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Skriven 2009-10-01 19:12:10 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: RE: spoiled 213
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Hiya Michael!

->  HN> I have some Japanese friends who tell
->  HN> me that Japanese tastes run counter to
->  HN> mine, they seem to prize the "hot" rawness
->  HN> of scotches like Cutty, where I tend to look
->  HN> for the smoother peaty ones.
-> 
-> That's true in most Asian cultures, where rawness is equated
-> with strength. About 15 years ago, I was invited to my second
-> cousin Paul's house and had arranged for a shipment of Sweet
-> Sloops to be sent to his house. Of course, UPS lost the package
-> (it was found a couple months later and returned to sender, all
-> goopy and disgusting), so I parted with a couple bottles of
-> Rodney Strong Chalk Hill Chardonnay, which I had brought thousands
-> of miles to be savored by myself at the opportune time ... this
-> didn't go over exceptionally well as a gift, because it was
-> smooth and subtle rather than strong, plus it contained only
-> 12% or so alcohol.
-> 
So strong is better even if it's not? Makes it easy
to buy scotch for the Asian consumer then, I'd just 
buy whatever I don't like! (grin)

->  HN> Told you those BlueJays were a thorn in
->  HN> our posterior! Halliday just gives us fits!
->  HN> We're 4.5 back of the Rangers and have a
->  HN> good chance to catch them. We don't 
->  HN> have to play the Angels anymore, and Texas
->  HN> has to play them 4 times (grin) Bad for Tex
->  HN> good for Us!
-> 
-> The Sox looked pretty poor against the Yankees the last couple
-> games. If Texas goes 7-1 and the Sox 1-7 for the rest of the
-> season, Texas will get the WC berth.
->
As I'm sure you know by now the Sox 
have the wildcard locked...texas has
gotten whacked by the angels...and 
we've whacked the A's twice in a row 
with some pretty good games. I got 
tonight off as we were overstaffed 
for the expected attendance and 
I needed a chance to do a few other
things( and rest my knee) today.
We are now 3 games back of Texas
with 4 games left to play, three of them
with Texas...and we're at home and
they're not. As they say, our destiny
is in our own hands at this point. 
 
->  -> Unfortunately, this wireless adapter seems to have gone
->  -> kaflooey again, so I will have to do things by dialup until
->  -> I figure out what's what.
->  HN> Boo on Dialup!
->  
-> I reinstalled the wireless adapter software, and it seems to be
-> working. Cross fingers.
->
Hope it works well. I'm threatening to change
cable TV providers at this point. I'm fed up 
with Comcast's idea of customer service. Back
in mid August, they called us and let us know
that we needed to order a digital box to continue
to get all our channels and we ordered one at
that time...well it has not arrived yet and today
more than half of my channels have a picture of
a digital box with the message that I NEED the 
digital box to see em.....I called customer support
and got the automated run around for about 20 
minutes before I got a live person on the phone.
by that time I was in full rage mode and she
got both barrels and I still had plenty of ammo.
I'm currently waiting (not holding my breath) for
a "senior" customer rep to call me back...yeah
and the check's in the mail too.......as soon as
the ball season is over (sunday) I'm gonna call
the city run cable company and have them 
come and hook me up...and tell comcast to
come and collect their crap and neve darken
my door again.
 
-> Jeremy Bryant's Southwest crab cake
-> cat: Mariners, baseball, main
-> yield: 12
-> 
Jeremy's a nice guy, I've had his folks
in my section at the ball park several
times!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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