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Skriven 2014-11-20 19:47:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: (un)wishful thinking
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 11-17-14  05:14 <=-

 ML>> inside. Also, on inquiry it came out that he had to
 ML>> pay for his own plane ticket, which is a bad sign to
 ML>> start with.
 NB>> Um.  Yeah, not a good sign...  Depending on the interviewer, though,
 NB>> one never knows... maybe they want someone just like him...??  ;) 
 ML> The best scenario for him was if they wanted the certification
 ML> more than the employee. There was a day when companies would
 ML> hire a CCIE (the highest certification, the CCNP the next
 ML> highest) just to be on call, so they could claim another warm
 ML> body just for the credential 

That could work if never called upon, I'd guess...  Any developments
there...? 

 ML> - there were a couple folks I knew who were on staff at
 ML> multiple firms, with only sporadic duties at any of them.
 ML> Seemed hard to keep track, and what if they were tapped
 ML> for two assignments at the same time? I guess the risks
 ML> were worth the benefits (lots and lots of money), though.

Multitasking with a vengeance...?  I suppose some people might be able
to handle that sort of stress and juggling.... unless it entailed being
two places literally at once...  ;0

 ML>> Turns out a false alarm. He was at the radiology office
 ML>> for some purpose that had nothing to do with anything,
 ML>> and his electronic tether "checked him in" and
 ML>> broadcast to the universe that he was there.
 NB>> Score 0 for electronic tether accuracy...  Good that it was a false
 NB>> alarm, though.
 ML> Indeed. I don't understand this whole system of automatic
 ML> checking in via device. I'm told I lose many hotel points
 ML> by not participating, but it seems stupid to me.

I'm with you on that... guess that makes us old fuddy-duddys... ;)
 
 ML>> Turns out they gave me 2 liters of fluid and 2 units, so
 ML>> I lost round about 5 pints, a substantial proportion of my
 ML>> blood supply.
 NB>> Not good, but at least you got it replaced... glad that's over with,
 NB>> too... :)
 ML> Wow - half my blood went down the drain, and I was
 ML> at almost precisely half my normal blood pressure
 ML> (top was 63 to 70, bottom 40 to 45). Other than that
 ML> I was healthy all the way and felt as though I was
 ML> an impostor other than the hemorrhage. 

Scary statistics... the otherwise healthy is probably why you are still
with us... the hemorrhage certainly kept you from being an impostor...

 ML> By the way, the spelling imposter, incorrect, is
 ML> gaining hold. So too with Zanthoxylum, the correct
 ML> spelling being Xanthoxylum  (the ignorant one beats
 ML> the right one 5 to 1 in Google, but that's one of
 ML> the downsides of pushing universal literacy but not
 ML> really providing it). By the way, the incorrect
 ML> "Capsicum chinense" beats the correct "sinense" by
 ML> almost 100 to 1. Those being Szechwan pepper and
 ML> Habanero pepper respectively.
 
The perils of being not-quite educated fully... and of mass
confusion.... ;)  I can see the wrong phonetic (somewhat) spelling of
the former, but it doesn't make it right... any more than the probable
thought processes that would come up with the latter wrong spelling.

 NB>> Meanwhile, I noticed that I had a chunk of that Cabot Seriously Sharp
 NB>> cheese sitting in my meat/cheese drawer... It has potential for
 NB>> actually being rather sharp, as it is well past its expiry date...  ;) 
 NB>> Still unopened... I forget when and why I got it... maybe a coupon...
 ML> Let it sit another year and maybe it will be okay.

I suspect it's already a few (or more) years well past the
expiration....  :)

 ML> Some authorities say for home aging you unwrap your
 ML> food and rewrap it in porous cloth. For Cheddar I
 ML> have found that unnecessary - you just get the hardest,
 ML> driest you can find and leave it in its vacuum seal
 ML> for a year or two.

I tend to do unintentional aging of food.  Sometimes it comes out ok
after all...  ;)

ttyl        neb

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