Hi Michael,

 ML> >  ML> Plenty of time. Who knows, though, what the state
 ML> >  ML> of travel will be this decade.
 ML> > It'll be quite different from 2019 and the early days of 2020. Sort
 ML> of > like the transitions made after 9/11--inconvenient but accepted
 ML> as part

 ML> Actually, after the initial kerfuffle, very little ended up
 ML> changing - the 3.5 oz rule and later the shoes off rule

Also the weight limit on baggage and for most airlines, one checked bag
per person, one carry on and one personal item.


 ML> (thank you, Richard Reid), plus the more important shift
 ML> from the Argen-not-so-bright and Hunt-less rent-a-cops
 ML> responsible for letting the 9/11 terrorists aboard to the
 ML> slightly better trained government ones.

I don't remember if it's age 70 or 75 but at one of them you get to keep
your shoes on.


 ML> > of the need for increased security/screening but now we all follow
 ML> the > rules as a matter of course. We've not flown in 3 years; we tend
 ML> to take

 ML> For me it's been 3 weeks, and that's way too long.

 ML> > the camper more places now. The biggest advantage of flying is that
 ML> you > usually get to your destination in hours, instead of days. Then
 ML> too, we > don't have a lot of deadlines to meet while on the road.

 ML> I read: dandelions.

We see plenty of those too, in season. Haven't tried digging up the
roots for salad tho.


 ML> > The rank and file symphony player earned about twice as much as
 ML> Steve > did at his highest point in the Army. The player just scraping
 ML> by earned > about as much as he did before enlisting.

 ML> The rank-and-file symphony player was at the top
 ML> of his (mostly - very few women in those days)
 ML> profession, with a decade or more (mostly -
 ML> Nicholas's friend Ronny Feldman was hired when he
 ML> was still in college; my friend Peg Brundage was
 ML> reputed to be a better cellist but had the almost
 ML> insurmountable handicap of being a woman and the
 ML> almost insurmountable handicap of being an
 ML> introvert, so he was hired over her) of toil
 ML> before achieving what Silverstein said was the
 ML> best 30-hour-a-week job you could imagine.

And being left handed is another disadvantage. Good thing I don't play a
stringed instrument.

 ML> > OTOH, we use the single burner unit quite a bit. For food that might
 ML> > stink up the house, we'll put it on a side burner to one of our
 ML> grills. > Did that last fall with a good sized stalk of collards. (G)

 ML> Collards do smell, as do all members of the species
 ML> with the possible exception of kohlrabi.

Steve calls the latter a UFO veggie. We see them from time to time at
the farmer's market.


 ML> > We didn't patronise the bakery that often--sometimes for a loaf of
 ML> > French or Italian bread to go with spaghetti but never for baked
 ML> sweets. > Mom did all of that kind of baking at home.

 ML> I never figured out that combination and wonder why
 ML> every Italian isn't massively diabetic.

Because they don't eat a big plate of pasta as a meal. It's a small
plate, accompanied by lots of fresh veggies and olive oil. Americans
make a meal out of a big plate (or bowl) of pasta--cheap way to feed a
large number of people mentality.

 ML> > We'd been thru one of slightly more intense (5.3) and closer when we
 ML> > were in Pacific Grove, CA. Also went thru the one centered in VA in
 ML> > 2011--it was noticeable but not that severe here.

 ML> They actually are quite common and generally nothing
 ML> to get bent out of shape about.

I don't, and nothing around the house has either.


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