From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   A little while ago I expressed to my wife some frustration   
   that we've a rehearsal with a bass player at 11:00am this   
   morning for an upcoming performance. But when we made   
   that commitment, we didn't know that our swimming pool   
   installation was going to get pushed up. And the electrical   
   to its motorized filter will be done today, and I want to   
   get right on completing the filling-with-water process so   
   that the filter can be used, to avoid the water going bad   
   in a way requiring "shock"... but now that rehearsal is in   
   the way, and bringing the pool filter into a working state   
   will require a bunch of sweat-producing work... and I've   
   already been putting off a shower to address other matters   
   that seemingly fell from the sky, and all I was trying to   
   express was some wonderings about whether we might become   
   better at leaving spaces in our schedule for things that   
   will fall from the sky, but all she heard was criticism of   
   her for having schedule the rehearsal when she did.. and   
   that led to increased frustration for having to explain to   
   her that's not what I was trying to say, and of course that   
   didn't go very well *either*, and so now what I really want   
   to do is slam the guitar through the sliding glass door,   
   because of *course* I didn't set out to create discord.   
      
   So, all you Word Believers, why did words fail   
   "me"? Are you ready to see how isolated points of view   
   make minced meat of what we want to believe is something   
   miraculous about words, so that if there's to be a lasting   
   interpersonal solution, it *has* to be something that is   
   fundamentally other than word-based?   
      
   --   
   oldernow   
   xyz001 at nym.hush.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)