Hi Michael,

 ML> >  ML> and appreciation of Museumsinsel is scanty. I'm
 ML> >  ML> much more a Kulturforum kind of guy.
 ML> > I chaperoned a field trip for one of our girl's classes; that's how
 ML> I > got to the museum.

 ML> I might want to go give the Insel another shot, but
 ML> one gets looted antiquities all through the first world.

I woouldn't mind going back to the city (visit friends) and the country
as a whole (visit relatives). Steve wants to go to Italy some day to see
the area his mom's family came from (toe of the boot region); maybe some
day we'll get over there.


 ML> > I wouldn't be particular about the age of the person, rather what
 ML> their > viewpoint is, is more important. If I needed a contrast to
 ML> mine, there > are enough people in our generation who would easily
 ML> provide it.

 ML> Maybe not credible ones, though.

That would have to be vetted.

 ML> >  ML> he was a worse driver than artist.
 ML> >  ML> > It happens.
 ML> >  ML> He ended up kind of splattered, like his work,
 ML> >  ML> leaving the world wondering was he a genius or
 ML> >  ML> a fraud or, like John Cage, a bit of both.
 ML> > ............And we'll never know.

 ML> I'm pretty sure he was a genius. Also a kook:
 ML> that's not that rare a combination. The phrase
 ML> Often imitated, never duplicated could have been
 ML> written with him in mind (it wasn't really).

Could be written about a lot of people.

 ML> >  ML> Modern dance leaves me fairly cold.
 ML> >  ML> > Same here; most of it looks like a bunch of robots.
 ML> >  ML> Would that it did - I might find something to
 ML> >  ML> understand and/or appreciate in that.
 ML> > I don't know if I would.

 ML> My sister and I had a subscription to the New York
 ML> City ballet up in the 4th ring, where, especially
 ML> with my eyesight, everything was kind of abstracted
 ML> and nonrepresentational anyway, so I have a leg up
 ML> in that department.

More so than I do. The only way Ive seen ballet is on tv.

 ML> > A mix of high and low might be a better option. Sometimes I'll start
 ML> a > crock pot full of something on low, kick it up to high after a
 ML> couple of > hours and then back to low after a couple of hours on
 ML> high. Most often > tho, it's on low all the time. On high it does
 ML> bubble/boil.

 ML> The question then is why use one in the first place,
 ML> when ordinary electric burners can do everything better.

Crock pots use less energy than stoves. Don't know about induction cook
tops (like our one "burner" job) but I've found that it tends to cut off
after a couple of hours of run time.


 ML> >  ML> Annie in Pennsylvania's father did something like
 ML> >  ML> that, the details lost to me now.
 ML> > How is she doing these days or have you lost contact with her?

 ML> I'm in touch with some common friends, and they
 ML> haven't heard much from her either; one sent a
 ML> Christmas card last season and got a card back
 ML> but no note. I suppose that Robbie's transgression
 ML> was so fundamental that everyone who even expressed
 ML> sympathy with her/him immediately went off the list
 ML> - to her it was worse than if (s)he had robbed a bank
 ML> or something. To be fair, he/she seems to have also
 ML> joined some offshoot of Scientology, which may be
 ML> an actual problem.

Sounds like it's a rather convoluted situation.


 ML> >  ML> National City. I was going to nix that, but Lilli
 ML> >  ML> said that I should go with their fix.
 ML> > Sometimes it's the best all around, even tho it's not ideal.

 ML> The doctor seemed okay, but see below.

Will do.

 ML> >  ML> use a batter or a soft biscuit dough. The difference from
 ML> >  ML> a crisp or a crumble is that these last use stroozle-ish
 ML> >  ML> toppings made with crumbs and butter.
 ML> > I'm not particular on what it's called, as long as it tastes good.
 ML> (G)

 ML> I am, mostly because if something is good, it should
 ML> go by a name by which it can be asked for again.

True.

BTW, it looks like we're going to get some wind and rain from the latest
storm. Don't know how much; it's supposed to come up along the I-95
corridor. We're west of that but don't know if we're far enough west to
avoid major damage or not. Will keep you updated.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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