Hello, Kay;

18 Jul 05 19:04, Kay Shapero wrote to Robert Bull:

 RB>> Hmmm.  Sounds like a combination of chairperson and
 RB>> childminder...

 KS> And lion tamer. :)  Confused the heck out of the chairman of a couple

I thought lion tamers traditionally used chairs as props they wved at the 
lion?  :-))

 KS> himself.  Sigh...)  Finally someone asked him exactly which part of
 KS> the engine the oil belongs to and he seems to have caught on - or at

Nice way of putting it  :-)

 KS> gaming room or the head of the Art Show forgets to eat (or sleep) for
 KS> 24 hours I'm the one most likely to catch it first - and inform Con

Do they really do that?  Sounds very, well, teenage geek.  I can see why 
they'd employ a woman - especially a mother - to keep things in order...

 KS> Oh yes, and Saturday afternoon in the dealer's room, I've been known
 KS> to pass through with a pitcher of icewater and a stack of paper cups,

Living in the UK, the American obsession with iced water rarely seems 
important.  OTOH, we're experiencing a very dry spell and I can start to 
see the point.  The speech therapist I went to even said to put a bowl of 
water in the room (at work) to try to make the air more humid.

 KS> I'll have to go see where my copy wandered off to after I finished it
 KS> and I'll let you know.  However, "Journey to the West" is the usual
 KS> title and shouldn't be that hard to find.

Yes, that does seem to ring a bell.

     Regards,

              Robert.

CBIP:  THE BURNING STONE  by  Kate Elliott  (182/916)
     Vol. 3 of "Crown of Stars," with the second trilogy still to come.  
     She's keeping up a good level of interest and character development; 
     the only drawback is the occasional bits of "otherworldly"
magic don't 
     seem to quite fit (yet) with the very pragmatic rest of it, and a 
     slightly leisurely pace.
Just finished:  UNDERDOGS  by  Rob Ryan
     Hard-boiled thriller in the paved-over streets under Seattle, with 
     Vietnam tunnel rat connections.

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