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   Hi Ben,   
      
    BC> Thanks for the reminiscing about your folks' careers.  I like the part   
    BC> where when told your mother was told she couldn't, she did it anyway.   
      
   She had to go to summer school (about 250 miles away) for part of it;   
   as oldest daughter I got the brunt of cooking, cleaning, etc. Did me   
   well when I left home to get married, neither of my sisters could hardly   
   boil water when they left home. I tell Steve that I got most (not quite   
   all) of my cooking mistakes out before we got married.   
      
    BC> I befriended the guy in charge of in-house printing where i worked.   
    BC> He had old-fashioned equipment in the basement.  He used to run the   
    BC> local paper, and told stories about battling with aging equipment   
    BC> there too.  He was quite a character.   
      
   Sounds like fun. I remember going to the News (Catskill Mountain News)   
   office when I was younger, seeing them print the paper. They had to feed   
   the sheets of paper in one at a time, then pull out and change the   
   plates to do the other side. Then it was put thru a cutter and folder   
   machine.   
      
    BC> I forget which branch of the military he was in, but he went to BC>   
    Germany in WWII.  He told me they had set up schools in Austria where   
    BC> they were BC> training people to step into German government   
    positions after taking BC> possession of the USA.  He said they had it   
    all planned out as though BC> it were a done deal.   
      
   Probably Army but working for OSS (precurser to CIA) or a similar   
   agency.  Sounds interesting; I wonder how much of it he could have made   
   public in a book. It would be interesting reading.   
      
    BC> One story he told me was organizing a fund raiser.  He advertised it   
    BC> as a topless car wash, but left out that it would be done by the Boy   
    BC> Scouts. There was a big turnout, including many of the local preachers   
    BC> who showed up to protest.   
      
   Sounds worse than it ended up being. Quite the "hook" to get a turn out   
   tho.   
      
      
   RH> Basically, yes. I pulled out the baby crock pot, put the meat, a cut up   
   RH> onion, a can of tomatoes, and a couple of small cans worth (subdivided   
   RH> large can) of diced chili peppers in it, let it cook on low all day. For   
   RH> supper, I cooked some spiral pasta and we served the "chili" over that.   
   RH> Steve spiced him up a bit with chipotle powder but it was good as is for a   
   RH> cold day.   
      
    BC> That sounds delicious to me.  It has been cold here too.  Yesterday i   
    BC> made a crockpot of split pea soup.  It was edible but not as awesome   
    BC> as usual. I blame the expired carton of broth.  It'll likely be better   
    BC> next time.   
      
   I did a chicken casserole and caesar salad last night. Tonight will   
   probably left overs, clean out the fridge a bit. We're slowly thawing   
   out but the weather folks are saying we could get hit with another storm   
   on Saturday.   
      
   ---   
   Catch you later,   
   Ruth   
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