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Skriven 2015-04-30 15:25:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: practicalities 581
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 04-28-15  14:43 <=-

 ML>> And once in a while I'll deign to go out to lunch with
 ML>> him (or he'll deign to go out to lunch with me), so I
 ML>> get my pound of flesh.
 NB>> Balance out the diet a little bit, anyway...  ;)
 ML> I've never eaten a balanced diet, being an opportunistic
 ML> feeder myself. I prefer a high-protein high-fat low-carb
 ML> diet, but that's not always what I get. The pound of flesh
 ML> gets metabolized on its lonesome (possibly helped out with
 ML> a few carbs from beer) and thereupon has little effect (i.e.
 ML> doesn't interact with other intake) on my well-being.

I was speaking in a rather relative sense, in any case... not in the
strict dietician's point of view of a balanced diet... ;)  And I learned
a long time ago that what one ate over the course of days was a more
accurate assessment than just one day's intake... especially in the
context of reassuring worried mothers of toddlers who would only eat one
thing for multiple days that the kids weren't irreparably harming their
health and well-being...  ;)   Now, if we are talking complementary
proteins, those probably do have to be imbibed within a certain short
span of each other to work properly...  :)  But we weren't...  ;)

 ML>> This week the special was on Hershey's Special Dark,
 ML>> and I can verify that it tastes quite similar.
 NB>> Less peanut-like undertone...?
 ML> Pretty much the same, actually. Special Dark, as I noted
 ML> someplace earlier, has added lactose for reasons unknown
 ML> to me. I was too greedy with the Cadbury to be able to do
 ML> a direct comparison (i.e., I forgot about this goal and
 ML> wolfed the bar down without thinking).

Tsk, tsk...  ;)   I note that the Cadbury Dark mini-eggs package doesn't
list any lactose, although the Special Dark did... would that change the
taste, or just the way it hits your system...?
 
 ML>> see - I just plunked down $490 for the prescription; the
 ML>> glasses arrive in 10 days to 2 weeks.
 NB>> The new glasses employ the new technology...?
 ML> The main problem was that a full correction would have
 ML> required inch-thick glass, and the astigmatic correction
 ML> could not be properly done with that material anyway, and
 ML> one has to think about my poor nose; so the nice thin plastic
 ML> lenses were a compromise in the first place. Now a couple
 ML> things have come up - my right eyeball has rounded enough that
 ML> they are not going to bother to correct for the astigmatism
 ML> any more; also, plastics technology has apparently come a ways
 ML> since I last looked into the subject. So I am going to be
 ML> correctable to -3 or so, which I think would be legal to
 ML> drive, but I'm still not going to do so.
 
Don't blame you on that one... driving isn't just seeing, it's also
reflexes built up and all... But having glasses that let you see better
will be helpful for lots of other things....  :)

 ML>>> I thank my lucky stars.
 NB>>> Do you have him officially designated as health proxy?
 ML>> Proxy and HCPOA. I'm taking no risks in that arena.
 NB>> Very wise.  :)
 ML> I don't want to be under my brother's control in any way -
 ML> not for his bona fides, which are I believe genuine in a
 ML> fanatic Catholic sort of way, but for his incredible judgment.

Can't say as I could disagree with you in the least there... I'd
certainly avoid that with any means possible...  :)

ttyl         neb

... I have made a reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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