Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-31-19 18:34 <=-

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...)

I thought your stove was GE or something. Anyhow, if
it had been a quarter century younger, it would have
died long since.

It is a GE.... and I'm sure you are right about that... :)

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...?

When the travel ends, I'm afraid she will do
likewise. Certainly when I myself quit wandering
the world, my brain will go rapidly.

The travel keeps the brain active... and the planning, exercised... :)

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...

I figure it started when I signed up for Juno,
which was a dubious enterprise to begin with.
It might have been before, but Juno was so
incompetent that it became obvious then.

Just as glad I never went for Juno...

My theory is that everyone is being surveilled
to some degree, and I'm guessing I'm at one
level higher of scrutiny, where I get a secondary
but not one that has to be done by an expert.
That's been mostly the pattern in real life (at
the airport, anyway).

Possible, I suppose.... I know you keep getting the secondary at the
airport...

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...?

Well, to the best of my knowledge they didn't.

As Ruth reminded me, George is gone now, too... I was originally
thinking more about them revisiting it in their thoughts rather than in performing it again, though.... :)

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...

You will have seen a nonpeanut satay sauce
recently.

Yup.

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....

It's very expensive when served in recognizable
chunks, probably owing to supposed medicinal
properties (the Chinese are very big on
medicinal properties, but it's all a load of
abalone) and being a bringer of good luck.

That explains a bit... never quite thought that the abalone dumplings
were all that much different from anything else at Canton House...
probably just too chopped up to be recognizeable... :)

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... ;)

I was guessing it had to do with your relatives
but wasn't sure which.

I knew you'd met Bonnie at the picnic... thought you'd also met Ana at
some point, as she comes to church with her kids... :)

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.... ;)

We'll see. There will be many entertainments
in any case. Perhaps on day three we can do a
guessing game - what did we forget to do on
the picnic?

Isn't that a regular part of any Picnic....? (G)

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...

Most news is qualified good news.

There is that... :)

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.... :)

She was Platinum for life, but then the airline
created another tier, so instead of being guaranteed
higher-level priority on the airline, she is now
midlevel unless she does considerable flying. The
difference is mostly in the upgrades: so long as
she keeps Executive Platinum, she gets the one seat
held for last-minute sale if nobody buys full-fare
first. Her quest is either highly practical or
totally nuts, depending on what your criteria are.

Indeed.... I see both sides of that... ;)

So we've gone our separate ways ... briefly, as she
leaves at 10:32 and I leave at 10:30, getting into
LaGuardia the next morning half an hour or so apart,
different routings and different airlines.

Each of your itineraries designed to maximize the rewards needed/gained
by each.... and somewhat defeating the purpose of being traveling
companions, at least for the traveling part of it... ;) Not totally for
the being together at the destinations part... :)

ttyl neb

... No matter what goes wrong, someone knew it would.

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