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Skriven 2012-12-31 13:44:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: eotw? 771
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-27-12  19:32 <=-

 NB>> Interesting predictions have abounded for just about all of time.. :) 
 NB>> According to the Book I follow, no one can accurately predict the end,

 ML> I marvel that many of the would-be prophets profess to adhere
 ML> to such a Book but are arrogant enough to contradict what
 ML> it says.
 
Selective reading...  ignore the parts that don't fit with your theory.

 NB>> it will come when least expected... so one is to be ready at all
 NB>> times. 

 ML> So the doomsayers are doing us a favor, as somebody is
 ML> expecting it all the time.

I dunno...  seems like all the doomsayers are desensitizing people...
the old crying wolf gambit...  I know I tend to ignore them... [g]
 
 NB>> One should always live in the present, and enjoy each day as a gift. 
 NB>> And it's probably best not to postpone dreams too far out, just in
 NB>> case... ;)  

 ML> Indeed. Annie has complained for years that she couldn't travel
 ML> with Billy in the 4 1/2 years (! he was estimated to have between
 ML> 2 weeks and a year when diagnosed) of his last illness; they
 ML> decided to cash in all his miles for stuff he could enjoy, so
 ML> half a million miles went on electronics and media equipment, and
 ML> now that he's gone and she can go away for more than a day, she
 ML> can't afford to. I wasn't in the mood to tell her that they had
 ML> frittered away all those miles on big-screen TVs and stuff that
 ML> were only a little better than what they already had (I did give
 ML> them this lecture before they did it in the first place, so I
 ML> fulfilled my requirement). 

(I do think I remember your mentioning something of the sort before.)

 ML> So instead I razzed her about buying
 ML> canned beef gravy ($1+) instead of letting me make gravy from
 ML> scratch (10c or less and tasting better). Told her that was a
 ML> buck less in her travel fund.

Did she retort that she got it on sale for 2/$1?  (Wegmans usual holiday
sale on Campbell's canned gravies...)  ;)

 ML> I'm here past schedule, because of the snow, and we're housebound,
 ML> sort of (they did plow most of the foot of snow we've had), and
 ML> she asked me what our first quarrel would be about. I said, home
 ML> economics, and she said, what do you mean, and I replied, I'm for,
 ML> you're against. 

I can see that...  ;)

 ML> She does seem to enjoy the feeling of generosity,
 ML> plenty, and being able to buy whatever she likes; but then she
 ML> spent much of the afternoon pricing out my trip. 

She worries about the pounds, not the pennies... she'd be further along
if she swapped that...  ;)

 ML> Looks like list price would be in the $25-30K range, but my cash
 ML> outlay will be in the range of 10% of that (plus a few years of
 ML> saved up miles, bringing my total down to a human level).

Quite reasonable for a trip of a lifetime... even at list...  Even more
so, with your saved miles and all...  :)

 ML> I try not to provoke persons with machine guns. I think the
 ML> most dangerous parts of the trip will be, in this order,
 ML> crossing the street in Singapore, Kathmandu, Bangkok, and
 ML> Jogjakarta; the Beechcraft that we will ride to Everest on on
 ML> January 14 (one of its fleetmates with occupants died a fiery
 ML> death a couple years ago); and the Kathmandu drinking water.

Perilous...  one hopes for your safety through them all...  :)
 
 NB>> Tis a wonderment... I suppose it is part of what makes it Bourbon vs
 NB>> something else...?  ;)  Where does Makers Mark fit in the scheme..?

 ML> Though they are under the same umbrella and fall differently
 ML> in the hierarchy, there isn't a unitary scheme per se, as
 ML> the recipes and I believe actual distilling locations are
 ML> different. Both are somewhat premium brands (I am used to
 ML> $10-20 brands; premium run $20-50, say, and both of these
 ML> are in the lower part of this range; and then there are
 ML> the fancy ones that mere mortals can't afford.

I had a taste of a Kentucky Bourbon Saturday night at my family's
Christmas celebration... the word was that it was on the Makers Mark
level, I forget what the name of it was, started with B, had
hand-written notations on the label as to which batch etc it was...
fancy bottle, with a horse figure at the top of the cap...  It seemed
a bit harsh to me... I was told that it did have more of a bite than
Makers Mark...

ttyl       neb

... A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

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