Text 9854, 92 rader
Skriven 2014-02-13 23:56:36 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 9696 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: domestic travel 2 172
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 09 Feb 14  01:37:00 <=-

 ML>> Back in Boston now (snowed in), but the meal in question was
 NB>> By now you must have been released?
 ML> It didn't take long, and United got me to Washington,
 ML> though it took me 36 hours, including two flights after
 ML> five or six cancellations, and an extra night in a hotel.

Just a little trying, eh...?  :)

 ML> During the extra night I staggered out through the snow
 ML> to Santarpio's, where I was so tired and out of breath
 ML> the hostess asked if I was asthmatic or something; only
 ML> after I'd assured her that I'd be okay was I allowed to
 ML> sit at the bar for my lamb tips and sausage with a half
 ML> bottle of red wine (terrible inky stuff, but cheap and
 ML> alcoholic). 

She didn't want any casualties laid to her door, I see..  :)  You had
far more snow on the coast than we did inland... mostly dustings to an
inch or so, only one storm that over the course of a day+ gave us maybe
8"...  :)

 ML> The tips, quite fatty, were about medium-well (I asked for
 ML> them extra rare), but the fat made them palatable, same as
 ML> at the Shaanxi place found in a post in this packet. The
 ML> sausage, handmade by an idiot, looked more turdlike than
 ML> any I'd ever seen before, even tapering at the end in such
 ML> a way. It was coarse ground, which I like, and probably
 ML> 40% chunks of fat, which I also like. There's a rumor that
 ML> the manager, son of the owner, is trying to cut corners,
 ML> but so far the corners being cut are ones I don't mind.

Leading to food being more the way you prefer it..  :)

 ML>> in Vegas and turned out to be quite reasonable. We made up
 ML>> for it later by having the cut of the week at Charlie Palmer
 ML>> Steak, which is a special deal at $48 for a 3-course prix
 ML>> fixe. More later.
 NB>> Ah...  Eagerly awaiting that report too....  :)  $48 as a special
 NB>> deal...? Ach...!  :)  Guess you did make up for it...  :)
 ML> Also in another post in this packet. $48 turned out to be a
 ML> considerably good deal, as it included more than a bottle of
 ML> wine that retails for almost $20 per in the discount stores.

Saw the report... :)  Yes, that does seem like a better deal when put
that way...  :)

 ML>> offchance I might get someone to drive me there, and I think
 ML>> it was Farmington, New Mexico, but it's been a while, and I
 ML>> don't really care anymore.
 NB>> It could be a kinda neat place to visit... but if one has already been
 NB>> in all four states, not quite the cachet it might have... ;)
 ML> I've been in all four, but not at the same time! There are pix
 ML> on the Web of people doing just that, some with one limb in
 ML> each. Reminds me of one of the events that made me view adult
 ML> statements with skepticism - I was well down in the single
 ML> digits when my father, wanting a companion on one of his
 ML> pointless drives, told me that we could go to Harper's Ferry,
 ML> which he characterized as the only place where three states
 ML> met. Uh, dad?

Probably something else modifying the statement that never was
verbalized...  ;)  Like, maybe, states of mind...?   ;)

 ML> Speaking of which, an idle glance shows that there are at least
 ML> two places where four Mexican states meet: Jalisco-Zacatecas-
 ML> San Luis Potosi-Guanajuato (I think I've been in all of these,
 ML> at least three at least) and Zacatecas-San Luis Potosi-Nuevo
 ML> Leon-Coahuila (I've been in all four, pretty sure).

So far, I've never been to Mexico, that I know of... someday, maybe... 

 ML>> I'm not showing up until the week after Easter, as it
 ML>> turns out. My schedule is filling rapidly.
 NB>> Much in demand, are you...?  Bodes well for surviving your homeless
 NB>> status... less well for those who'd like to share your presence... ;)

 ML> Nomadic is more like ... .
 
Oh, ok...  ;)

 ML> I'll be in Williamsport for the week after Easter, so
 ML> we will see about the feline dynamic there. 

By then the newest arrival should be well settled in... :)

ttyl       neb

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