On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 15:32:55 -0500, Tom Banes wrote:
Tuesday this week SWMBO called my from the ER (BAD!). Seems she'd been
over the Farmersville (yes, really the name) TX to see the traveling
Vietnam Memorial Wall and pay her respects to a HS Classmate who fell.
Heat and stress caused her heart to go wild (160+) and it wouldn't
seem to calm down despite her breathing exercises

That can be scary, yes.

I broke a few laws getting over there from the office (a Honda S2000
is quite quick if you want it to be, say 140+). Turns out she was
sitting up in an ER bed complaining she wanted out! All was fine and
after 2 hours she was out. Whew!

That's always a good sign. As we're taught in EMT school, "sick
patients don't bitch". If they're well enough to complain, they'll be
just fine. An oversimplification, but basically true.

walnuts (American, South American...) curly cherry and about every
kind of exotic I'd ever heard of. They had it in burl chunks two men
couldn't lift, they had it 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 8/4, they had it in pen
blanks, turning blanks, bowl blanks. They had it stacked everywhere!
It was unreal.

Sounds like heaven...

www.curlywoods.com

They really have some nice stuff and ship all over. Plus, from my
experience with Frank, they're good folks. I have no commercial
relationship, other than as a customer.

Thanks for the info!