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     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
Ärende: RE: Bum Backs
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Hey Ruth!

->  
-> -> -> I've always wondered about people who complained about being
forced
-> to
-> -> -> transfer out there.  Outside of high prices on some imported
-> commodities,
-> -> -> what's the problem.  Fresh tropical fruit from a tree in the back
-> yard? 
-> -> -> Geckos in the rafters?
-> -> -> 
-> -> Lots of people don't like Hawaii for one reason.....
-> -> it's an island, and you can't get off. No matter which
-> -> direction you drive, you're gonna end up at the BEACH!
-> -> For some folks that's never an issue (me, I loved it!)
-> 
-> And for this they complain?  You just can't please some people.  Forced
to
-> spend time on a beach, and they're yelling. 
->
The difference is whether you're there by choice or "force". 
If prison is paradise, it's still prison (to some at least!)
 
-> -> for others it gives them a sort of claustrophobic effect
-> -> that they can't seem to shake and they begin to hate
-> -> the island and everything island! Those that get "island
-> -> happy" can't wait to get off the island...and don't understand
-> -> the other people who aren't "island happy".
-> 
-> I guess I can understand the trapped feeling, but you can get that
-> anywhere.  
->

It's not a rare phenomenon in the islands. Everyone 
knows what "island happy" means and the folks who have
it can not be happy while they are on the island. I'm
just glad that I loved my time in the islands!
  
-> -> -> ...and still make like a lazy slob until it lets up?  This sounds
-> like a
-> -> -> good time to be a guinea pig at a theraputic massage school.  
-> -> -> 
-> -> Making like a lazy slob is not really a good reference as a slob
-> -> would not keep trying to get up and do stuff. My sister in law 
-> 
-> Nope - better to be a smart and lazy slob than an idiot who tries to
keep
-> working when he should be playing couch potato.
-> 
-> -> (Anne's younger sister) is a licensed Massage Practioner and used
-> -> to teach at a school of massage....but her hands are too strong
-> -> for my back!
-> 
-> Ouch.  She didn't know how to dial it down?  I was working on someone
-> tonight that I couldn't rub hard enough.  The muscles were headed for
-> concrete stage.  Other times if someone's spasming out you have to go
-> gently at least at first. I'm a rank amateur and even I know that much.
->  

She knows how to dial it down, and she's 
a marvelous LMP and she was a really good 
teacher as well. But right now she's suffering
from a spinal injury...which affects her 
ability to feel how much pressure she's using
with her hands. Needless to say right now she's
out of work and undergoing a lot of physical 
therapy herself. 

-> -> -> I do drink occasionally, just very moderately.  I actually like
beer;
-> I
-> -> -> just rarely drink it.  I sometimes like wine, and would have no
-> problem
-> -> -> trying out single malts.  Armagnac is wonderful stuff, as is
buffalo
-> grass
-> -> -> vodka.  The latter I can find because there's a good-sized Russian
-> -> -> population here and has been since the Soviet Union started
letting
-> Jews
-> -> -> leave.
-> -> ->   
-> -> Armagnac is good! vodka I can leave alone and never feel
-> -> as if I've missed anything of worth! 
-> 
-> It depends on the vodka.  The buffalo grass-flavored stuff is pretty
darned
-> good.  It's a totally different thing than the regular flavored ones,
-> because unlike the Stoli Blueberri or whatever it's a traditional
flavoring
-> that's been used since the Poles first started making the stuff.  Or the
-> Russians - depends on who you ask.

I don't like vodka at all, and certainly 
not vodka that's trying to taste like 
something else. Give me gin, or bourbon, or
scotch, or sour mash whiskey...even rye
but no vodka!
chat with you soon
ha
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