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Skriven 2014-09-21 20:47:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: running around 981
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-20-14  10:35 <=-

 NB>> After I was more or less settled here in NYS, going elsewhere, even
 NB>> for just short trips, made me feel less restless...
 ML> If I were to be, heaven forfend, cut off from travel, I'd
 ML> still want substantial changes of venue, even if it meant
 ML> being wheeled down the road: it would make me feel less
 ML> restless as well.

Exactly.

 NB>> Back when we had more money coming in, Richard gladly bankrolled
 NB>> my trips, especially the ones with his mother for genealogy... made
 NB>> everyone happy, especially as he had no interest in traveling, and
 NB>> didn't mind being left alone...  :) 
 ML> Good when one's partner has complementary needs to one -
 ML> probably much better than when he has supplementary ones.

It's worked well for us...  :)
 
 ML> Retiring? His retirement job was deputy chairman of the
 ML> Central Bank of China, and when he retired from that,
 ML> they sent him to be the Taiwanese observer delegate to
 ML> OPEC. Sy's father probably had a better attitude, probably, 
 ML> and it isn't clear what degree or type of assistance my
 ML> grandfather got from him anyway. I'm guessing that Sy's
 ML> father would vent about whatever situation it was around
 ML> the dinner table, and Sy got the idea (perhaps unjustified)
 ML> that my grandfather was soaking him of millions that would
 ML> otherwise have gone to Sy and his brother. 

Ah... Probably unjustified, from the sounds of it... :)  Maybe Sy's
father was just a little envious of the globetrotting, and so did a
grumble to downplay it...  ;)

 ML> My grandfather had the reputation of being the only honest
 ML> guy in Chiang's government. Perhaps it's true - he certainly
 ML> didn't amass huge sums the way many of his friends did.

And it sounds like he might not have had time to have spent much of it,
other than in travel...  ;)

 ML> The smallness of my inheritance (he had at least a dozen
 ML> grandkids, anyway) is a partial testament to that.

A dozen plus into even a reasonably good-sized inheritance would make
for somewhat small segments, after all...  I got $600 from my gram, her
estate was split between 16 grandchildren and 3 daughters (who got
double shares of it)... probably would tot up to something that looked
like a lot more before it got divvied up...  ;) 

 ML>> In my case, it's a string of small inheritances,
 ML>> but the concept is the same.
 NB>> And with no one you have to leave it to, you might as well use it
 NB>> yourself... makes a lot of sense to me.
 ML> I used to give to charity; this latest tendency of mine
 ML> may reflect an idea that charities don't do a whole lot
 ML> of good.

I tend to pick and choose my charity giving carefully... too many even
of the reasonably meritorious to be able to give to everyone...
 
 ML>> tested for chemicals. I figure it couldn't be an explosives
 ML>> check but rather a drug check, as in recent months I have been
 ML>> visiting places famous for psychotropic substances. I am quite
 NB>> Might have been explosives

 ML> Neh. The procedure was all wrong. This guy did a detailed and
 ML> (to a normal person) embarrassing body check and then tested
 ML> his gloves using the chemical sniffer - an action that would
 ML> not make sense for explosives but might for other kinds of
 ML> contraband.

Hmmm...  puts a slightly different light on mine, then, too...

ttyl      neb

... I am Mommy of Borg-no dessert til broccoli is assimilated

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