Re: Shinies and not-so shiny  was: shinies and sickies   
     By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Thu Jul 23 2015 14:24:06   
      
    NB> I'm sorta testing a theory... that something might be thinking that some   
    NB> replies are dupes, despite the different dates and all... possibly in   
    NB> response to the opposite problem in A_L, where messages come back as   
    NB> dupes with only the time-date changed...  all very weird...  ;)  So I'm   
    NB> changing the subject lines for all of them now...   
      
     I've been wondering about that a little bit myself, lately.  I'm glad you've   
   decided to get the initiative to test it out. :)  Let's see what happens.   
      
    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...  ;)   
      
     Me too.  I just lost the ability to do it for pleasure in college.  It's   
   slowly coming back, but not as quickly as I'd like.  Maybe I need to sever   
   myself from the electronic teat here a little bit, as well.   
      
    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... ;)   
      
     A good example.  I'm looking very much forward to [hopefully] seeing ones   
   like that from my own little man here.  He's already showed some remarkable   
   discretion in being able to decide when it's a good idea to splurge on the junk   
   food or save and get something a few notches higher.  I didn't really expect to   
   see that at 8.   
      
    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.  :)   
      
     I'm hoping so.  I finally got through the first 10 pages early last night.    
   I'm going to try to make a goal of getting through at least 20 pages a night   
   until I'm done.  So far the writing is pretty friggin' good.  Reminds me a   
   little bit of Peter Straub.   
      
    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....   
      
     Yeah...  Well the paperwork is coming to us separately now, so I'm not going   
   to be losing money like that again.   
      
    NB> Not just buddhist... :)   Material things aren't permanent just by their   
    NB> nature...    
      
     Well Buddhism is just a philosophy for desribing the world and how to be the   
   best person you can be throughout that.  It's not a religion.  One might say,   
   though, that all is Buddhism, just as all is Physics, and start a great   
   religious war that way.  ;)   
      
    NB> I see.  ;)   Well, I've things now I have to go do, so I'll have to   
    NB> break for now, and get back to messaging later...  :)   
      
     Ditto that.  More soon!   
      
     -D   
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