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Skriven 2015-06-27 15:57:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: goofalumps 870
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 06-20-15  13:20 <=-

 ML>> 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep and might in fact be able to
 ML>> function most of today.
 NB>> Sleep is a good thing... especially when one has been somewhat
 NB>> deprived thereof... 
 ML> I try my best to make the time, as there is little I enjoy more
 ML> than eating and sleeping (my mother used to point that out,
 ML> repeatedly, as I slogged through school and into Harvard - "all
 ML> you ever do is eat and sleep." What a pain in the tushie was she.
 ML> Anyhow, often one can't make the time, and when one does, actually
 ML> getting the rest is often easier said than done.

Finding the time can be the rub... especially when duty calls... ;)  I
was off to the Pond Mon-Tues (delivering my son to his vehicle etc), and
got a late night call from my sister, following the ambulance to the
hospital for our mom.. she fell and broke her hip... I ended up driving
from the Pond to the hospital, and then volunteering to take the
overnight shift with her so that my sister could get some sleep...
Mommy's back home now, we pulled off the skip rehab bit again... Playing
havoc with sleep and eating schedules, of course...  ;)
 
 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.
 NB>> So, double the money available...?   Is the squander mostly because of
 NB>> the emphasis on young rather than accomplished...?
 ML> Perhaps that's part of it, but the main thing is that they're
 ML> caught up in charisma and buzzwords and other things that I
 ML> find dishonest and sometimes hateful.

I wouldn't blame you for just leaving them to their own devices...
unless you think you have much leverage for balancing their actions
there... 

 ML>> My brain is beginning to adapt! I cannot now read with any
 ML>> facility at any distance.
 NB>> Oh, great...  ;0   Not quite the right adaptation...
 ML> I've found that perching them way at the end of my nose may help,

Not too bad... just awkward... ;)

 ML> as no doubt will the building up of the nosepieces at
 ML> the optical shop next month.

One can but hope..  :)
 
 NB>> lovely (mock) tartan umbrella in Edinburgh station one VERY rainy day
 NB>> when I had taken the train from Glasgow (where we were staying) with
 NB>> two young lads (my son and the same-aged son of our hosts) to do the
 NB>> sights... That one was big enough to keep the three of us mostly dry as
 NB>> we did the walk up to Edinburgh Castle...  :)  I lost it a few years
 NB>> later, when I wasn't allowed to take it on the plane as carryon, and it
 NB>> never arrived with my checked luggage... 
 ML> Lilli and I were given lovely pale blue Austrian Airlines
 ML> umbrellas during one of our events, and we had to leave
 ML> them behind when we got on a plane that wasn't Austrian.
 ML> Too bad, also.

Oh, well..
 
 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.
 NB>> Oh (she says disappointedly)...  And here I was looking forward to
 NB>> it.... :)
 ML> Nagging may have its effect.

Nag, nag... if it helps...  Actually it's mostly idle curiosity, as
usual... (G)
 
 ML>> pleasant stays, but why doesn't anyone live within walking
 ML>> distance of a United hub?
 NB>> We're at least (potentially) walking distance from the airport,
 NB>> anyway... didn't have the forethought to settle in a hub city... ;)
 ML> Relatively few do, and of the hubs, only Guam and maybe San Fran
 ML> and Newark (if you want to do some traffic dodging) are really
 ML> accessible on foot to residential areas; who would want to live
 ML> in the one or be able to afford the other.

Definitely good points..  
 
 NB>> ... I've repeatedly reiterated, again and again, don't be redundant.
 ML> That's an ancient old adage of unimportant insignificance,
 ML> as one of the Rumpole characters might have said.

I learned it at my Daddy's knee... so to speak... :)

ttyl       neb

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