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Johnmacnab
Your post here makes me feel tripple guilty. First, for not being out in the beautiful weather working in the garden often enough. Second, for not writing and posting as often as I feel that I should. Third, for reading this post days ago, getting sidetracked from it, and not even commenting on it when it made such an impression on me at the time. I seem to be doing that a lot these days. Last evening on one of my quick checks into Blogit, I saw your name and a couple of comments on the comment page from you to your favorite bloggers. So, I came here today thinking that perhaps you had posted anew. But you have run off again, to other things. Have fun.
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TAPS.
on June 13, 2007 at 9:18 AM
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trisha4005
Interesting and fascinating, trisha.
posted by
johnmacnab
on June 3, 2007 at 11:59 AM
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Life is an interesting journey, isn't it?
posted by
trisha4005
on June 2, 2007 at 12:47 PM
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mneme
Most excellent, mneme. I look forward to reading the 'odd little bits here and there,' and I'm so glad that you are feeling more positive about life. We are fine, apart from being broke. I said to Ell yesterday, "This is a wonderful place to live - as long as you have money."
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johnmacnab
on June 2, 2007 at 8:25 AM
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johnmacnab
I wish. Thought I would drop in and tell you I have started writing on the expat experience. Might even post odd little bits here and there. How are you, and Ell, today?
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mneme
on June 2, 2007 at 4:57 AM
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Pat_B
Thanks for the information Pat. She seems to be OK now that she has stopped working. I say 'seemed' because all I get when I ask questions is 'Humph' and either a shake or nod of the head.
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johnmacnab
on May 29, 2007 at 3:46 PM
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mneme
Wow! You are rolling in cash, and in such a short time.
posted by
johnmacnab
on May 29, 2007 at 3:43 PM
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Re - pregnancy and being low on Vit. D...
It's the "sunshine" vitamin -- which means the further north you go the less of it you are exposed to. It's especially needed for calcium absorption... and luckily it's very cheap - here in our pharmacy a hundred of those thousand-unit pills was around $6. -- 3 months worth. And there's no health risk even if you get double the MDR... Hope your daughter's doing OK.
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Pat_B
on May 29, 2007 at 7:23 AM
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johnmacnab
That's easy - just click on your member details :) I just clicked on mine; pitiful. Good thing we're not here for the money.
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mneme
on May 29, 2007 at 6:18 AM
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mneme
I still carry a small notebook and pencil that fit my back pocket. Looking at it today I see a note I made when Samantha was licking salmon from the aluminium foil, and eating the foil as well. 'Allow dog to eat foil/buy metal detector/find crap in long grass.'
We'll both have to do a lot of juggling to be able to buy a laptop each, but I think we will have to. How else I am going to be able to find information like 'Who has been on Blogit for 4 years and only made $71.00?'
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johnmacnab
on May 29, 2007 at 5:05 AM
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Whacky
Perhaps we vegetated, Whacky. For looking up information I would go to the library, but there was a limited amount of information. The facts I was taught at school were mostly still true. Now the information is overwhelming, especially in percentages - 35% of women do this, 15% don't do that and the other 50% didn't' answer.
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johnmacnab
on May 29, 2007 at 4:57 AM
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johnmacnab
I think the article will be well-received.. and for writing, I do both. You don't want to know how many odd pieces of paper end up in my "to transcribe" pile - but equally, my laptop (my second, now) even keeps me company while I'm cooking, and wireless internet has to be one of the handiest inventions ever.
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mneme
on May 29, 2007 at 4:50 AM
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What did we do before computers?
posted by
Whacky
on May 28, 2007 at 9:25 PM
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afzal50
Thank you for the compliment, afzal50.
posted by
johnmacnab
on May 27, 2007 at 2:23 PM
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Thanks saul_relative. It is raining today, which has given me the opportunity to finally copy the joined-up writing article onto the computer. Now I can start researching. I'll let you know if it ever gets published.
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johnmacnab
on May 27, 2007 at 2:22 PM
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Pat
I sometimes wonder what I did without a computer, Pat. The first thing I do when I get up in the morning is switch on the computer, but I must admit to a perverse delight at not turning it on at all when the weather is delightful.
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johnmacnab
on May 27, 2007 at 2:18 PM
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Azur
If I must use a pen or pencil, I usually print the words. If I use running-writing, transcribing it a week later is a bit like solving the Rubi's Cube - to me, impossible. Perhaps I will cut and paste after all.
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johnmacnab
on May 27, 2007 at 7:00 AM
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riri0322
Thanks for reading, riri.
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johnmacnab
on May 27, 2007 at 6:51 AM
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Mademoiselle
When I do get a laptop, mademoiselle, I'll try not to take it with me to my swimming lessons. Mind you, the shock just might keep me afloat.
posted by
johnmacnab
on May 27, 2007 at 6:50 AM
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Good post !!!!
posted by
afzal50
on May 26, 2007 at 4:53 PM
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Excellent post, johnmacnab. I, too, feel guilty when I don't write at
least a post a day. As to your article, I'd say you probably have a winner on your hands. Get a few government figures, maybe some EU stats, some Canadian immigrant records (maybe a couple other countries, like the U.S.). I'd say you have an interesting article. I'd read it. I love stories about diasporas and exoduses...
posted by
saul_relative
on May 26, 2007 at 3:18 PM
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Living without a computer is something I think about from time to time...
It wouldn't be calling me when I stand on the porch and listen to the birds and observe the dew on the grass and think about painting a coat of something on the deck to keep the rain from soaking into the wood. And it wouldn't keep me "just one more minute" following a thread along the internet while the minute hand keeps moving and I've let the coffee go cold. I could focus. I could walk up to the coffee shop without feeling that umbilical pull to get back home right away...
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Pat_B
on May 26, 2007 at 2:32 PM
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I think there are
probably plenty of old farts interested in reading that kind of article. Of course there are any number of expat publications that cover the money (or lack of) side but the wry side is where your talents lie.
The reason I don't write into an old fashioned book first is that I never can read it later.
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Azur
on May 26, 2007 at 12:20 PM
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posted by
riri0322
on May 26, 2007 at 12:00 PM
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I was going to say ...
why don't you just get a laptop.
Good thing I read all the way through first.
I don't think I could survive without mine, btw. I take it everywhere (to the arboretum, the beach, etc) ... which reminds me, be very careful if you take it into the pool with you.
One thing a computer can do that most humans can't
is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse.
posted by
Mademoiselle
on May 26, 2007 at 10:53 AM
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