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modern_who
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 Posted 03/04/2008 6:07 pm
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How do you most enjoy working on your collection?
Is there an ideal way or do you just take it anyway you can get it?
When sifting through a box of stuff I just bought, it doesn't much matter.
My ideal, however, is generally a winter evening after everything has settled down... going into my stamp room, closing the door, and putting on one of my favorite soft jazz CD's while I carefully hinge stamps into one of my albums. It's soothing, relaxing, and so pleasant I sometimes spend more time at it than I probably should.
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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] . . . will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
-- Thomas Jefferson -- The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809)
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laswabbie
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USA
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Posted 03/04/2008 6:15 pm
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Since I work so many hours I find it hard to carve out a lot of "alone" time with my collections. I usually work on my stuff while watching TV with my wife or while she's working on something in the office.
Then there are nights like this when I have to be in the office until 9:00 and I spend time on here playing with the other kids!
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t360
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USA
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Posted 03/04/2008 9:27 pm
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Your ideal way sounds great, modern_who! The best of times!
Usually I am doing it more like LaSwabbie, though.
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nr-notrare
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USA
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Posted 03/04/2008 9:36 pm
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Hello modern.....
Guess I'm the lucky one here.....I generally get a couple of days a week home alone ALL day. I have a wide variety of music that I enjoy that usually matches what ever country I happen to be working on. Can't think of a better way to spend a day.
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Charles
Valued Member
USA
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Posted 03/04/2008 9:36 pm
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I like to work on mine in the front room in natural daylight; I find I get a better look at the stamps in the daylight. Plus, I have a nice view out my front windows.
Charles.
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philb
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dopie13
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USA
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Posted 03/05/2008 02:22 am
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Hello modern_who,
Usualy the only time I get is between 9:00pm & 11pm Tuesday nights.
that's after the 3yo and the 14yo are in bed and the wife is relaxing
with Oprah.
p.s. do you have two harts?
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modern_who
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USA
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Posted 03/05/2008 03:03 am
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Hello dopie_13,
Do you mean two hats or two hearts?
Don't know whether you missed a key or hit the r & t simultaneously.
If you mean hearts, only one, though it's sometimes divided.
If you mean hats, I have more than you can hang a head on... though I only wear a real hat when it's raining or cold.
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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] . . . will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
-- Thomas Jefferson -- The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809)
Larry, APS Member
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Triggersmob
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Australia
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Posted 03/05/2008 04:55 am
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My Wife works doing night fill at the grocery store, she starts at 6.00pm. So I get all the time I want to do my collections (when I can pull myself away from this dang computer).
Steve 
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Dianne Earl
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dopie13
Valued Member
USA
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Posted 03/05/2008 3:49 pm
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modern_who,
umm, that's two hearts.
I thought you might be a time lord such as the Dr.
Dr. Who is a British SciFi show.
Don't mind me, I lose track of the topic sometimes.
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t360
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Triggersmob
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Australia
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Posted 03/05/2008 5:03 pm
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I love the Daleks, I saw a real one (the ones they used in Dr. Who) when I lived in England nearly 40 years ago.
Steve
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modern_who
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USA
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Posted 03/05/2008 6:27 pm
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Hello again, dopie13.
That's OK. I've heard of Dr. Who but never watched the show. My familiarity with doctors in British entertainment ends with Dr. No.
I've been kind of a James Bond junkie and sometimes when working on my collection I'll slip in one of the old Sean Connery 007 tapes I've seen so many times that I don't have to watch and just let it run in the background instead of music.
Modern_who is just one of those things that happens when asked to create a username at a website you found when you don't come prepared with something already in mind. No other heart. No timelord.
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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] . . . will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
-- Thomas Jefferson -- The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809)
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t360
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USA
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Posted 03/05/2008 7:07 pm
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"Dr. No" stamps were just released in January 2008 as part of a James Bond set issued
to celebrate the centenary of author Ian Fleming's birth.
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modern_who
Pillar Of The Community
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Posted 03/05/2008 7:18 pm
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Thanks for posting those Dr. No stamps, Tom. I'll have to see about getting some just for fun.
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"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies . . . If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] . . . will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered . . . The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
-- Thomas Jefferson -- The Debate Over The Recharter Of The Bank Bill, (1809)
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