-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 24-Jul-2015 13:15 <=-
 DAG> Re: Shinies and not-so shiny  was: shinies and sickies

 NB>> I'm sorta testing a theory... that something might be thinking that
 NB>> some replies are dupes, despite the different dates and all...
 NB>> possibly in response to the opposite problem in A_L, where messages
 NB>> come back as dupes with only the time-date changed... all very
 NB>> weird... ;)  So I'm changing the subject lines for all of them now...
 DAG> I've been wondering about that a little bit myself, lately.  I'm
 DAG> glad you've decided to get the initiative to test it out. :)  Let's
 DAG> see what happens. 

So far, so good... I think...

 NB>> I was always a very fast reader, so I'd get through a book in a day or
 NB>> so, often less... Books got to be a little less of a shiny when my eyes
 NB>> started giving me problems... sigh...  ;)
 DAG> Me too.  I just lost the ability to do it for pleasure in college. 
 DAG> It's slowly coming back, but not as quickly as I'd like.  Maybe I need
 DAG> to sever myself from the electronic teat here a little bit, as well.

Probably wouldn't hurt... ;)  I never stopped reading for pleasure, but
I just can't read for as long or as fast... especially when my eyes get
tired...  

 NB>> True... one starts to see that some things just aren't really as shiny
 NB>> as they appear, when necessities by necessity trump them... 
  Like
 NB>> my son discovering that he could spend the same amount of money on
 NB>> snacky foods for a day or real food for two weeks... and the money in
 NB>> hand had to last him until the next small paycheck, in two weeks... ;)
 NB>> He called me from college to report that fact, and his very wise
 NB>> decision to go with the real food... ;)  That was a couple of decades
 NB>> ago now, but the lesson seems to have stuck, mostly... ;)
 DAG> A good example.  I'm looking very much forward to [hopefully] seeing
 DAG> ones like that from my own little man here.  He's already showed some
 DAG> remarkable discretion in being able to decide when it's a good idea to
 DAG> splurge on the junk food or save and get something a few notches
 DAG> higher.  I didn't really expect to see that at 8.

He's had a bit more in-your-face experience on learning that than my son
had at that age, I'd guess...  :)  

 NB>> Guess so.  ;)   Hopefully it won't be too bad, and you'll be able to
 NB>> just find areas that she could edit some to make them better...  And if
 NB>> you're really lucky, it'll be good, and you'll be able to tell her so. :)
 DAG> I'm hoping so.  I finally got through the first 10 pages early last
 DAG> night. I'm going to try to make a goal of getting through at least 20
 DAG> pages a night until I'm done.  So far the writing is pretty friggin'
 DAG> good.  Reminds me a little bit of Peter Straub.

Sounds promising... :)
 
 NB>> Hopefully it will all work out properly in the end... maybe even
 NB>> already...  Sounds like someone isn't particularly meticulous with
 NB>> keeping accounts....
 DAG> Yeah...  Well the paperwork is coming to us separately now, so I'm
 DAG> not going to be losing money like that again.

That sounds better.  :)
 
 NB>> Not just buddhist... :)   Material things aren't permanent just by their
 NB>> nature...
 DAG> Well Buddhism is just a philosophy for desribing the world and how
 DAG> to be the best person you can be throughout that.  It's not a religion.
 DAG> One might say, though, that all is Buddhism, just as all is Physics,
 DAG> and start a great religious war that way.  ;)

One can start a religous war over just about anything... ;)  And there
are a lot of different thought systems to (try to) explain the
universe... ;)

ttyl         neb

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