Subj : newspaper  was: moving or
To   : Daryl Stout
From : Barry Martin
Date : Fri Jun 12 2020 09:56:00


Hi Daryl!

 BM> Actually the BBS is in your room as you own the house!  I pretty much
 BM> ave two areas where my hobbies can be scattered: up here in the
 BM> Computer Room and in the basement there's an area the size of a room
 BM> for my Electronics Workbench.  Rest of the house is "off limits" except
 BM> for when installing or a should-be-quick repair.
 DS>   I have to install a second UPS, and swap them...but that has to
 DS> wait until at least June 17, after I see the hernia surgeon...the
 DS> units are on the respective tables/night stands, but they are
 DS> rather heavy.

Yes they are!  And I'd be wearing the girdle thing while moving your 
UPSs around just to be on the safe side and not pop a still-healing
incision.


 BM> Yes, sounds very smart to dump her.
 DS>   If they want you to:
 DS> 1) Always take them to the most expensive restaurant, and pay the
 DS> bill. 2) Forsake all hobbies, and spend every waking moment with
 DS> them. 3) Fight all their battles for them.
 DS> 4) Overlook them not showing their kids "tough love".
 DS>   You need to drop them like a hot potato.
 BM> Definitely.  Any of those is a danger.  ...Nothing wrong with a little
 BM> back-and-forth on any: special occasion go to a nice restaurant (and
 BM> no, I didn't type expensive much less most).  Nice to spend time
 BM> together but everyone needs their own space.  Battles: this one gets a
 BM> hare tricky as some people are much better at standing up for
 BM> themselves/rights/etc.  Tough love -- varying degrees but overall
 BM> required.
 DS>   Janice didn't care if we ate at McDonald's or The Olive Garden
 DS> -- FOOD IS FOOD!! Besides, it goes in the same way, and the waste
 DS> comes out at its place. Here we go with another crappy thread. <G>
 
IMO it's the company (other person), enhanced by the atmosphere (the 
food, surroundings).  Sure, it's nice to have a cut-with-a-fork tender 
steak, but I'd rather eat an over-done hamburger with a friend than that
steak with someone I didn't really care far and just was in it for the 
money aspect.


 BM> Creamed corn is good, refried beans are good....  Musched-up peas -
 BM> might taste OK but looks like Monkey Vomit.
 DS>   Well, there goes my appetite. That's the same response in a
 DS> cartoon from "The Far Side" comic strip. Two bears are looking
 DS> over the fence at the Happy Valley Nudist Colony...and one says
 DS> to the other "Well, there goes my appetite". <G>

Or the elephants asking "how do you breathe through that thing?".

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