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     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-13-15  07:03 <=-

 NB>> Minus sleep and overplus of beer certainly could cause some "minor"
 NB>> inefficiencies in the system... quite understandably...  ;)
 ML> Last night I passed up an invitation to party with a bunch
 ML> of wine connoisseurs at an apartment diagonally across the
 ML> street from one of Lady Gaga's, so you know the neighborhood
 ML> is nice, and the wine would most likely be as well. I got
 ML> 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep and might in fact be able to
 ML> function most of today.

Sleep is a good thing... especially when one has been somewhat deprived
thereof... 
 
 ML> The committee I am committed to encourages young
 ML> musicians, the one I have always from the beginning found a
 ML> bit of a millstone funds young musical organizations and
 ML> seems to emphasize the young over the accomplished. The good
 ML> thing about splitting the duties is that the board of directors
 ML> now funds both committees at a level about equal to what the
 ML> one committee that had been charged with both duties got. The
 ML> bad thing is that the second committee as described seems bent
 ML> on squandering its appropriation.

So, double the money available...?   Is the squander mostly because of
the emphasis on young rather than accomplished...?
 
 NB>>> The rest has been answered already...  ;)
 ML>> That sort of thing happens in this forum, doesn't it.
 NB>> Especially with repetitions... ;)
 ML> ||: You can say that again. :||

Cute... ;)
 
 NB>> Possible.  With the eye-brain connection in flux, maybe other pathways
 NB>> are also affected... not that I'd've expected that, but it was a
 NB>> rather major change in correction, to be sure...
 ML> My brain is beginning to adapt! I cannot now read with any
 ML> facility at any distance.

Oh, great...  ;0   Not quite the right adaptation...

 NB>>> I do use the umbrella to keep the rain away, but it's only
 NB>>> occasionally successful...  ;)
 ML>> I seldom get decent results from umbrellas.
 NB>> It works best as a way to keep rain off of one... assuming one has it
 NB>> with one when it is needed...  :)
 ML> Doesn't do that for me most of the time, because the rainy
 ML> cities I frequent are usually windy ones as well; plus the
 ML> only really sturdy umbrella I ever had got lost or stolen
 ML> some decades ago.

Windy doesn't help, true...  I have a decent one I bought some years ago
at Wegmans to replace one that went astray...  I had bought a lovely
(mock) tartan umbrella in Edinburgh station one VERY rainy day when I
had taken the train from Glasgow (where we were staying) with two young
lads (my son and the same-aged son of our hosts) to do the sights...
That one was big enough to keep the three of us mostly dry as we did the
walk up to Edinburgh Castle...  :)  I lost it a few years later, when I
wasn't allowed to take it on the plane as carryon, and it never arrived
with my checked luggage... 

 ML>> Heh, heh, they'll have figured it out.
 NB>> Yeah... she already has... ;)   So now she's expecting it.  :)
 ML> Hah, maybe I'll cross you all up and not do one.

Oh (she says disappointedly)...  And here I was looking forward to
it.... :)
 
 ML>> 15th. I will probably be able to dump a suitcase of clothes
 ML>> in Maryland and retrieve more weather-appropriate attire.
 NB>> Plans do have a way of morphing...  ;)  You could probably stay here,
 NB>> if you wished...  :)
 ML> I have had offers from various members here and have on a
 ML> few occasions taken you up on them. They have all been
 ML> pleasant stays, but why doesn't anyone live within walking
 ML> distance of a United hub?

We're at least (potentially) walking distance from the airport,
anyway... didn't have the forethought to settle in a hub city... ;)

 NB>> Finally connected with Burt today... we're going to go check out the
 NB>> second Tandoor location later this month... He sounded more positive
 NB>> about possibly making it to part of the picnic... said the drive isn't
 NB>> going to be an issue... and the loft apartment seemed potentially
 NB>> doable.  We aren't at commitment yet, but not ruling it out either. 
 ML> Keep us posted.

Will do... :)
 
 NB>> ... I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.
 ML> There are those.
 ML> Milkshake
 ML> categories: beverage, New England
 ML> 1 c milk, regular or chocolate
 ML> Shake milk in shaker with or without ice. Strain into
 ML> a 10 oz glass. Serve with a straw.
 ML> This is what you might get in Boston if you ordered
 ML> a milkshake back when I spent most of my time there.
 ML> If you want what the rest of the world thinks of as
 ML> a milkshake, you order a frappe (no accent on the end).

I've heard of those..  :)  Both of them... ;)

ttyl       neb

... I've repeatedly reiterated, again and again, don't be redundant.

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