Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-10-25 Thread Ronn! Blankenship
At 11:08 PM Sunday 10/25/2009, Doug Pensinger wrote: Debbi wrote: > Hey, guess who's posting from home for the first time? > (I did have some serious help getting stuff hooked up, and I still hate this laptop's 'finger mouse.' -- hmm, hadn't thought of what that conjures up, but it's entirely

Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-10-25 Thread Doug Pensinger
Debbi wrote: > Hey, guess who's posting from home for the first time? > (I did have some serious help getting stuff hooked up, and I still hate this > laptop's 'finger mouse.' -- hmm, hadn't thought of what that conjures up, but > it's entirely apt...) Congrats on the new job, and on getting yo

Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-10-25 Thread David Hobby
Julia Thompson wrote: ... I think in both cases, it's sort of a deferred maintenance problem. When you finally have time, there's a BIG backlog to deal with. ... Yes. And in our case, it was compounded by our daughter refusing to sleep in the room she shared with her twin brother, starting

Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-10-25 Thread Bruce Bostwick
On Oct 25, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Deborah Harrell wrote: On Sun, 10/25/09, Doug Pensinger wrote: Good to hear from you all that haven't posted much, maybe we can get a rip roaring discussion going. Anybody over hear read Banks' new one? Hey, guess who's posting from home for the first time? (

RE: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-10-25 Thread Julia Thompson
-Original Message- From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On Behalf Of David Hobby Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 7:48 PM To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion Subject: Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform I think i

Re: "Cloud Computing" Smears (Was: Google Wave)

2009-10-25 Thread Deborah Harrell
> On Mon, 10/19/09, John Williams wrote: > >> Never underestimate the power of human error. As this > >> debacle demonstrates. > > (me, IIRC) Which particular debacle would that be? > I was referring to the Sidekick debacle: > http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Microsoft-Claims-Side

Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-10-25 Thread Deborah Harrell
> On Sun, 10/25/09, Doug Pensinger wrote: > Good to hear from you all that haven't posted much, maybe > we can get a > rip roaring discussion going.  Anybody over hear read > Banks' new one? Hey, guess who's posting from home for the first time? (I did have some serious help getting stuff hooke

Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-10-25 Thread David Hobby
Doug Pensinger wrote: Julia wrote: It's amazing what you find needs doing when you finally have all your kids in school for a full day for the first time ever. I might have most of it done by the time school gets out in early June! I've heard the same thing about retirement; my brother-in-l

Re: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-10-25 Thread Doug Pensinger
Julia wrote: > It's amazing what you find needs doing when you finally have all your kids > in school for a full day for the first time ever.  I might have most of it > done by the time school gets out in early June! I've heard the same thing about retirement; my brother-in-law and his brother,

RE: The thread about the thread Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-10-25 Thread Jo Anne
Well, Julia, in my experience (is that abbreviated IME?), it doesn't get better until they go to college, and even then they come home and disrupt your schedule =+)). I *still* wonder where the time goes, but I know way too much of it disappears into my computer screen. Mothers of young children