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    Never Admit to Having a Senior Moment
    Never Admit to Having a Senior Moment
    Never Admit to Having a Senior Moment
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    Never Admit to Having a Senior Moment

    By Mario V. Farina

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    Mario V Farina is a prolific writer of short stories and slice-of-life anecdotes, puns, and life advice. This is a collection about classic cars, World War II, career experimentation, the heart, Puns, playing jokes, and what it was like to live decades ago. He has seen the Information Age form, and has played a personal part in ushering computers into our lives! See what he has to say, and you won't be disappointed.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMario V. Farina
    Release dateDec 9, 2014
    ISBN9781311981219
    Never Admit to Having a Senior Moment
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    Mario V. Farina

    Mario V Farina has worked all his life, from age 18 to 90. He worked for the American Locomotive Company, served in the U. S. Army during WWII, was employed at General Electric. He taught computers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After leaving his position with RPI, he became employed with the State Labor Department of New York. He’s a car buff, a pun creator, and a computer enthusiast. He wrote textbooks for the programming languages COBOL and FORTRAN and wrote a book of puns and short stories called, “A Little Light Reading,” as well as over 20 other books. Several of his books were translated into other languages. This is his first foray into the world of digital publishing, with the help of his computer tutor (william.rl.dickie@gmail.com).

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      Never Admit to Having a Senior Moment - Mario V. Farina

      Never Admit to Having a Senior Moment

      by

      Mario V. Farina, A Nonagenarian

      Copyright 2014 by Mario V. Farina

      Smashwords Edition

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      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission of the author.

      Correspondence may be directed to:

      Mario V Farina

      Email: mario@mariofarina.com

      Farina, Mario V.

      Never Admit to Having a Senior Moment/ Mario V. Farina

      ISBN: 9781311981219

      Table Of Contents

      Hello I'm Ninety...

      Pearl Harbor

      My 1957 Volvo

      My Cataract Surgery

      A New Life for My Heart and a New Future for Me

      The Mystery of the Single Word on a 3x5 Card

      Living with My Trusty Pacemaker

      A Snapshot of my Life in 1937

      Memories of President Kennedy

      My Loyal and Indispensable Partner, the Pacemaker

      My Sideline Career

      Life Beyond a Diagnosis of Congestive Heart Failure

      My First Home Purchase

      The REACH Approach

      How We Replaced Our Mortgage with a Line of Credit

      I Love a Mystery

      I'm Out of Touch

      My Career as a Computer Pioneer

      My Service as a World War II Radio Operator

      Like Lorenzo Jones

      Learning In-Line Skating

      The Death of Andy Rooney

      The Best Motorcycle I've Ever Owned

      Road Testing Our 1972 Fiat 500

      How Are the Seats

      My Service in the U.S. Army in World War II

      A Road Test of 1956 Renault

      An End to the Cape Cod Menace

      The IQ Test

      Buying a Classic Packard

      Falling into a Job

      Sept 11's Grief Never Ended

      The Fun Smart Car

      I Love Puns

      I Love Puns 2

      Betting on the Numbers

      The Surprise Savings Account

      Playing a Joke on Jeff

      Fun at the American Locomotive Company

      About the Author

      Discover Other Titles by Mario V Farina

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      Never Admit to Having a Senior Moment

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      Hello, I'm Ninety. Can I Tell You Something?

      Some time back I wrote an article for Yahoo indicating that everyone should write a book. I said it could be done in one month. I'm still employed. In conversing with co-workers during a break, I questioned whether it was truly possible to do this in one month and challenged myself to try. Two attempts were failures. I decided to try again.

      Back at my desk the phone rang and I answered with hello. As I said that, I wondered what the other person would say if I added I'm ninety. What I was thinking about being ninety was true. I had celebrated this momentous birthday a few days before. The germ of an idea formed in my mind and it resulted in, Hello, I'm Ninety. Can I tell You Something? I decided to try authoring a book with as many personal topics as I could write about in one month. The number turned out to be thirty-two.

      The topics were those that would not require extensive research since they had been inbred in me for many years. Some examples were, buying a new home as soon as possible; investing in stocks for the future; getting all the education one could; being dependable; reasons for not retiring too soon; work ethics; maintaining good health; essential arithmetic everyone should know; the problems with English spelling; budgeting, job interviews, and more.

      I'm a good typist and began putting down highlights of these topics. Within a short time the first draft of the book was finished and the revision was begun. In an old album I found a picture I thought would go well on the front cover. For the back cover I decided on a photo taken on my birthday. The topics had required 67 pages of written material. The size of the book was to be 6-1/4 x 6-1/4. I was finished and had a few copies made up. It had been thirty days since I had started the project. I began the difficult task of attempting to sell the book on the date this article was submitted to Yahoo, July 14, 2013.

      I'm ninety. I hope I've told you something that has been of interest and, perhaps, even inspirational to you.

      First Person: Pearl Harbor and the Day We Became Men

      Yahoo News asked Americans deeply impacted by the Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attacks to share how their families were affected in the decades since. Here's one story.

      FIRST PERSON | I was 18 when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened. I lived in Schenectady, N.Y., and I had just completed my high school education at Mont Pleasant High. The year was 1941 and I thought it was a great time to be alive. Yes, there was a war in Europe but it seemed far away, and I did not think it would affect our country. Young men were being drafted to serve in the armed forces but that was for those who were between the ages of 21 and 35. I didn't think the draft would affect me. My immediate concern was getting a job.

      My younger brother Tony and I lived with our parents in the Mont Pleasant area of the city. Tony was still in school. Our family didn't own a car so when we went anywhere, it was always by shanks mare; that is, by foot. That was fine with us. Our world consisted of a radius of only a few miles from home.

      Sundays were movie day. In the afternoon, around two, the four of us, kids and parents, would parade, two in front, and two in back to the theater on Crane Street only three blocks away. There would always be a double feature there and a cartoon. For a dollar or two, we could spend an enjoyable afternoon there. And this Sunday did not appear to be any different. When we got home and turned on the radio, we heard that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor. Two questions immediately arose: What and where was Pearl Harbor and what did the news have to do with us?

      From the ominous tones of the announcers, it was obvious that the unimaginable had happened. Our country was at war and it had begun with a monstrous disaster. The attack by the Japanese had been, for them, a phenomenal success.

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