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Skriven 2008-09-01 17:31:05 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 13008 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: keeping cool
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Hi Hap,

->  HN> We now get paid once a month as well, Anne on the
->  HN> last day of the month and me on the first. We

-> But you have 2 incomes vs the one here.

 hn> E-8 over twenty with housing and rats allowance
 hn> is more than our two combined. we still have to
 hn> budget carefully to meet all the bills and come
 hn> out on the plus side of the ledger. (grin)

That's the key to it--good budgeting.

->  HN> There's also a neat train museum in Sacramento
->  HN> consider that as well for future travels.

-> I can see the wheels spinning now.................

 hn> Whirrrrrrrrrr! (grin)

Mostly steam oriented or don't you know?


-> No, they teach at the under grad level.

 hn> TA usually, not teach. Happily Amanda
 hn> has TA'd (Teaching Assistant) several
 hn> classes, but now with her full funding she's

I understand that some universities use grad students as teachers for
the huge classes ofundergrads (usually freshmen) taking required
courses. Sounds like Amanda did well to avoid that.

 hn> free to spend all her time doing her research
 hn> and working on papers for publication.

Does she take time to cook decent meals or wait until you come to feast?

-> -> ponds either time so no overwhelming hog stench.  Steve bought 2
 hn> packs
-> -> of Canadian bacon the other night.
->  HN> ->
->  HN> Have you eaten any of it yet?

-> Not yet, probably tomorrow.  We do the more involved cooking for
-> breakfast on week ends.  Part will be used for our own version of "egg
-> muffins"--whole wheat English muffin, cheese (real stuff, not plastic)
-> and usually turkey bacon with egg; Canadian bacon if we have it

 hn> We make those on occasion. Or we
 hn> used to before we pretty much gave up
 hn> on breads.

We did similar years ago with real bacon and home made English muffings
back when the girls were small.  Then life got busy, the girls grew up
and Steve went on his anti bacon kick.  Now that the girls are gone,
Thomas's makes a 100% muffin, and there's turkey bacon, we're doing it
usually Sunday mornings.

->  HN> to cook. And eating out is quicker and easier
->  HN> and often even cheaper!

-> He still ought to learn a few basics to impress the ladies. (G)

 hn> He seems to be pretty good at that
 hn> already, while we were there a group
 hn> of 5 young undergrads came out to
 hn> the labs from campus to visit for the
 hn> weekend. Maybe the helpless impression
 hn> works too! (grin) He's quite a nice fellow
 hn> and enjoyable to talk to. Before he could
 hn> come to the US for his post graduate work
 hn> he had to spend a year as a worker at a
 hn> shrimp farm! His Phd will be in aquaculture
 hn> and he's doing his doctoral research in
 hn> hormonal triggers to breeding in certain
 hn> crabs (I think).

Sounds fishy. (G)



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Ruth
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