"Home again"

Dick · Expert Member

Now that you have had time to get everything back where you had it, or where you want it, now. You can relax, and do what you have enjoyed doing for many years.
My question is "How do you feel? I imagine your health is improved to a certain degree, for the reasons you made the decision to return "home". I hope you are 'back in shape" again, and enjoying life, as you should.
Take care, and keep up the good work! We couldn't have gotten this far without you.

coppercoins · Site Admin

I wouldn't want to be presumptuous here...was your message addressing me?

Dick · Expert Member

Yes, Chuck, it is for you. I have many things on my mind, (what there is left of it), and forgot to indicate to whom. sorry.

coppercoins · Site Admin

No problem.

My health, overall, is better. I still ave issues with the lifetime illness with my brain which sometimes results in forgetfulness, inability to communicate well, and sometimes blurry vision, etc. but it's not a real big deal as long as it never gets worse from the level it's at now.

As for "relaxing" - well, I still don't make the level of money I need to be comfortable, and am always working on making that situation better...so I put in a lot of hours to try catching things up.

I am happy at home, and I do pretty much what I want to be doing with my life. Now if I can make it more lucrative, I will be just fine. Thanks for asking!

Dick · Expert Member

Chuck, Yoy get what you work for, and you have worked harder than most of us realize. Not just anyong can set up a website, and have it function as does this one! If there are 'glitches', it is usually something small, and simple to take care of.
Your :"being there' when one needs support, or information, and I am as big a recipient as any here,,and most likely more than most. I always have a question of some sort, (usually the same one, for the "N'th" time).
I am very happy that your health is 'holding steady, all concerned, and with the removal of the burden you had in FL, you have to be feelig better.
The standard of living that one has depends on what one is used to, or what one feels comfortable in. I prefer the latter. I am not a wealthy man, but I am "comfortable in my life -style". it is not elegant, but I have always covered all monthly expenses, and have had a little left over to use as i please. Coins, have become very important to me, because with them, I don't have time to sit in an old rocking chair, and slowly 'fade away". No way! If it isn't checking for another RPM, or a new variety in the IHC, then it is a whole new world of vatieties in the Canadian large cent. Not to say it is a difficult field of indeavor, it is very interesting, and there are hundreds of varieties in the 1859 alone. The other dates all have their share.
If it isn't checking coins, then it is making storage boxes, (I haf to make 10 new ones today), and that is usually good for 150 2X2 flips per box. They are only varieties, not normal run of dates. Some may only have one, or two dates, buty many varieties.
If tou seek 'new frontiers", look at the "Vickys".
Take care, and live as you will, but above all, be comfortable!
Dick

coppercoins · Site Admin

Thanks Dick...

My direction turend to the Lincoln cent way back in the early 1980s when I needed "direction" - I needed something to specialize in because I knew collecting everything in Krause World Coin Catalog would be far too much to try - even at 12 I realized that.

As for needing other direction - I'm afraid I have many years to go before tackling even this beast, so grappling with another one just doesn't make sense. Frankly if I were to choose another direction, it would probably be all 20th century die varieties in US coins.

As for this website...I have dreams. I generally make my own dreams come true through hard work, but frankly the monster called BILLS has overridden the time and energy I would have wanted to spend expanding this site. It will happen, in time. I hope it's within enough time for you to enjoy.
I appreciate all your kind words and comments.

Thank you.

Dick · Expert Member

Chuck, The time I have spent here, and the things I have learned, as a result of having become a member, more than pays for all the times I would have gone thru the "world Coins", trying to get even one from every country. The vatieties in Lincoln cents all make it a worthwhle cause. There are way too many varieties, in this area alone, to ever "have them all".
My vision makes it necessary to "go where there is Light", figuratively speaking, because I no longer see the DDO/DDR', and the RPM's, so I went to FE/IHC, where thr RPD's are mucgh easier to see. The expense in trying to make a decent set, makes it out of my reach, other than in the "problem coins". They are very expensiove, even as such, but it is the only way I will have at least one full set, (minus the "77, and the '09-S. These two, and the '09-S VDB are, and will be the only "absentees
Going to the large cents, gives me "new territory", to play in. Now, I check for the different OBVerses, and REVerses. Whatever it takes. I'll not give up my passion!
I have had a lolong day, making boxes for mu flips, coming out of the 3-ring notebooks), and I am tired!@ "Pooped, more like it"! Good evening, and enjoy what you have , as I am doing, thanks to you, and a whole lot more! folks