Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-24-19 05:50 <=-

This, though, was a case of the salesman admitting that durability was a thing of the past... told us we'd be lucky if it lasted 15 years, I
think he said... it's been close to that now, I'm guessing.... ;)

My comment wasn't a direct response to your
experience but rather was looking toward the
coasting on reputation of brands such as Maytag
and oh, it's slipped my mind ,,, .

Ah... There are a number such...

I was perhaps thinking of Amana, which along with
Maytag was gobbled up by I think Whirlpool.

I think you are correct there.... Amana is what we have still as an
upright freezer, and was what we'd bought shortly after moving here to
replace the fridge that came with the house... couldn't find any when
that one died, so we now have a Frigidaire... (The stove also came with
the house, and that hasn't died yet...)

With Lilli of course we have a long-standing travel
symbiosis, and we've taken two international trips
together this year (with two more planned). in Bonnie's
case, the tie is music, but we do a bit of wandering
as well. In both cases we're planning with an eye to
possible medical emergencies (for me too).

Wise. :)

I'm still occasionally having my doubts.

About the travel in general...? or in how safe the places you are
heading are for y'all as things are now...?

but whatever is being done now is practice for
apprentice spooks or something. Another possibility
is that everyone is being surveilled, just most
people don't notice.

I'd not discount that last... at least not totally... I'd think that
some might be easier to be surveilled than others, but suspect it
possible all the same.....

So often at a hotel or business my computer thinks
that I'm someplace odd, like in the middle of Iowa
or something, which is explicable because the company's
IT department is located there. Yesterday, it insisted
that I was at or near a pizza parlor called Nick's (I
wasn't), and continued to do so for maybe half an hour,
which counts as an oopsie on somebody's part. I presume
somebody was at or near a pizza parlor called Nick's.

Those ARE odd...

As I turned 64, it came to my awareness that when the Beatles wrote/sang that song they were much younger than 64 themselves... and it was all theoretical to them.... And how much my own viewpoint on what
constitutes being "old" has changed in those intervening years.... ;)

If indeed they reprised the song in later years, they
must have felt a frisson of irony. John, of course,
didn't get even close to that age.

True... the others have, though...

Who would they get to replace John? Julian?

Maybe just go as a threesome...?

Peanut and squid go pretty well together.

If you say so... :)

I say so, unequivocally.

OK... and I note that you appended a recipe for squid with satay
sauce... I'd not been thinking about satay sauce as being a form of
peanuts, but should have...

... Man cannot live on bread alone; that's why there's orange marmelade.

I read that as "man cannot live on broad beans."

How true... (G)

Man cannot live on breaded abalone (next try).

That might be a little more likely to work, though.... ;)

I've had abalone, and it doesn't taste enough
different from squid or clam strips to make it
worthwhile at the elevated price it commands.

I've had it at Canton House in a dimsum dumpling....

Johnny, use the words analyze and anatomy in a sentence.
Johnny (sings): My analyze over the ocean, my
analyze over the sea, my analyze over the ocean,
so bring back my anatomy.

Ana being, after all, Bonnie's older sister... ;)

Old joke. Don't make waves.

Just remarking about Lydia's two oldest girls... ;)

Remind me, in September, to tell you the potato chip story.

Not sure I'll remember, but Nancy probably will.

Don't count on it... but I might.... ;)

No tragedy if you don't, but now it's a sure
thing you'll obsess about remembering it and
so you will, along with all the other picnic
stuff.

I think I did save it to the Picnic file, so maybe.... ;)

neurological going on, but she's putting opening that
can of worms off until it's unavoidable (a course many
others including myself would also follow).

Depending on how much I was affected by something of the sort, I might
or might not...

If knowledge and understanding aren't going to make a
difference to your situation, why know or understand,
unless you find it fun to do so.

There's a bit of it being, well maybe not fun exactly, but intriging to
me... almost a need to know....

Well, I got the news that Bonnie gave in and had tests
on her spine, which detected more degenerative arthritis
but no cancer. The lump beside her spine is still
unidentified, but anyway it's not malignant.

Mostly good news.... ;)

In both cases, qualified good news.

Yup...

As Noah Webster is sometimes claimed to have said,
"Things are looking up." So I feel justified in
celebrating with an extended run of my favorite foods.

Justification enough... (G)

It's been a run of beef, chili, fried green
tomatoes, and crab. A bit of airline food, as
we need to help Lilli along with her quest for
nobism, but mostly I haven't been eating that.

An unavoidable adjunct.... ;) You can eat the good stuff when you are
on the ground.... :)

ttyl neb

... Heredity is what sets parents of a teenager wondering about each other

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