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Skriven 2014-07-29 21:33:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: sub optimal 701
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 07-23-14  09:34 <=-

 ML>> I was so disturbed by this that I made a vegetable biryani a
 ML>> couple days later back at home. It was ever so much better.
 NB>> But of course yours would have been better...  ;0  That one sounds
 NB>> like it was worse than the typical bad veggie biryani, besides... 
 ML> One could have just as well have taken a box of
 ML> succotash and stirred it into Uncle Ben's. It was
 ML> no better (no worse, either, I admit) than that.

One wonders if that might have been just what they did do.  I stopped
getting the rice at Wegmans' Asian buffet because it tasted like it was
the pre-cooked stuff...

 ML>> I'd have liked to recommend the place, as the help were most
 ML>> willing, but unless the cook goes to reeducation camp along
 ML>> with the one who made the chicken at the library, I won't be
 ML>> back any time soon.
 NB>> Can't blame you a bit...  :)
 ML> Pity. The people were nice, and the food was so boring.
 ML> It was as if a bunch of Indian graduate students were
 ML> trying to figure out how to make ends meet, so they said,
 ML> let's start a restaurant, and they got together, and at
 ML> the last minute they asked each other, can anyone here
 ML> cook? and the answer was no, but they opened a restaurant
 ML> anyway.

Minor details, and all that...  ;)

 NB>>> Our erstwhile aka Fat Cat earned his moniker, at one stage of his
 NB>>> life... by the time of his eventual demise at age 19, he'd left it
 NB>>> mostly behind...  ;)
 ML>> Few beings are lucky enough to die fat and happy.
 NB>> He at least apparently died happy...  :)
 ML> Happy is good. One of the motivators of philosophy, from that
 ML> of the ancient Greeks on, is the minimization of pain and
 ML> maximizing pleasure (or lack of pain). Also striving for a
 ML> happy death. For me, I'm hoping to go in a stupor, drug-
 ML> induced or not.

A quiet death... just slipping away...  yes, that would be nice... going
to sleep and then waking up somewhere else... that would work, too... :)
 
 NB>> Yup... there was pretty much always something doing...  And there's
 NB>> always another year in which to get back to chicken skin or to
 NB>> saffron and its "substitutes"....
 ML> Things to look forward to.

Yup. 

 ML> A couple years ago I was beast sitting at Bob & Deb's house,
 ML> and I thought that that would be a decent place for a
 ML> picnic (and no insane tenant to crash it), but the window of
 ML> availability was too early, and Janis came up with her place,
 ML> so I didn't press things. If the opportunity re-arose, maybe
 ML> I could wangle such a situation?

If the timing worked out well... that could be a possibility... not
having an insane tenant to crash it would be nice, too... (G)

 ML>> Actually, I'm not going to be within a thousand miles
 ML>> of camel country any time this year.
 NB>> Indubitably a good thing on that score...  But you might be in
 NB>> somewhat closer proximity to someone else that had been exposed
 NB>> to the nasty... 
 ML> As it turns out, MERS has been determined to be easily
 ML> transmissible by air, so the issue is maybe more serious
 ML> for me than, say, for you. I have a ton of flying planned
 ML> for the rest of the year.

With any luck, there won't be anyone in your near vicinity, nor recently
in such...  I'm probably safer than I used to be, now that I don't spend
so much time in hospital vicinities with sick friends, too...  Maybe
light exposure will tend to "vaccinate" one from getting a full case,
too...  ;)

ttyl       neb

... Where there's a will, there are five hundred relatives.

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