my waking hours were spent in the ‘boar’s nest’. One goal I had, was to devise a computerized investment program; a disciplined approach for managing a stock portfolio. I even had intentions, and compiled a lot of notes, for writing a ‘How To’ book, titled, ‘Tweaking the Stock Market’.

It was also the beginning of the Internet Age. AOL was my provider, but it was a long distance dial-up service.. It was okay for sending and receiving e-mail, but slow and expensive for browsing. That technology changed fast. Today’s high-speed Internet service with its fantastic search engines, is amazing.  I spend more time than ever in the boar’s nest.

By-the-way, the computerized investment program and the book writing goals faded away, and were never resumed, when my daughter asked me to make the first of two ‘Journeys to China’ with her.