On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 20:34:14 -0500 Shalanna  writes:
>  They come in threes.  

Or we just reset the count

> Watch for another show business person to 
appear in the news, unfortunately . . . within a couple of weeks.  I'd
bet 
on it.  (A crappy thing to notice, but it seems to happen.)

Well, my "three" came today -- though it's meaningless to all but a few.
The old Feed Mill across the river from the house I lived in from age 0
to 18 burned Thursday night.
dammit
Don't know the extent of the damage -- though was told the entire sky was
red -- but that thing was built in the 1800s, filled with feed dust from
over 100 years of steady milling; it couldn't have stood a chance.
Sure, Gregory Peck & David Brinkley rocked FAR larger ponds; but *I'm*
pretty heart sore.
*sigh*

>  >There are times when instant arrival would be nice, but then you 
> wouldn't
>  > get anything out of the journey. --Kathy Wilson
> 
> This is so profound that I think I might swipe it for the current 
> masterpiece-in-progress.    You've read that "The Journey is 
> the 
> Reward" thing that circulated around offices around ten years ago?  
> It's 
> kind of an expansion on that theme.  I've been musing on how to have 
> some 
> minor character mention it to give a chuckle to the readers who are 
> figuring out the plot.

Oh, I have a whole section of the journey being the reward -- keyword:
Journey Ink
And then there's Adventure! for the more excitement minded (they're
typically cross referenced).

>  >..try explaining THAT to your HMO. --Amana Commercial
> 
> Or anything, for that matter.  We're on a PPO, and they keep sending 
> letters demanding to know why my husband had shoulder surgery unless 
> there 
> was a car accident or on the job injury (it was a frozen shoulder, 
> and 
> diabetics just turn up with it for some reason, and they never are 
> sure why); 

Hear ya -- ours spent more investigating and re-investigating my hand
physical therapy than it cost to pay the claim. [What really peeves me is
when they pay the Physical Therapist, no questions, and then question the
MD who recommended me. Then, after paying five PT claims, question
that.... it seemed, well, a waste of our premiums.
I can see preventing fraudulent claims -- but come ON, people....

We have since been transfered to another administration center.

> they want to sue whoever they can to pay for it, you see, but 

Oh, I do see....

> I keep 
> telling them, nope, there wasn't anything except his shoulder just 
> getting 
> less and less movement gradually over about a year and a half.  But 
> their 
> computer sends me new missives regularly, in hopes I'll change my 
> mind and   fill out a form!

Sometimes a phone call is required -- but you need to go up two levels to
someone who can check the box and make it stick.

> Couldn't think of a good name for the yellow dog that wouldn't have 

She's actually a BLACK dog -- only her collar was yellow.

> bad   resonance, but can't resist warning everyone to be careful what
they 
> name   pets.  You don't want to be leaning out the door after dark 
> hollering, "Sweetiepie!" or "Big Boy!"  

I could think of worse things to be yelling.... =g=

> My mother was calling our  indoor/outdoor cat 
> one evening after dark, standing on the back porch, yelling, "Here, 
> Big 
> Boy!" (you know what's coming, don't you?) when a voice from the 
> darkness 
> of the back alley answered, "Here I am, dollface!"  It was a 
> neighbor who'd   had a few martinis, but it gave her quite a turn. 
Fortunately, the 

LOL!!!
you will, of course, USE that

> cat 
> shot past her headed for the back door just then, and they both 
> retreated  to the kitchen to reconsider suitable cat names.

yup

> (My dad named that cat.  He was the biggest of the seven kittens in 
> Angelbaby's litter [yes, I know, but yet another person had already 
> named  her when I got her], 

hear ya

>and he kept climbing out of the box before his   mother 
> was ready for him to explore, so she'd just cuff him back down into 
> the 
> kitten box.  We really should have settled on a different name, but 
> it had   already stuck.  Take care when naming pets and children.)

oh yeah
I've a list probably 200 names long before we settled on Vivienne [AKC:
Cru's Brown Eyed Girl <-- as the official name came later, we were free
to choose an adjective for the official name, the call name having been
in place a month; Cru Newfs likes going with the Rock & Roll theme.
Have a list of those, too. Brown Eyed Girl was Russ' fav -- I was (not
so) secretly rooting for "Quietly Making Noise"]

Later days!

====
I've come to realize that Doug and I don't go on trips by ourselves; our
families and friends are with us, and the decisions we make ripple beyond
the shores within view. -- Jill Fredston
There are times when instant arrival would be nice, but then you wouldn't
 get anything out of the journey. --Kathy Wilson
...try explaining THAT to your HMO. --Amana Commercial

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