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Skriven 2006-11-04 22:12:59 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 7257 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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Hi Michael,

 RH> if the company is really good, the food won't taste that bad.

 ML> The food will still taste that bad, but you won't mind it as much.

Or notice it as much.

 ML>    OTOH, if
 RH> company is bad, no amount of super fantastic food will improve it--as a
 RH> general rule.

 ML> I disagree; I just make my tablemates walk the plank (in my
 ML> head), and when I can't hear them any more, I just eat.

Sometimes easier said than done.

 ML> our schedules, I don't know exactly. Or even if we're going
 ML> to fly or take a junket in the Miata.
 RH> Well, just remember that we aren't too far away.

 ML> If it's temperate and it's in the Miata. We could meet
 ML> sort of halfway, at a shrimp shack along the coast.


Well, we won't be doing too much wandering for a few weeks-have to put
our house in order.  Stopped at a new (to us) upscale cookery store
today for their grand re-opening and could have dropped a bundle.
Didn't there but did spend some at Target & Linens and Things.  Kitchen
related stuff was a stainless steel dish drainer set & paper towel
holder.


 RH> on Oahu.  We just timed it right to get to go to Maui for business and
 RH> pleasure.

 ML> Excellent. Which reminds me of a random thought I had, do you
 ML> have female deacons? The reason I asked is that one of the
 ML> hospitals I've had business with is the New England Deaconess,
 ML> founded by Methodist deaconesses.

Most generally not, tho our church in HI did at some time many years
before we joined.  It's very much a men's job but I won't get into a
theological discussion of it.  Some denominations do have women serve,
as you noted, the Methodists for one.


 RH> We are less than thrilled with it but at the time, it was the only
 RH> IHOP in the state.

 ML> Would you trek to the only McDonalds in the state? (Don't answer
 ML> that - I once went to what was the only McDonalds in Ireland, just
 ML> to see what it was like. I atoned by going across the way to the
 ML> Bewley's tea parlour.

We enjoyed the company more than the food.


 RH> I don't want a stack of lead balloon (AKA pancakes) with a
 RH> plae of eggs, sausage and suchlike.  Steve wanted pancakes so we split
 RH> an order--he took the pancakes and I had the eggs.

 ML> That's what I found good about IHOP, the (eventual) willingness
 ML> to serve me nonbreakfast food at breakfast. I agree that that
 ML> sounds like a big heavy meal, but I'd be willing to eat a big
 ML> heavy breakfast if it tasted like dinner, not breakfast.

It was a quiet morning so the waitress was willing to work with a group
that had been up to try & see sunrise on Haliakala.  We'd all been up
since the wee small hours of the morning & were a bit goofey by then
without any caffiene since the night before (except our pastor who got a
Coke at 4:15).

 ML> Easy alu mattar
 ML> cat: vegetarian, fake Indian
 RH> Fake Indian?  Is it a Fakir recipe then? (GD&R)

 ML> Ought to clap you into the brig for that one.

No, you wouldn't be able to appreciate my subtle sense of humor if you
were denied access to it.

 ML> Sugar Cane Shrimp
 ML> cat: main, shellfish
 ML> servings: 4

 ML> http://www.hei.com/heco/ekitchen/
 ML> (courtesy of Kirby Wong, Canoes Restaurant at the Ilikai)

Looks good!  We had the Brudda Iz "Facing Future" playing in the car
stereo this afternoon/evening.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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