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Skriven 2008-09-13 21:51:56 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: keeping cool
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Hi Ruth!
-> 
-> ->  hn> ecologist society symposium back on the east
-> ->  hn> coast earlier in the spring.
-> 
-> -> Must have been interesting.
-> 
->  hn> From what she told us it was, but in typical
->  hn> Amanda fashion, she found a way to make it
->  hn> a much less expensive trip, even though her
->  hn> grant money would have covered her costs.
->  hn> She and 3 other scientists shared a room
->  hn> with two king beds and split the costs...and
->  hn> actually ended up with two more folks sleeping
-> 
-> With a loaf of bread & jars of peanut butter & jelly for meals?
-> 
We never spoke of the meals...knowing Amanda
she'd probably gotten bagels and cream cheese!
-> 
->  hn> on the floor! Me? I would have gone for the
->  hn> room alone...I like my little bit of solitude
->  hn> and reflection at the end of the day! (grin)
-> 
-> But they're young enough to enjoy the camaraderie of the group thing.
->
I like it quiet when I'm sleeping (grin)

-> ->  hn> of the term "free time"!
-> 
-> -> It's about time!  She wa going to find that all work could wear her out
-> -> too fast.  Besides, she had to do something to relieve the stress of
-> -> research & study--kneading bread is a great way to relieve the tension.
-> 
->  hn> She's learning that!
-> 
-> Good for her--and for you for  getting across to her to do so.
->
I think she finally figured it out for herself...or just
got tired of listening to me about it (grin)

-> 
->  hn> Good to know your schedule, good to be flexible too (grin)
-> 
-> Yes, and we are more flexible now.  Used to be, when I was Sunday School
-> Director, I didn't take a week off without prior planning.  We do take
-> off now & again on week end jaunts; thinking about Charleston in
-> November.
-> 
Charleston is a very pretty town, and the 
temps in November won't be too bad!
 
-> ->  hn> in aquariums...and it "escaped" from the Monaco Aquarium
-> ->  hn> and has now become the poster child for invasive species
-> ->  hn> invasions. On the surface you say "it's just a seaweed, what's
-> 
-> -> And several years ago, Lake Wilson in Wahiawa was overtaken by 
salvinia
-> -> molesta, probably from somebody's aquarium.  The whole lake was 
covered
-> -> with the algae & it took an Army (engineer troops from Schofield) to
-> 
->  hn> Yeppers, invasive species are having more and more
->  hn> impact throughout the "global economy" and the
->  hn> transmission vectors are not being addressed
->  hn> because they "cost money". Of course the repercussions
->  hn> seem to be more expensive by factors of 100 or more
->  hn> but the savings were all gained by the original
->  hn> perp, who was saving a few pennies at the time.
-> 
-> And who has gotten off without any punishment because authorities can't
-> pin down who the culprit was.
->
that too.
-> 
-> ->  hn> that several Professors have been working on is closing down
-> ->  hn> primarily because of that. Now the fact that all those little
-> ->  hn> blue lobsters are all boys doesn't seem to matter.
->  hn> ->
-> -> No comment. (G)
->  hn> ->
->  hn> Amanda told us a funny story about a local wacko.
->  hn> She goes to the market and buys Lobsters...live ones
->  hn> that you get out of a tank...and then goes and reseases
->  hn> them into the bay...no one knows if she's trying to get
->  hn>  a lobster fishery started in Bodega bay or if she's just
->  hn> wanting them to "run free". But since all the lobsters
->  hn> you see in the market are males...there's not much of
->  hn> a likelyhood of them having little lobs (grin) so all her
->  hn> expensive offerings to the bay will never multiply.
-> 
-> To quote Burt--"now that's funny!".
-> 
-> 
Indeed!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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