Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 04-25-19 10:11 <=-

Self-aggrandizement tends to backfire....

I beg to differ! There are always enough
gullible ones to line the pockets of the
culprits.

There is that... sadly.... But eventually enough will figure it out...

But enough won't, so that slime is rewarded on
balance, especially in the short run. Harking
back to an earlier post, it's especially galling on
the social level, where someone's short-term gain
is someone else's long-term loss.

Indeed. Sometimes it all works out in the end... Admittedly, not as
often or as well as one might like....

So, not only was Pearl mediocre, it had billed itself as wonderful... that IS a comedown...

It was. But it wasn't far.

You mean, distance from where you were staying...?

As in downstairs.

Convenience ruled... but might not again...?

By the way, the free drink coupon that the desk clerk
promised was good for two was in fact good for only one.

Sounds like he should have given you two coupons...

Correct, both by my lights and by the rules.

Young and inexperienced....? Or might it have been intentional...?

I asked the same question. If he was manager,
I could see him trying to pad his bottom line.

In which case perhaps it would have been reportable...?

To whom?

Corporate...?

to have, I think she said, a couple hundred... not counting solo pieces for piano... And then they both went on to say that every performance, they learn something new from each piece.... The flutist was Russian... Both ladies' first name was Irina, I don't remember the last names...

Irina seems to be a common name among Soviet-era
musical women, I'm not sure why. I'd be more inclined
to expect Galina. My Irina hasn't RSVPed to my call
for a dinner meeting tomorrow night, though a couple
other semi-gray eminences have.

I guess one can't help what one's parents named one... ;) Did your
Irina at least show up...?

She never responded, and one of the original yeses
didn't show up for either dinner or the meeting. We
ended up not having a quorum, but we faked it.

Sounds like you either need new blood, or a lower quorum... ;)

pressure - just a kind of reluctance and queasiness.

Well within your capabilities, if not within your comfort zone or favorite thing to be doing....

Almost everything I did was well within my
theoretical capabilities, and the two or three
times they weren't, well, it was horrible if
only for a couple seconds at a time.

It helps when one can fake well.... ;)

The proliferation of tape recorders was a
terrible thing.

Capturing for posterity as they did, all the glitches....

Is it recommendable?

Canoleo margerine... made only with canola oil... and does tend to act mostly like butter, if not tasting exactly like butter, but does taste

Oh, yeah, I've heard of that - maybe you or another
echo person brought it up.

like something good instead of something nasty.... And also didn't give
me the usual margarine side-effects... I was getting it at Wegmans,
though not all the stores carried it... mostly I was buying it for MJ,
as it was lactose-free which she needed, but did have it on hand here as well.... Haven't bought it now for quite a while, so not sure if it is
still available or not....

Yeah, it was you who mentioned it.

Yup. :)

ttyl neb

... For carnival we put masks over our masks.

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