Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-17-19 11:32 <=-

it died... The salesman who sold us the fridge we now have warned
us that the new one won't last nearly that long....

There is a market for high-quality merchandise
that lasts - but companies seem to find it easier
to just advertise durability but not necessarily
deliver on their claims.

This, though, was a case of the salesman admitting that durability was a thing of the past... told us we'd be lucky if it lasted 15 years, I
think he said... it's been close to that now, I'm guessing.... ;)

My comment wasn't a direct response to your
experience but rather was looking toward the
coasting on reputation of brands such as Maytag
and oh, it's slipped my mind ,,, .

Ah... There are a number such...

If it's just that, it's less than a triumph but also
hess than a disaster. But meanwhile, I'm stuck with
two very close friends with uncertain and discomfiting
medical issues.

Which can be rather unsettling, to be sure...

It'll no doubt take years off my life, but sticking
with them is as right a thing to do as I can.

If you can do the caregiving without becoming overwhelmed by it, it
might not take off much from your life... might even give you a reason
to continue.... these things aren't all cut-and-dried, you know...

With Lilli of course we have a long-standing travel
symbiosis, and we've taken two international trips
together this year (with two more planned). in Bonnie's
case, the tie is music, but we do a bit of wandering
as well. In both cases we're planning with an eye to
possible medical emergencies (for me too).

Wise. :)

By the way, I'm more convinced than ever that something has
been going on at least since I stopped using Lynx. It is of
course possible, perhaps likely, that every user of
telecommunications is being tracked constantly.

Possible... And some programs may make it easier or harder to do so in
each particular instance....

I was talking to another friend who experienced
similar symptons. In Mary Catherine's case it was
clearly the FBI, and for good reason; in the other
guy's it was most definitely the Chinese (he has a
startup based on a breakthrough technology that he
helped invent - and stupidly had WeChat accounts as
well as dealings with the Bank of China or HSBC). To
the best of my knowledge there's no reason for me to
be targeted; my hypothesis is that at one point I was
considered worthy of attention by someone or other,
but whatever is being done now is practice for
apprentice spooks or something. Another possibility
is that everyone is being surveilled, just most
people don't notice.

I'd not discount that last... at least not totally... I'd think that
some might be easier to be surveilled than others, but suspect it
possible all the same.....

or needed to do. It wasn't until 64 that there were
serious and probably permanent deficits, thank you,
Beatles.

Will you still need/feed me.....? When I turned 64, I was telling people that I had reached the will you still need me age.... and it went right over most people's heads.... (G)

Luckily I'm still doing the feeding if not the needing.

As I turned 64, it came to my awareness that when the Beatles wrote/sang that song they were much younger than 64 themselves... and it was all theoretical to them.... And how much my own viewpoint on what
constitutes being "old" has changed in those intervening years.... ;)

If indeed they reprised the song in later years, they
must have felt a frisson of irony. John, of course,
didn't get even close to that age.

True... the others have, though...

... A fusion of peanut butter gooeyness, a cracker crunch, and squid!

I could make such a dish.

I'm sure you could... ;) I associate that tagline with Jim Bodle for some reason... I think someone still around was doing so... :)

I doubt Bodle would have used it. Some twisted mind such
as Sacerdote's or Weller's might have formulated it in
honor of him, though.

That's probably the case... Dale probably told the tale about it...

Peanut and squid go pretty well together.

If you say so... :)

... Man cannot live on bread alone; that's why there's orange marmelade.

I read that as "man cannot live on broad beans."

How true... (G)

Man cannot live on breaded abalone (next try).

That might be a little more likely to work, though.... ;)

Teacher: Can you use "marmalade" in a sentence?
Johnny: Said the chick to the other chick, look at
the egg that marmalade!

Very creative young lad... (G) (I know, old joke...)

Johnny, use the words analyze and anatomy in a sentence.
Johnny (sings): My analyze over the ocean, my
analyze over the sea, my analyze over the ocean,
so bring back my anatomy.

Ana being, after all, Bonnie's older sister... ;)

ttyl neb

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