tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052050523351394.post8144054597605409618..comments2023-10-03T20:58:22.216-05:00Comments on Peni Griffin - Idea Garage Sale: The Work is Not MePeni R. Griffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01781761011389542245noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052050523351394.post-37316480547359320512013-03-22T08:50:30.221-05:002013-03-22T08:50:30.221-05:00Yes, I did, but that made it into my memory as &qu...Yes, I did, but that made it into my memory as "sent a book to Sunbee" rather than "sent a book to Sunbee in Idaho." Hmm, I bet Idaho's a grand place to be at a certain point in spring migration. If I ever get my birding mojo (and my binoculars) back.<br /><br />If you're used to cooking around allergies then I guess neither a hypoglycemic vegetarian on a low-sodium diet and a carnivore who won't eat nuts or crunchy vegetables would be too difficult. It's feeding us both at the same time that's a pain in the butt.Peni R. Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01781761011389542245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052050523351394.post-54318463627390911192013-03-21T13:40:34.467-05:002013-03-21T13:40:34.467-05:00Sorry, I thought you knew where we are, up in Sout...Sorry, I thought you knew where we are, up in Southeast Idaho. (At one point you had my address: you sent me 11,000 Years Lost.)<br />Since I cook for a cardiac patient/diabetic daily, mostly from scratch, food issues don't scare me.<br />One of the interesting smaller reasons why people home school is severe allergies, actually, so I think we encounter food problems more (even though we don't have them ourselves) than others would.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052050523351394.post-46372317400449161822013-03-21T07:59:51.297-05:002013-03-21T07:59:51.297-05:00We don't travel much, and less since Health Cr...We don't travel much, and less since Health Crap started, but tell me where you are and I'll bear it in mind. The health crap makes us a bit of a pain to cook for, I'll warn you now.<br /><br />Like most dysfunctional behavior, cyberstalking is a variant on normal human behavior, and that this has survival value even in societies that officially deplore it can be seen by looking at the careers of various politicians and corporate administrators. If you choose the right targets and harass them in the correct ways in the correct contexts, you can enhance your own status in certain group at the expense of people who accomplish things, without the hassle of doing productive work yourself. <br /><br />But it weirds me out that anybody could imagine I'm the correct target at this stage of my life, in this context or that of the newsgroup. There is nothing to gain by annoying small-time internet participants, except certain personal psychological satisfactions, which you'd think would be nullified by the knowledge that you were making a jackass of yourself for no real benefit.<br /><br />Where there is everything to gain - pleasure, satisfaction, emotional security, occasionally even status enhancement and money - by doing the best work you can.Peni R. Griffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01781761011389542245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9052050523351394.post-21857457166654973642013-03-20T15:59:31.998-05:002013-03-20T15:59:31.998-05:00Peni,
Glad you've got this handled. I've ...Peni,<br />Glad you've got this handled. I've seen different author-bloggers handle it in different ways. Whatever works.<br />Seems like everyone deals with this to some extent and those who do it always justify themselves because they're 'helping you see the light' or some such, usually with a complete misunderstanding of what and why you're doing what you do in the first place. My impression, from those I've dealt with, is that they have very little self-confidence, and require instead group approval. They then can't accept or tolerate the existence of someone who doesn't need the approval of whatever group it is they see themselves of being part of. This behavior is so common, maybe it's a remnant of something that helped us function as small tribes?<br />Best wishes to you--and I hope you know that if you ever should find yourself up my way, we'd love to have you (and Damon, of course) to dinner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com