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Skriven 2016-01-06 11:22:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: aged 749
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-01-16  14:04 <=-

 >  ML> Someday I'll evolve a new set of procedures that will
 >  ML> let me do so again - right now I still haven't found a
 >  ML> satisfactory text search that properly negotiates
 >  ML> subdirectories.
 > Someday.... 
 ML> Still no love. The thing is all my old files have
 ML> no extension, which means that all the 64-bit programs
 ML> ignore them.

I'm sure all your files are much more modern than mine (along with the
OS), but I've often renamed a file to the 8+3 format, eg thsoldfl.txt,
so that my programs can find them, etc...  So, can't you rename files?
 
 >  ML> wanted to maintain at least the simulacrum of anonymity,
 >  ML> but that would have gone away with the first moderation
 >  ML> anyhow. If there should be a disruptive series of posts
 >  ML> from someone new, I might use it, but I don't really see
 >  ML> that happening.
 > Yeah, that was a nice idea, while it lasted...  ;)
 ML> Dale convinced me to keep the account, to keep 
 ML> options open for circumstances beyond our imagination
 ML> that might come upon us someday.

Wise move... one never knows when a bridge might become handy again.. ;)

 >  ML> A place I really hate gets gone to once. I figure if the
 >  ML> food and service are such that I hate the place, there's
 >  ML> an increased chance that something awful will happen at
 >  ML> the cashier, as well.
 > There is that.  :)
 ML> Last night's dinner bill was paid sight unseen, but I
 ML> woke up in the middle of the night with the unmistakeable
 ML> feeling that the restaurant had long-changed us. It turns
 ML> out (after a bunch of cogitation) that they had charged 
 ML> Annie for one crabcake rather than two. Doesn't matter,
 ML> the restaurant closed after dinner for two weeks' vac,
 ML> so probably they would have thrown away at least one
 ML> crab cake anyway.

They probably figured they might as well comp it... you were doing them
a favor by eating things off before they left on holiday... ;)
 
 >  ML> Remembere that dinner that Annie had auctioned off as a
 >  ML> benefit for the SPCA? We met with the winning bidder, and
 >  ML> we agreed on a completely different menu - shrimp either
 >  ML> coconutted or satay-style, Annie's vegetable soup, chicken
 >  ML> with cashew nuts, Annie's lamb tagine, beef rendang, and
 >  ML> Annie's trifle: so that's three things for each person, a
 >  ML> somewhat equitable distribution of labor. 
 > Ah... that sounds better... :)  
 ML> I think it'll end up being a pretty decent meal after all.

From the report, it sounds like it indeed was... :)
 
 >  ML> she had never heard of such a thing. By my calcs, we are
 >  ML> putting down $100-125 in food PLUS wine for the occasion.
 > She gets to claim it all as a charitable deduction though, no...?
 ML> Turns out the winning bid was $250.

Not too shabby... and about in line for the expected value...

 >  ML> stressed about that, but there are 5 quarts of beef-and-chicken
 >  ML> broth in the fridge that she refuses to use for the purpose.
 > How silly... ;)  The beef-and-chicken broth in the fridge is probably
 > both richer and better suited to the vegetable soup
 ML> Annie has another bee in her bonnet and says the stuff
 ML> stinks - it smells rather like the consomme, actually.
 ML> I'll get back at her - I won't help her make her
 ML> vegetable soup, so there.

:)

 ML> She wanted me to make this for the meal, but I convinced
 ML> her that plain white rice would go better -
 ML> Javaher Polow
 ML> categories: Iranian, Persian, starch, jeweled, rice

Looks quite fancy.... and more appropriate for some other fancy meal...
as an entree in its own right...  ;) 

ttyl       neb

... "At last I'm organized." he sighed and died

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