-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 07-17-19  06:29 <=-

 >  >  >  ML> The first dates are Saturday and Sunday of the
 >  >  >  ML> echo picnic. The working conditions are okay
 >  >  >  ML> and the money is more than okay, but she'll have 
 >  >  >  ML> to do without me for at least the first weekend.
 >  >  > Gotta keep your priorities straight, after all... You can join them
 >  >  > for the second part....   Sounds like a nice gig... 
 >  >  ML> We shall see. Four digits for her.
 >  > Pretty nice.... 
 >  ML> And the music isn't either obnoxious or difficult,
 >  ML> though Ms. Anker wnts some of the pieces transposed.
 > Depending on the key, that shouldn't be too bad....
 ML> For those who can do it on the fly it's a piece of cake. 
 ML> Bonnie will have to practice beforehand.

I'd need it written out.... and probably would also have to practice
beforehand as well... 
 
 >  ML> Have you eaten there enough to figure out the
 >  ML> slack times, when more interaction is possible
 >  ML> and Fu has time to hear his own thoughts?
 > Sorta...  It's not as predictable as one would think... sometimes I
 > expect no one else there, and then it gets busy... or we figure it'll be
 > busy and it's (at least temporarily) dead....   But there does tend to
 > be some usual patterns....
 ML> Perhaps there are other regular customers who try
 ML> to psyche out the crowds and come at odd times, and
 ML> then you all sometimes unwittingly congregate.

Possibly... And one never knows when someone new will have just
discovered the place.... probably best for Fu that there are regulars
happening in at the same time, to put the newcomers at ease (sometimes
just by being there)....

 >  ML> It's a common cultural thing, food as consolation
 >  ML> best taken with kinship as a sauce. The Jews do it,
 >  ML> the Chinese do it, the Irish are famous for it.
 > Yup... 
 ML> Food is the great comforter, after all. There's
 ML> something wonderful about eating all one wants and the 
 ML> full stomach that comes after. One can temporarily
 ML> ignore the pain and loss.
 
And just the act of having a meal together is stabilizing...

 >  ML> It's hard when someone interprets a rise of zero decibels
 >  ML> and a greater care in enunciating as shouting. And when one
 >  ML> points out that one wasn't shouting, the reply is along the
 >  ML> lines of "but you were thinking shouting."
 > True, sometimes one just can't win.... 
 ML> And then there's the complaint from out in left field
 ML> and my puzzled silence, to which the response is always
 ML> "it's all about me, is it."

Are we entering some sort of early dementia, perhaps...?

ttyl      neb

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