tam's opinion and she works at WalMart to boot. Karl got drunk and sent me another pornographic missive.then sent an apology when he sobered up.men!I wrote him I thought he was reading too much porn. > > From: "Tam Leeca" <http://www.hotmail.com/~tam_leeca> > Date: 2003/07/25 Fri PM 01:04:29 PDT > To: http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelle > Subject: Re: [Fwd: total recall, oh-Canada, vegetarians, Gore Vidal, and unlimited > nights and weekends] > > Noelle my Oakland voicemail number http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelle
The progressives fled BA for Sacramento when they were priced out in the late 90s - at least that's what I used to read in the paper when I still lived there. Like the artists, musicians, etc. Maybe you should move there eventually join Michele - The BA isn't for poor, creative people.
I forget the retirement rules for Canada - Australia lets you retire there so long as you have assets of at least 700,000 dollars (hmmm, American or Australian - makes a big difference!!)Why in god's name would you retire anywhere where you would have to deal with Canadian weather? And I thought Connie was miserable living there...
I'm telling you, but you don't believe me, that you will find more vegans and liberals by FAR etc. in SoCal these days (LA, not OC)- because even the "normal" people there love alternative stuff, or at least have a more open mind. There are entire enclaves in the Valley, NoHo, WHo, Los Felix - The progressive stuff in the BA just felt really stale to me, old 60s mantras, out of touch with reality. LAs progressive stuff actually WORKS - like putting sensors on the buses that can override red lights and keep the poor people/people dedicated to living sans cars MOVING. Like making that new power plant out of the methane gas from trash!! There is fresh, creative thinking in SoCal, with the willingness to TRY stuff, not just talk about it. Or there was - I think the BA is dead, but I doubt LA is...Stuck in NY, I miss being on the wave in terms of trends and all that CA fun stuff.
Are you pro/con the recall?
Got a letter from Ila today. She included a copy of my nephew Jesse's letter - after reading it sure sounds like they censor his mail - there is a lot about praying and gospel, blah blah, blah. He also has already lost 30 pounds, in less than four months!! I can't write him directly - have to send to SLC, and I bet they open his mail before they send it on. Hmmm....I know what you will think of that!! Chandra goes for her training Aug 6, and she is assigned to Oklahoma City. She goes for 18 months, so they will finish up around the same time.
Jesse wrote Ila that he loves Chandra with all his heart and soul and wants to marry her when he finishes his mission. (Awww!! So sweet...don't you wish Robert would say that, instead of having to drag his sorry butt to the altar?!!!) Of course, I already knew that from being around the two of them. Men never love anyone the way they do that first sweetheart - My fingers are crossed for them because Chandra is steady as they come and Jesse will be happy (if a v. busy, overworked Mormon) with her. And then I can be the Aunt who winters with them in CA, ha ha. Apparently my father is having a hernia operation today - no insurance, of course. The doctor told him he won't be around long is he doesn't cut out the heavy drinking, smoking.
No word if other sister hatched. My mother said - see ya before I leave for OR. Yeah, right, I said. I assume she left for Portland on the 23rd!
What a great family!!
Ok, you will laugh. I am a new Wal Mart associate. Ha ha, how the mighty have fallen from the SF skyscraper in the skies days...The place appears every bit as chaotic to work at as it is to shop in. Which means, I probably will LIKE it!! But I had heard although they pay crap, they have good benefits. I immediately signed up for the stock purchase plan - you get to buy stock at what amounts to a 13% discount. Where else can you meet 13% these days? And that's before any market action...Plus they have HI and profit sharing for even part time people, and a lot of other fun, but goofy stuff. Like for every week the store goes without an accident, someone gets $50 gift certificate through a drawing. And I get 10% off of already dirt cheap prices. One of my relatives came to buy a truckload of camping gear and her face fell when she saw me. I'm sure she was thinking, holy crap, I could have just saved $20 if I knew she worked here. Anyway, even though I do need the $$ the best part is that I will have someplace to go a few days a week while I look for a real job.
I know you hate Wal Mart, but in overpriced Rochester, where a few fat cats in town control everything and everything is so much more expensive than it should be - it is a breath of fresh air. They are buying up pieces of distressed property that have looked like junk for a generation or more, and in the place of the junk, shiny new stores and jobs - Rochester needs Wal Mart. Wegmans did everything they could to keep them out - including buying up retail space just to let it rot - but now they are in (finally!) and expanding pretty quickly.
I should send Andy an email about my new job, ha ha - after his nasty email about how he has been so busy developing himself and I've just "stagnated" that should really put the nail on the friendship coffin. But I could talk to Andy all day, and he would never be able to understand why I could be just as happy (or more) in a Wal Mart job at peanuts as I could be making $100k in my supposedly elite SF job. Andy is so externally driven - he can't understand a free spirit like me - he really plays by the rules of the world - thinks accruing money means you've "succeeded." I've tried to talk to him (he's miserable driving himself to "succeed" all of the time) but he really can't understand what you reap from living a slower, more spiritual life. Even Ms. Noelle has exhorted me to get a job!! Why are Americans so uncomfortable when they're not working a mile a minute? When I got off the treadmill it seemed to make a lot of people really, really uneasy. Maybe they think...what if she is right?