Re: Are engineers socially disadvantaged?

bill.sloman_at_ieee.org
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: 24 Jan 2005 15:21:03 -0800

John Larkin wrote:
> On 23 Jan 2005 22:18:54 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
>
> >
> >John Larkin wrote:
> >> On 23 Jan 2005 17:08:30 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
> >>
> >> >Can't say that I've got any personal experience of clubbing baby
> >seals
> >> >- is this something that supporters of the Republican party have
to
> >do
> >> >to establish their credentials as non-bleeding-heart
> >anti-ecologicists?
> >> >
> >>
> >> I wouldn't know. I did say it's not fun.
> >>
> >> What do you do for fun?
> >
> >Play field hockey - I'm too old and slow for regular or even veteran
> >hockey, but the Dutch have "trim-hockey" which is played by - mostly
-
> >fiftyish men and fortyish women. We claim it isn't competitive, and
> >don't have to pay affiliation fees to the dutch hockey association -
> >but it looks pretty competitive when you are playing.
>
>
> The equivalent here is probably co-ed softball. It's elegant (but not
> as elegant as real baseball) and not too strenuous, and generally
> leads to a lot of followup beer drinking and flirting. Mo and I, not
> being that sort of back-slapping social, like to hike, trails in the
> woods or stairways in the city.
>
> Exercise is very good for brains and spirits. Ditto coffee.

Hiking around the local woodlands is popular, but the woods are full of
ticks and the ticks are full of Borrelia burgdorferi. My wife is six
days into a 28-day course of antibiotic infusions to get rid of such an
infection - it took a while for her doctors to work out that her
radiculitis was probably a symptom of secondary Lyme disease.

Happily, the European races of Borrelia burgdorferi seem to go more for
the peripheral nerves, while their American cousins go for the central
nervous system. Not that my wife is happy with what her bugs are doing
to her right leg, but she is happy that they've stayed away from her
CNS.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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