Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-28-18 17:03 <=-

A lot of open-heart surgery is (or at least used
to be) done with the patient on a machine and the
heart isolated. And some mechanic work has to be
performed with the engine running as well.

Quite true... on both counts... Richard was on machines for his bypass
last year...

Up here at Wipi, one major topic of conversation
has been successful and unsucessful cardiac
interventions. Everyone I've talked to has had
one or has recently had one in the family. A
lot of "what model is your pacemaker" talk.

I guess it goes with the territory, aging-wise.... 10 years ago, I'd had
no experience... since then, Gwen got a pacemaker, and Richard's had
multiple interventions (no pacemaker, though)... Maybe my other Gwen
had had her stents put in a little before that 10 years, though... I was
more involved with the after effects of that one, meds and followup
testings, than the original intervention....

Occasionally we had what they called cambric tea... but I think it
didn't have any tea in it, just milk in hot water.... If there was any tea, it was mighty weak...

As I recall, the term has been used to jocularly
describe excessively weak tea, but normally the
beverage was a way to make kids feel grownup and
had just a dash of tea to color if any.

Yup... the reason I doubt ours had any tea in it is that I don't recall
my parents drinking tea... only coffee.. but maybe I just don't remember
the tea... ;)

Maybe what you had was cambric coffee!

I doubt it. :)

Strangely, perhaps, my preference was for chocolate
milk over milk chocolate. In the latter, the milk
taste was too prominent, especially with Hershey's,
which always reminded me of the taste of vomit.

Interesting, the associations one makes... ;) I always liked all sorts
of chocolate... but my sister Lesesne always thought any chocolate was nasty... she'd always give hers away... :)

Could she at least sometimes negotiate a trade?

She did in fact often negotiate trades, particularly at Christmas when
we were opening stockings.... I don't remember now what, if anything, I
traded with her for the chocolate, though... ;)

He turned out to be a very thoughtful roommate,
leaving the lights on (though this was not strictly
necessary) and being perfectly quiet, except during
the involuntary act of snoring; and there was a plan B
anyhow - I always had earplugs in my violin case from
having to play decades' worth of the 1812 overture.

If they'd work for the 1812, they'd muffle the snoring well enough... :)

They'd do okay, but the professional function of earplugs
generally is to take out the harmful high frequencies.

Ah, true...

Unless they stay over Friday night, it's unlikely that they'd stay over... I got an email from Burt, laying out what they thought they'd
be doing with us... they plan on going out with us on Friday night, and then spending the picnic day with us... they have obligations on Sunday morning, but might come by to visit later in the day....

I just hope they're not biting off more than they can
chew, so to speak.

When I've talked to them lately, they seem to be in fairly good health
with a reasonable amount of energy, so I think they'll be ok... :)

Good; I hope we can see for ourselves.

Indeed.

I presume that's Throgmorton? It's interesting that
Throgmorton (originally Throckmorton) is such a
popular critter name - dating from long before any
movie or literate reference that I can find. I knew
a girl who had a rabbit by that name back in 1970.

Yup, Throgmorton. It's a catchy sort of name.... I think it was my
nephew Alex that named him... cat's about 16... so Alex would have been about 16 when he named the cat.... dunno where he'd come across the
name... ;)

As popular culture is way outside my field of
expertise, I must defer to anyone who has a
plausible hypothesis.

If we think of it, we can ask at the house... Lydia, or Bonnie (next
older sibling to Alex), might remember details.... ;)

I'm not making a fruit salad. But breakfast casserole,
maybe - it will have cheese, bread, pork sausage, milk,
and onions, with something exceptionally classy like
crushed potato chips on top.

We can bring more than one dish.... and you don't have to make the fruit salad... :)

Today at the cap mess we had, among other things,
"Asian noodle" soup that had galanga, rice sticks,
rice vermicelli, and ground pork. About as authentic
an Asian soup as my Penn Dutch breakfast casserole
or tamale pie is likely to be.

But was it tasty....?

ttyl neb

... LIFE: Well, one thing led to another, and then we died.

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