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Skriven 2006-12-21 10:32:13 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 9071 av RUTH HANSCHKA (1:123/140)
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Hi Ruth,

-> Alas, this is one of those tourist trolleys--built on a bus base so it's
-> not the real thing. Steve has a cold now so I'm not sure if we'll be
-> going tomorrow night or not.

 RH> Oh well - can't have everything.  Dad would have gone for even a phony
 RH> trolly over a real car.

Well, we did go--and had fun.  It was drizzling a bit but no snow.
Steve still has his cold but he's over the worst of it.

-> -> Trouble is, not everybody has the sense to respect a SAW.
->  RH> That kind can be taken care of with the application of a SAW.  Of
->  RH> course, it's a little tough on the surroundings....
 RH> ->
-> Depends on if it's set for single shot or burst.

 RH> Either way, the person disrepecting the weapon is no longer around to
 RH> care...


Basically, yes.


->  RH> My cousin did his 20 in the Air Force.  He's been working for the
 RH> VA

-> We've got other job plans.

 RH> Seminary!

Most likely for Steve, not sure about me.  Maybe teaching in a sewing
store?

-> Yes, still a nice bit of change in the pocket.

 RH> Beats depending on the private sector for insurance.

Yes, and with Tricare we have 3 layers of options, depending on where we
live and some flex within those.  Would like to be near a decent sized
commissary for grocery shopping--one bigger than the one here.


->  RH> Oh dear.  Well, you'll find country southern holes in the wall
->  RH> instead. Around here it's Jamaican.
 RH> ->
-> But we want Korean every so often.  There's one place we've seen but not
-> tried yet; looks a bit more upscale than the hole in the wall places we
-> went to in HI.

 RH> I only know one Korean restaurant around here, but it's relatively
 RH> upscale. On the other hand, there is a shopping plaza at the other end
 RH> of the next town over with a thrift store, a Vietnamese Pho joint, a
 RH> Thai
 RH> hole-in-the-wall, and a huge asian grocery store.  One end of West
 RH> Hartford is loaded with Vietnamese joints of all sorts.

OK, we like Thai and Vietmanese as well.  I'm a bit pickier on the Thai
than Korean or others but usually can find something that has no coconut
or peanut butter.


-> But if you want the truck bad enough, you'll go?

 RH> It's not that bad of a desire.  OTOH, a red vintage 50s rhinestone
 RH> necklace with rivoli stones....<G>  Of course, a good one would cost
 RH> 5x the price of the truck.

Just as long as it's not ravioli stones; scanning quickly, that's what
my eye read first time thru. (G)

->  RH> Nope - even if you'd moved at birth you'd still be considered a
->  RH> Northerner in some places.
 RH> ->
-> Takes 3 generations.  If we had, then Rachel & David had stayed in the
-> south, Robert would be considered a southerner. Least wise, that's what
-> a (native) of North Carolina told us.

 RH> That's about what I heard too.  I'm considered a Connecticut native
 RH> since I was born here, but I have to qualify it by saying my parents
 RH> were New
 RH> Jersey refugees.

Well, I had one parent born in NY, other in NJ but still feel more like
my roots are in the south.

->  RH> Poi - Hawaii's answer to turnips!

-> Now I like turnips!  More like flavored library paste!

 RH> Ahhh - boil-in-bag white rice!  Wonder bread!  Gotcha.

Fermented, sometimes flavored library paste. Not white rice/bread bland;
the fermentation adds something (tho I'm not sure what) to it.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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