Re: Shinies and not-so shiny  was: shinies and sickies
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Thu Jul 23 2015 14:24:06

 NB> I'm sorta testing a theory... that something might be thinking that some
 NB> replies are dupes, despite the different dates and all... possibly in
 NB> response to the opposite problem in A_L, where messages come back as
 NB> dupes with only the time-date changed...  all very weird...  ;)  So I'm
 NB> changing the subject lines for all of them now...

  I've been wondering about that a little bit myself, lately.  I'm glad you've
decided to get the initiative to test it out. :)  Let's see what happens.

 NB> I was always a very fast reader, so I'd get through a book in a day or
 NB> so, often less... Books got to be a little less of a shiny when my eyes
 NB> started giving me problems... sigh...  ;)

  Me too.  I just lost the ability to do it for pleasure in college.  It's
slowly coming back, but not as quickly as I'd like.  Maybe I need to sever
myself from the electronic teat here a little bit, as well.

 NB> True... one starts to see that some things just aren't really as shiny
 NB> as they appear, when necessities by necessity trump them...    Like
 NB> my son discovering that he could spend the same amount of money on
 NB> snacky foods for a day or real food for two weeks... and the money in
 NB> hand had to last him until the next small paycheck, in two weeks... ;) 
 NB> He called me from college to report that fact, and his very wise
 NB> decision to go with the real food... ;)  That was a couple of decades
 NB> ago now, but the lesson seems to have stuck, mostly... ;)

  A good example.  I'm looking very much forward to [hopefully] seeing ones
like that from my own little man here.  He's already showed some remarkable
discretion in being able to decide when it's a good idea to splurge on the junk
food or save and get something a few notches higher.  I didn't really expect to
see that at 8.

 NB> Guess so.  ;)   Hopefully it won't be too bad, and you'll be able to
 NB> just find areas that she could edit some to make them better...  And if
 NB> you're really lucky, it'll be good, and you'll be able to tell her so.  :)

  I'm hoping so.  I finally got through the first 10 pages early last night. 
I'm going to try to make a goal of getting through at least 20 pages a night
until I'm done.  So far the writing is pretty friggin' good.  Reminds me a
little bit of Peter Straub.

 NB> Hopefully it will all work out properly in the end... maybe even
 NB> already...  Sounds like someone isn't particularly meticulous with
 NB> keeping accounts....

  Yeah...  Well the paperwork is coming to us separately now, so I'm not going
to be losing money like that again.

 NB> Not just buddhist... :)   Material things aren't permanent just by their
 NB> nature... 

  Well Buddhism is just a philosophy for desribing the world and how to be the
best person you can be throughout that.  It's not a religion.  One might say,
though, that all is Buddhism, just as all is Physics, and start a great
religious war that way.  ;)

 NB> I see.  ;)   Well, I've things now I have to go do, so I'll have to
 NB> break for now, and get back to messaging later...  :)

  Ditto that.  More soon!

  -D
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