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Skriven 2014-09-21 22:03:06 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 17204 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: running around 984
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Hi Michael,

 ML> I remember that - it was amazing how you managed to
 ML> cope with those difficulties.
 RH> Just taking things one day at a time. Sometimes even smaller "bites",
 RH> if needed.

 ML> Making a coping strategy that works for you is important.

Very--it helps you get thru a lot of things that would be very hard to
deal with, had you not had any sort of "game plan". Sometimes you have
to look at the whole forest, other times you can focus on individual
trees. Either way will help get you get thru a situation but you've got
to know which way to look at things.

 RH> OK, we never got into the grocery stores when we were on either Maui
 RH> or the Big Island.

 ML> One of my hobbies, somewhat diminished as my eyesight and
 ML> attention span sorsen, is to check out local grocery stores
 ML> wherever I go. Until recently, Hawaii and Ireland had among

We've done that a lot too. Sometimes when we're in a new place and
settling in, sometimes just visiting an area and have time to kill (and
nothing better to do), but it's fun.


 ML> the saddest assortments of things, because of their relative
 ML> isolation. I've not yet gone to really godforsaken places
 ML> like New Guinea or Iceland but would imagine the culinary
 ML> choices to be quite limited.

Not so for HI--they do import just about everything but the variety of
imports is quite large. They import from any and everywhere, but mostly
Asian/Pacific countries (naturally), and a lot of things you wounld
never expect to see in a store anywhere else.


 RH> You should be able to do it by the end of the year. Maybe one or two
 RH> half crazy routings but not 5 segments to go a few hundred miles.

 ML> One trip to Monterey that I would normally take United for
 ML> but changed to US Air got me close. And Annie convinced me
 ML> to go visit some old friends of ours in Fort Walton Beach,
 ML> so that's 4 more segments - no sooner than I'd bought my
 ML> ticket, a big concert came up for that period, one that I am
 ML> almost but not quite obligated to play in.

So you're going to skip the concert or do a fly in, play, fly out? As of
now, we're probably not going to head north probably until next spring,
unless we have to for family matters. We're talking about going to FL in
a couple of months to check on my brother and visit Steve's parents,
probably around Thanksgiving. May try to stop in Savannah on out way
down or back, possibly work in a trip to Uncle Bubba's for some seafood.

 ML> I'm not into that so much. That was one of the saddest parts
 ML> of this nation's history; I don't understand the enthusiasm
 ML> (obsession might be a better word in some cases) a lot of
 ML> people feel about the era.
 RH> Just an interest in that part of our nation's history. Same as, but
 RH> not quite as much an interest in the Revolutionay War era. Major nation
 RH> shaping times, both of them. Also interesting to speculate on the
 RH> "what ifs" of both periods.

 ML> I'm not usually a what-if thinker but could see that sort
 ML> of thing being interesting. Still sad to dwell on, which
 ML> the Revolution isn't.

Just depends on what you're interested in.

 ML> Lamb-yogurt dish (KALAJOSH)
 ML> cat: Armenian, main
 ML> servings: 6

Interesting, but it does look good. We went out to an Ethiopian
restaurant for our anniversary last night--had a meat sampler and
vegetarian sampler plates, both put on one big platter. A bit on the
spicy side, but not unreasonably so. I wouldn't mind doing that again as
it gave both of us a wider variety of foods to try. Told a friend about
it today; she said she'd like to try it some time as well.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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