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Skriven 2015-10-12 13:10:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: travel(l)ing 316
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-11-15  18:28 <=-

 > Do I understand correctly from that that Swisher is joining you in
 > Europe...?  Or is it a flight back to the states to meet up with him
 > and then return to plans in Europe...?  :)
 ML> Swisher met Lilli and me in Paris, and then he drove us
 ML> down to Ian and Jacquie's, a good thing as Lilli was 
 ML> getting tired of driving me around.

Ah.  Yes, I gathered as much from later messages...  I'm sure that Lilli
was glad for the respite...  :)

 ML> Interesting fact: whenever Lilli was in the car, we would
 ML> get lost, and neither GPS would rescue us. Now that she's
 ML> gone back to the US, and Swisher and I are wandering
 ML> around alone, we get lost seldom, and the GPSes
 ML> (Swisher's, a Garmin bought on eBay, and the TomTom built
 ML> into the car) are not misleading us nearly so badly. Of
 ML> course, we are in less populous areas now.
 
Sounds probably purely circumstantial to me... ;)  But, maybe the GPSes
are more accurate in less populous areas, due to less likely changes
there, thus less out-of-date...?   :)

 >  ML> Thank goodness for that - and for the fact that
 >  ML> the Lufthansa crews haven't been tight-butted
 >  ML> enough to insist that my and Lilli's stuff have
 >  ML> to fit into the sizer boxes.
 > Both very good things... :)
 ML> Turns out that my main piece of luggage fits into the
 ML> sizer boxes, or would but for the fact that the handle
 ML> thingy is broken, stuck into a half-extended position.
 ML> Got to do a consultation with the others to see if some
 ML> fix can be accomplished; if not, I'm not sure how I'm 
 ML> going to handle things. I really want to make this piece
 ML> last until I get back to the States.

Good luck on that.  :)

 >  > Sounds like a win-win situation, pretty much, then... She still has
 >  > contact with her beloved students, the admin doesn't lose a valuable
 >  > asset, and she has something interesting to be doing that shouldn't be
 >  > quite so physically tiring...  :) 
 >  ML> Exactly. The school administration has been very supportive,
 >  ML> and she's been put in a position where she can do the most
 >  ML> good for the least wear and tear on herself.
 > And gives her a solid reason to keep fighting to live...a very good
 > thing... :)
 ML> Anne is fighting quite gracefully, and with any kind of
 ML> luck, winning.

Very good.  :)
 
 >  ML> explosive terrorists seem to like crowded places, but if
 >  ML> you go way in the other direction, you're more likely to
 >  ML> be picked off for, say, kidnapping for ransom, in the way
 >  ML> that the elk that gets separated from its herd gets beset
 >  ML> by wolves.
 > I think he has enough sense not to go that far in the other direction...
 > at any rate, it appears that he won't be going back there soon, at least
 > not for the next boat job
 ML> When did I write that? I have heard that Ankara got kaboomed 
 ML> yesterday or the day before. At least it's not a seaport.
 ML> Glad he's not gadding about around there. Also glad I'm not.

End of September...  ;)  Yeah, that's definitely an area that seems to
be getting less safe... Just as well that the current job is based
stateside... or at least mostly... ;)  Did I mention, he's got a job on
a sailing yacht, currently based in Newport RI, and readying to sail
down the coast to winter in Charlestown SC... By the time they are ready
to sail south, hurricane season should be over... at least that's what
he tells me... ;)

 >  ML> It's still a clumsy makeshift, especially compared to the
 >  ML> neatness of the offline procedures I'd worked out, which
 >  ML> had the additional advantage of allowing me to usually
 >  ML> intercept big goofs.
 > I hear you... I'd figured that was what was happening... hopefully
 > you'll be able to go back to the more easily dealt with offline... but
 > it's still better to have you have at least some presence in the
 > meantime... :) 
 ML> So it appears I sent a batch of duplicates, not having easy
 ML> checking capability. Life being like that.

Guess you could check in email with some of us that save stuff... or
maybe even remember stuff on occasion... (G)

 ML> Catfish in the style of unagi
 ML> categories: mock, Japanese, sushi, main
 ML> M's note: this recipe was developed to make a
 ML> facsimile of an increasingly rare and expensive dish
 ML> out of cheaper and abundant raw materials.

And apparently is what Wegmans is doing now instead of unagi in their
store sushi... invoking the magic word sustainability, of course... at
least Fu still has the real stuff...  ;)

ttyl           neb

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