George Pope wrote to James Bradley, "howdoodily doodily do?"

 GP> On (10 Mar 05) James Bradley wrote to George Pope...
 JB>  GP> I'm in Richmond, BC, Canada, living with my cat.
 JB> A suburb of greater metro Vancouver? As you'll see in the tear, Cal.

 GP> Yes, just south of Vancouver, on a delta, home of Vancouver
 GP> International Airport.

Visited a cousin there once IIR. Nice place, but some rowdy wildlife.
 GP> What's "Cal. Alta."?

 GP> California Alberta?

Ya, right!  I worked 'under' a manager once that gleefully proclaimed, I'm
going to L.A. Then we found out he was off to Lethbridge AB.
 JB> Suspected Fibroid Neuroma on the sciatic from a boisterous liposarcoma
 JB> removal JB> '91.

 GP> Sounds scary!  Like a surgeon got a little more enthusiastic
 GP> than he was supposed to?

That's the "Perhaps mildly paranoid" diagnosis rearing its ugly
head.  

I was under-diagnosed for half a dozen years, then 'slabbed' twice when they
found the real reason for the bump. Today, it would have been left alone.
(sic.)
 JB> If you can tell the difference between a N and S Currie, you're MILES
 JB> ahead

 GP> No, I can't -- just know mine's a North Indian Curry, because
 GP> my homemaker is from the north and taught me her family recipe!
 GP> *G*

Ah...  I can scratch together a curie, and occasionally luck out and it'll
be edible. Truth is, I'll eat it anyway, and deal with the consequences the
next day. O-8=
 JB> they'd return. Long story!) and was close to calling Meal on Wheels.

 GP> Juts close to?  What made you decide NOT to call Meals on
 GP> Wheels? I wouldn'tmind an occasional meal cooked for me, but
 GP> the $$ is daunting!

I qualify for subsidy, so each 'meal' would cost $5. As I was eating pasta and
canned beans at the time, I was feeding myself twice for a little over 50
cents. The mortgage needed to be paid at the time, so I kept on with the status
quo. Now that the mortgage is paid, I am considering the variety again. One
more lean year, and I'll be able to spend spend spend! (-;
 GP> So I go out to restaurants once or twice c. each months' end
 GP> payday.

Chairs are a real, um... Sore spot for me. /-:
 JB> pressure cooker or cast iron frypan..." But, I don't own a pressure
 JB> cooker.

 GP> Me neither; bought a slow-cooker(crock pot) but it's defective,
 GP> it seems, which is too bad, I was looking forward to some
 GP> simple meals that didn't require my constant on-going attention
 GP> in the kitchen! (ADHD is a problem here!)

I don't know if I suffer the same fate, but fussing in a kitchen has never been
one of my vices. If I can throw it in a pot and eat later without touching it,
I call that a successful day. If someone wants to label that a disorder, I'm OK
with that.
 JB>  GP> "Neil Squire Foundation")
 JB>  GP> Check them out at http://www.neilsquire.ca
 JB> No I-net. Could you summarize?

 GP> Sure, it's a society that provides training/job search
 GP> services/support for disabled adults.

Is that Nation-wide? I'd never heard of them here.

 GP> Computer Comfort -- where I volunteer, teaching basic computer
 GP> (internet, M$ Office) skills.

...And you used to run a pretty popular BBS, didn't you?

 GP> EPPD (Job Focus) -- one-on-one with an "employment specialist"
 GP> to identify and achieve education/employment goals. -- I'm
 GP> currently in this one, just took a very extensive
 GP> vocational-psych testing  (2 days) which I hope will support my
 GP> plans(or provide me clear evidence how & why I might need to
 GP> alter them somewhat.)

It sounds like you are an adaptive, and flexible sort to me, so I suspect
you'll do better than you proclaim. Chances are you'll do just fine without
much malleability. You should have results by now, no?

 GP> Hope this helps.

Cheers! I think the same job/retraining service is offered through our
University, but the one-stop feature sounds enticing.
 JB> Do tell! My disability is pain related, and as such, I tend to flare
 >   [...]
 JB> grunts and occasional sporadic shouts... Ya, I guess I could.

 GP> There ya go!  Thimk positive! *G*

LOL! Even family and friends I'll catch in alarm when a shot lets loose. I keep
telling them to ignore it, but they don't. I have to understand, but another
fellow who takes narcs for his back-pain should be familiar with it.
 GP> Pain is a bad one -- not much help available for it, I guess
 GP> the assumption is that one is shirking just to try for
 GP> heavy-duty pharmaceutical narcotics! :(

To quote The Who, "Say hello to the new boss. Same as the old boss. We won't
get fooled again." The physician, a Prof no less, told me, "It's a
non-addictive synthetic form." just to get me to take it, and out of his hair
about it. Later I found out the Hydromorphone was five times more potent than
Morphine, and he had skipped town!

I never thought deluding myself that the pain wasn't there was a good course of
treatment, but who am I but another fool, and he teaches medicine. Trying to
wake up my own endorphin system was an *interesting* if not taxing time.
 JB> amount to dig out from that. /-:

 GP> This is a clear hint as to the "long story" about your missing
 GP> floor?

<-; I guess I could classify myself as co-dependant on auctions. Need I say
more? 
 JB> Do you *really* want to know? 
 GP> Go for it!

Careful what you wish for! 


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