-=> 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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