Hi Michael,

 ML> >  ML> I distrust those who pull out a plum and say
 ML> >  ML> "what a good boy am I."
 ML> > There are times you get the urge to strangle someone?

 ML> At least bop them over the head with a zucchini.

I'd use a yellow squash; the "neck" makes a better "handle". (G)

 ML> >  ML> Being smart or rich or well endowed or beautiful is
 ML> >  ML> one thing, but reminding people of it all the time
 ML> >  ML> is a red flag as well as a constant irritation.
 ML> > We brought down my sister good one time--she was bragging about
 ML> living > in a gated community. At the time we were living on post--I
 ML> just said > that we do too, and ours is also guarded--with armed
 ML> guards. It took a > moment to sink into her brain and then she started
 ML> sputtering........

 ML> Sounds like a certain amount of silliness
 ML> going on in her head.

She has always thought herself above everybody else.

 ML> >  ML> > How long a wait? Seems like it should be addressed before it
 ML> gets >  ML> much > worse--or is he of the "let's wait until it stops
 ML> getting worse >  ML> before > we do anything" opinion? You could be
 ML> waiting half of forever >  ML> then.
 ML> >  ML> Why? It was basically an experiment with equipment
 ML> >  ML> that was not designed with my condition in mind
 ML> > It has to be tried on someone.

 ML> It's not an experiment that yields data
 ML> that would be commonly used. There is a
 ML> body of research that deals with people
 ML> with up to -12, but nothing published
 ML> beyond that that I can find, because the
 ML> incidence is so low. So, in fact, it was
 ML> a one-off for me, and it didn't have to
 ML> be tried on anyone for who knows how long

Interesting--and you got a doctor willing to take on a unique case. He
will probably not see another one as long as he is in practice.


 ML> (the doctor had never seen a case as
 ML> severe as mine during his practice) if I
 ML> hadn't come along.

I had something similar with a tooth back when we were in AZ but the
dentist had seen the situation maybe 5 times before in his practice.


 ML> >  ML> The common complications didn't happen - infection,
 ML> >  ML> lens folded up or misaligned, that kind of thing,
 ML> > I didn't have any of those either.

 ML> Well, common doesn't mean, you know,
 ML> common.

True, in this case, more "expected anomolies" I guess.


 ML> >  ML> extra nonscheduled visit wouldn't do any good and,
 ML> >  ML> as they say, would just annoy the pig.
 ML> > Ergo, "just live with it". Bummer but some vision is better than
 ML> none.

 ML> People sometimes expect the impossible
 ML> of doctors, and then the doctors
 ML> promise, and that's a mistake. They

We've had enough not quite expected results to know better than to
expect perfection.

 ML> don't seem to figure that out until
 ML> the lawyers get get involved. In my
 ML> case, they said, and I already knew,
 ML> that they'd never dealt with that
 ML> extreme a distortion, and they thought
 ML> they could mostly correct it, but the
 ML> best to be expected was the limit of
 ML> legal blindness, and they got pretty
 ML> close to that.

Which, for you, is better than the way you were.

 ML> >  ML> >  ML> > No, just ration them.
 ML> >  ML> >  ML> Again, how could one do that?
 ML> >  ML> > Rather much of an impossiblity so we just have to eat them.
 ML> (G) >  ML> Or refrain from doing so.
 ML> > As you wish..........................

 ML> Potatoes, like lupines, should be
 ML> survival food; the poisoning danger
 ML> is way too high (in my opinion, the
 ML> pleasure factor is also way too low).

I'm eating them more than I did when I first got married, but still not
that much of a fan of mashed potatoes.

 ML> >  ML> > We've seen it happen a few times.
 ML> >  ML> Intermittent reinforcement, then.
 ML> > Not reallyy good for anything.

 ML> The psychology mavens say it gets the best
 ML> results, not even "factoring in the expense,"
 ML> but absolutely speaking.

 ML> >  ML> You wouldn't find any such thing in Japan,
 ML> >  ML> except maybe in a store for Americans. Not
 ML> >  ML> that all inauthentic abominations taste bad,
 ML> >  ML> as I noted to Weller.
 ML> > Or make my own, as I do with regular bread crumbs.

 ML> Or just make sort of ordinary crumbs, only
 ML> grate them coarse and toast them harder.

Easy enough to do. I cube the bread, dry the cubes in the oven and then
run the dry ones thru the blender.


 ML> >  ML> Get rid of most of the tomatoes at least.
 ML> >  ML> If the chili powder was respectable, not
 ML> >  ML> much else need be done to it. Lots of ground
 ML> >  ML> hot pepper and garlic maybe.
 ML> > Or, just ditch that chili and start over from scratch.

 ML> Or ditch recipes in general and start from
 ML> scratch in the first place!

Some people need a starter recipe. Others are OK winging it.

 ML> >  ML> leftovers going to the kitchen staff, the
 ML> >  ML> servants, the domestic animals, and the
 ML> >  ML> poor, probably in that order.
 ML> > Sounds logical, tho sometimes the poor might have ranked above the
 ML> > animals.

 ML> Perhaps higher than draft or farm or food
 ML> animals, but I have the feeling that
 ML> household pets and guard animals were
 ML> probably treated better than the poor,
 ML> being less expendable.

Usually no household pets in poorer families; most of them were doing
well to have any sort of animal.

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Ruth
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