Text 1425, 92 rader
Skriven 2006-05-13 13:52:20 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 1373 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: uncle 665
=================
Hi Michael,

 ML> say it, a career officer, I think infantry.
 RH> I don't think we've run into him.  Then, too, most of the folks we
 RH> associate with are MI and some of them can be on the strange side. (G)

 ML> Different kind of strange, I hope. I don't have any friends

Yes, very strange in their own right. (G)  The way the mind workd
sometimes--Steve has explained some of his round about jumping from one
toptic to another, unrelated one thinking works.  Then, too, I've pulled
the same sort of thinking when I tell him how I get the answer to some
of the Final Jeopardy clues.

 ML> that I know of who are current MI - some old-time OSS people
 ML> from WWII days, though. I was told that there were a load of
 ML> musicians in that business, and that during the war they were
 ML> actually recruited for the purpose on the theory that they
 ML> had good applied-mathematical and puzzle-solving types of
 ML> brains.

Yes, both very left brained thinkng.  I've a couple of friends--one who
helped develop the maths for GPS and is also a great honkey tonk piano
player; the other who teaches science/math and plays piano mostly by
rote but learning a little of the other's style.  The latter is also a
quilter but has to do things "by the book" and enjoys my wild flights of
imagination "seeing" how a finished quilt (or other project) will look
just from the uncut fabrics.  (Drives Steve nuts that I can do projects
with just an idea of what I want the finished thing to look like.)

 RH> Not so good; I hope they got properly chastised for it.
 ML> Nope. But we didn't have parties at that restaurant any more.
 RH> Probably shuld have been and sobered up the perpitrators somewhat.

 ML> No question of should have been, but we have our codes.
 ML> I actually saw the thefts in progress, and I chastised
 ML> them at the time, with the answer being, "why not?
 ML> Nobody will catch us" - which immediately endeared them
 ML> and the entire body of pre-law students to me no end.


OTOH, there are plenty that would see the stash and not at all be
tempted by it.

 ML> career military - I will add that the top ringleader ended up
 ML> an attorney.
 RH> Defense or prosecuting?

 ML> Equally horrid thought - could you imagine a prosecutor who
 ML> was willing to lie, cheat, and steal? But probably some kind
 ML> of corporate or something like that.

Shudder!  Makes me think of those who try & sell state secrets--how can
they disregard the country like that no matter where they live?


 RH> Same here but most of my friends don't drink anything stronger than
 RH> Coke, Pepsi or stuff like that. (G)  This going to UH games and
 RH> getting garlic fries, then over to Zippy's afterward has been fun; I
 RH> think some of the wait staff has thought we were nuts at times tho.

 ML> It's great being at the edge of middle age and still being
 ML> able to act like a bunch of nuts kids.

Yes, and sometimes you wonder if we've really reached adulthood. (G)  A
group of us (the usual suspects) are going up to Waimea Bay tonight with
beach chairs and sandwiches just to watch the sun set.


 RH> If she had to move every few years, she would learn.  We had thought
 RH> in summer of 03 that we would be leaving in March of 04 so I started
 RH> "eating down" the freezer.  Then we got extended for 2 years & again,

 ML> Carol moved the contents of her freezer when she moved.

But how many moves has she made n her adult life?  I've made someting
like 14 since getting married, not quite one every 2 years on average.

 ML> Hail Caesar Salad

Those of us who are about to die salad (salute) you?


---
Catch you later,
Ruth
rchafflyNOSPAM(at)NOSPAMearthlink(dot)net  FIDO 1:396/45.28

... 90% of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

--- PPoint 3.01
 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28)