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Skriven 2015-03-15 20:33:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: estimation 341
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-11-15  07:20 <=-

 ML>> I sort of goggled, then pointed out various economic and
 ML>> social indicators that proved that she indeed was rich, not
 ML>> just compared to foreigners or to the local townspeople. She
 ML>> acknowledged that but said that there were so many of her
 ML>> friends who were richer than she.
 NB>> It's all so relative, isn't it... ;)
 ML> She is essentially living off the interest of a trust from her
 ML> father's estate, medicare supplement included. The house is paid
 ML> for and well insulated. She'll never have to work -

The sort of independently wealthy that some of us only aspire to in our
daydreams... ;)

 ML> remarks with some pride that none of her friends works, in which
 ML> category she includes me, so I periodically remind her that at one
 ML> time I worked pretty darn hard and may occasionally have to do so
 ML> in the future.

Of course, as we all age, retirement kicks in, at least to some
extent... ;)  So we seemingly don't have to work...  ;)

 ML> She's maybe not a one percenter, but she's several notches
 ML> above most of us, I reckon.
 
And it sounds as if some of her richer friends probably are, technically
if nothing else, one percenters...  :)

 ML>> As far as compatibility goes, she reported to me that during
 ML>> her brief singlehood, someone suggested we get together for
 ML>> real, and she said "I'd rather rob graves." I didn't take
 ML>> that particularly as a testament to my attractiveness.
 NB>> Is she merely attached to a SO, or married again...?  So just friends
 NB>> sounds like your lot there... high end mothering isn't all that bad,
 NB>> either...  :)
 ML> She's attached to a SO, an old rediscovered boyfriend and
 ML> supposedly the love of her life, only he lives in LA. This
 ML> fact is good for me, as it deflects the question of why Annie
 ML> and I are not an item.

And leaves space for you to remain friends that do things together all
the same... :)  

 ML>> sauce has also got virtually no kick. They also offer Hoo Doo
 ML>> sauce, of which they say "On a scale of 1 to 10 its an 8."
 ML>> Wrong, St. Louis, it's a 3.
 NB>> That's the trouble with scales... one never knows what the 1 or the
 NB>> 10 really mean... no matter what the supposed comparisons are... ;)
 ML> The main problem with scales is if they are D-flat. 

Yeah, those can be pretty bad, too... ;)  I was more thinking of pain
scales.. or survey scales...  (G)

 ML> The heat scale used to be pretty straightforward, as it had well
 ML> defined ends, those being zero and habanero (100 to 300K), with
 ML> Dewitt and Gerlach distilling the 0 to 300K into a functional
 ML> 1-10 as follows, from the Whole Chile Pepper Book
   (chart snipped, but appreciated..)

I noted that cayenne, which I regularly go for, IS an 8... ;)

 ML> This chart is a quarter century old, and since then there have
 ML> been bred peppers in the Habanero bloodline that are up to 10%
 ML> capsaicin by weight, or 1.5 million units' worth. These are
 ML> usually but not always given fanciful Indianish names (the
 ML> "ghost" bit is said to be a translation of Hindi "bhut").
 
Which only pushes the scale further up... not making their 3 any more
validly higher on the scale, of course..  ;)   A newcomer to church, at
the same table at our church dinner today, was telling how he was given
a bottle of ghost pepper (sauce?) for his birthday... at the moment,
he's not planning to open the jar... ;)  

 ML>> Afterward some person in authority came and asked if
 ML>> everything had been to our satisfaction. We lied and said yes.
 NB>> Probably just as well... not likely a complaint at that point would
 NB>> have done much for you anyway...  :)
 ML> Eh, it was food, decent enough but not worth waiting for the
 ML> bus in the cold for.

So probably not a place that one would return to on a subsequent
trip....  :)
 
 ML>> Verdict. Go to Sugarfire (as we didn't rent a car to get
 ML>> into an ice accident in, we didn't get there this trip).
 NB>> Probably a wise choice, given the weather situation... 
 ML> Weather's been kind of ugly this winter.

Certainly has... sigh... And the effects thereof, equally ugly... the
potholes are ridiculous...  Part of what's put me behind again was
losing most of Wednesday to getting two tires replaced after destroying
them in a pothole sequence under a railroad overpass... The tires were
only about a month old... good news was that they were covered in full
by the road hazard warranty so all I had to pay for was the reinstall
and new road hazard plan... bad news was that it killed the rest of the
day totally... I also decided it would be wise to have my mechanic check
that I didn't damage anything else in the incident, so that messed up my
Saturday (first chance they had to get me in)...  sigh... 

ttyl        neb

... I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.

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