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Whibf Fre res, edesdySepemer18,196 ,PaeR I I I Affer 218 games of single dock Yukon solitaire, the win rate stands at 18.4 per cent. Last week I recorded a new high score of 91,435 in JezzBall. AIl, as you can see., is not idleness. Ieres more, much more.lhiat 3.72 of the 34.47 thank you notes have been completed. Once that's done, and the shopping list computerized and analyzed for frequency distribution of non-recurring items, why, surely the best seller can't be far behind. Ail 247.62 Pages of it. 1od 1 qlýliliii qimo nwvm- w -- Jw f. Free Press, Wednesday, September'18,1996, Page 7 'dow#" -MOMM."; Albý .Mmftý ý Whitbý 1 MMÀOM àp%àw Aomb.. ýý a A 46.637-minute columin Since I eschewed ail advice and kind of, ie o exactly quit my day job, but sort of like stepped down, I have'received a number of queries. First &fom old friende,. offering to push me in a wheelchair around our old favourite 1O-kilometre running route. Second, from other old friends lying boldly te my face anqd asserting that inm not old enough te retire. Third, from family, frienda and strangers asking what itfs like te get up in the momning and know you really don't have te do a damned thing you don't want te do. Pretty good, actually. 0f course, if you have a spouse who is' stiil working there are going to be some things that you pretty darned* soon learn you want te do or there may be trouble ini paradise. But that is a column for another day. What I have* not received, so far, is a cail from any internationally known book publishers offering huge advances on my forthcoming best seller. That's partly' because I haven't written it yet. Also, partly because I haven't completed the short'outline and sample chapters yet te send te an agent. Worse, because I haven't the vaguest idea of where te, search for an agent. But hey! I have' this idea, see, and it's ail up,(pointing. te a point between my ears, behind my eyes somewhere) hère. (Everyjournalist bas a book in relatively the same place, which is likely where God intended it te, stay.) >Also what I haven't done yet is write those thank you notes te ail my friends and well-wishers fr-om Durham College. But corne on, guys, gimme a break. They're coming. I ORGANJST AT ST. THOMAS' ANGLICAR CHURoe4 BROOKLIN, SEFFEMBER, 109 Mrs. Harry Lade is playing the organ which was donated to the church in September 1939 by Fred W. Browne of Toronto, whose family attended the church since its openxng in 1869. Anchbifihop ofToronto and Prmate of canada, Lev. Derwyn T. Owen dedicated this and other gifts te, the church on Sept. 24, 1939. Wuhty Arc)dvM Photo 10 YEARS AGO from the Wednesday, September 17, 1986 edition of the WluTB3Y FREE PRESS 0 VWhitby Historical Society bas opened a museum mn the Kendalwood Plaza. 0 Durhazn Regional Council has approved an additional councillor for Whitby. a Denis OConnor Hligh &chool is holding a 'T)oc-a-Thon" te raise $65,000 for operatino h school. to f h 0 Brooklin Redinen lost the Mann Cup te British Columbia whIule the rooforfIroquois Park Arena leaked during the final game. 35 YEARS AGO from the. Thursday, September 14, 1961 edition of the WB1TBYWEERKLy NEWS * Whitby Ministerial Association is opposed te lotteries as fundraising projects for charities. * The AIi-Ontarjo peewee lacrosse teurnainent will lie held at Wh!tyCmuiyAeao sept. 16. tYCmuiyAeao *The Whitby Safety Council is holding a bcycle rodeo on Sept. 30 at St. John the Evangle Church parking lot. gls % v. David M1arhalilihas returned from bis retirement trip te SStiand. 100 YEARS AGO from the Friday, September 18, 1896 edition of the WfflBY CHRONICLE *Public Sehool Inspecter James MacBrion declared a holiday for the pupils of Brooklin »S&1oo0 because they did so well on the entrance examinatons * Covered buses Wi"' leave the Whitby Methodmst Tabernacle at 6 p.m. on Spt. 23foapi socalte ai. unds for Almonds Ohurch. * Witby Collegiate Instituts bas organized a football club. *Mr. Lowell of the Whitby Vmnegar works lu offering -fresh cider for sale. m .But on te more practical matters. What does a retired person do with ail that time? Well, for one thing, boredom -is neyer a problem. The secret lies in keeping the m'id occupied with reai tasks in the reai world. Did you know, for example, that the average household budget could be computerized in slightly less than a week, working inorings only with fairly long'(57.3 minute) coffee breaks? Or that breakfast dishes can be cleared, stacked in the dishwasher, the counter scoured in 13.39 minutes? That an 11-year-old spends approximately 7.78 minutes in the bathrom each morning, but won't decide what she wants for 'breakfast until 24.9 minutes before the school bell rings? Vacuuxning -the entire house takes 23.73 minutes, using the power nozzle (2.1 amnps) and a 36.7-foot-long hose? . 7%at the household's 23.8 bath tewels (average size 60 by 98 centimetres) must be laundered, dried and folded every 2.19 days? That the trap in the drier catches an average of 5.6 pounds of used lint a week. aIs there a market somewhere?) We now know that our new car (new te us, four years olId actually) consumes 10.12 litres of high octane (92.0) gas every 100 kilometres. Furthèr te household precision, Canada Post delivers mail daily te our neighbourhood superpost (2.3 minutes by stroil) every day by 2:07 p.n. With some planning, it is possible te pick up mail each day, identiIfr the incoming bilils, write the appropriate choques and mail them out the same day from the corner stere four blocks away.