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 ML> If I were to be, heaven forfend, cut off from travel, I'd
 ML> still want substantial changes of venue, even if it meant
 ML> being wheeled down the road: it would make me feel less
 ML> restless as well.
 NB> Exactly.

It's a good thing Annie gave me a camera. As long as I can
put my nose up to a laptop screen I can at least relive my
former triumphs. Not that I expect an immediate downturn in
my wanderings, but some constriction is likely to happen
sooner or later. I hope I don't live until a trip to Rock
Creek Park or Cleveland becomes the excitement of the month.

 ML> Good when one's partner has complementary needs to one -
 ML> probably much better than when he has supplementary ones.
 NB> It's worked well for us...  :)

My relations have mostly been supplementary ones, which
means that at one point or another my partner in some sense
becomes a competitor for the same resources, whether it be
time or that last seat in first class.

 ML> the dinner table, and Sy got the idea (perhaps unjustified)
 ML> that my grandfather was soaking him of millions that would
 ML> otherwise have gone to Sy and his brother. 
 NB> Ah... Probably unjustified, from the sounds of it... :)  Maybe Sy's
 NB> father was just a little envious of the globetrotting, and so did a
 NB> grumble to downplay it...  ;)

Likely. Anyhow, there weren't any millions.

 ML> My grandfather had the reputation of being the only honest
 ML> guy in Chiang's government. Perhaps it's true - he certainly
 ML> didn't amass huge sums the way many of his friends did.
 NB> And it sounds like he might not have had time to have spent much of
 NB> it, other than in travel...  ;)

It's hard to say. He was very discreet, unlike me.

 ML> The smallness of my inheritance (he had at least a dozen
 ML> grandkids, anyway) is a partial testament to that.
 NB> A dozen plus into even a reasonably good-sized inheritance would make
 NB> for somewhat small segments, after all...  I got $600 from my gram,
 NB> her estate was split between 16 grandchildren and 3 daughters (who got
 NB> double shares of it)... probably would tot up to something that looked
 NB> like a lot more before it got divvied up...  ;) 
 
Yep - 4 (perhaps all 5 at the time, I'm not sure about the
chronology, now that I think about it, I think 5) surviving
kids plus all us grandchildren, who similarly to your
situation got fractional shares - for me just enough to pay
for travel for a year, maybe two at the most.

 NB> I tend to pick and choose my charity giving carefully... too many even
 NB> of the reasonably meritorious to be able to give to everyone...
 
I thought the United Way (aka United Fund, fka United Givers'
Fund) was a great idea, divvying up general charitable donations
in an evenhanded way, and I used to give periodically, until I
discovered that appalling amounts of the apportionment was going
both above and below board into the pockets of the administrators.
Now the only such giving I do is to United Airlines, where an
appalling amount of the apportionment goes into the pockets of the
administrators, but at least I get to see the world. I will still
occasionally sneak a few bucks into the coffers of Unicef or the
Salvation Army but try to do so in a way that I can't get blamed
for doing so and penalized by having thousands of begging letters
clogging my inbox.

Bucatini Bolognese
cat: Italian, Ohio, pasta, main
servings: 4 to 6

1/4 lb pancetta, diced small
1/2 lb ground chuck or brisket
1/2 lb ground veal
1/2 lb ground pork
1 onion, diced small
2 carrots, diced small
2 ribs celery, diced small
2 garlic cloves, minced
6 sage leaves, chopped fine
1/2 c tomato paste
1 qt chicken stock
1 c heavy cream
1/2 lb butter, diced
s, p
1 lb bucatini (or other pasta)
olive oil
chopped basil

Heat a large heavy pot over high heat.

Add pancetta, lower heat to medium, and cook
3-5 min. Add the ground meats and brown. Remove
meats from pot and drain fat.

In the same pot, sweat vegetables until
translucent. Add tomato paste, stock, and
reserved meat. Cook to a sauce consistency.
Reduce heat to low and cook 2-3 hr.

Just before serving, stir in cream and butter
and cook 5 min. Correct seasoning.

Serve over pasta that has been cooked according
to package instructions and tossed with olive
oil. Garnish with basil.

Paul Minnillo, Baricelli Inn, Cleveland, OH
in Hemispheres magazine 9/2014

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