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[da]

This morning I was up at the crack of Ugh to drop the car off at the dealer's for warranty repairs. At least, we hope they are warranty repairs- transmissions are not cheap. They've got a pretty streamlined system now; you drive into a bay, they tick stuff off on a clipboard, and shuffle you either directly to their coffee counter (supplied by a local nonprofit) or to a desk to talk more about your car. If only they had recorded the information I told them on the phone- the guy didn't know it was under warranty.

At the shop, after I collected my coffee and cookie, I ran into one of dan's collegues, Arnie V, who I also enjoyed chatting with Saturday at dan's concert. He's retiring in a year, and we talked about the difficulty of figuring out what to do next. Like dan, he doesn't really like computers even though he's a Computer Science professor. I'm sure he'll do fine, though; he likes people and puttering with woodworking, and I can totally see him working on Habitat for Humanity or some Mennonite relief program.

For me, it's frustrating that there are so many liberal Mennonites and so few Quakers in this area. So much in common, but there's this pesky... Christianity... requirement to become Mennonite. :) I enjoyed chatting with Arnie quite a bit, and we shared the shuttle-bus drive to the University as well, so it felt much shorter than an hour.

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[sqrt-joy.livejournal.com]

Wait wait wait - there isn't a Christianity requirement for being a Quaker? Apparently, I need to read more.

(And I love Arnie, he's a great person)

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

This really seems to be one of the most common misconceptions of Friends (right up there with, "you didn't die off in the 1700s?").

Quakers range from Universalists (most of whom aren't Christians) to Evangelicals (who are very much Christians and really don't like our kind) to Pagan Friends (I can't find a good link to an article by a Pagan Friend; our friend Stasa runs a mailing list for them, though) to Non-theist Friends (who are, well, not theists).

Now, this doesn't mean that every one of these groups is non-controversial to every other one. [I don't care for Evangelical Friends much, and I have some issues with non-theist Friends, which mostly have to do with how we Friends make decisions, and how I don't think that's compatible with nontheism.] But there are all kinds. There's Jewish Quakers, too; that's a recently more visible group.

[mynatt.livejournal.com]

but there's this pesky... Christianity... requirement

*Sigh* Tell me about it.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

...it occurs to me that I don't know how creedal Mennonites are, such as about things like the trinity. But I can look it up. :)

[kraig.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've got a Toyota from Heffner. We were... confused. Yes, that's the word. ... when we went to get our door locks looked at. (Just a bit of lubricant, which is what we thought, but a warranty's a warranty and I don't wanna be told "tough titty, you tried to fix it yourself and messed it up".)

... Arnie is retiring?! Wow, I didn't think he was that old, he looks younger. But I guess I don't know him very well either.

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

I think he's 62 or so.

[kraig.livejournal.com]

I would have guessed him for mid-50s.

Then again, that's my default guess for "looks older than 40," now that I think of it. It's either "dad's age" or "younger than dad" or "dear $DEITY why hasn't he retired yet?!"

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

I think he looks young too. I would've guessed about 60, which is the new 50, don'tcha know.

Now, speaking of people looking younger than they were, Dan H. confused me considerably at the CS xmas party when he introduced me to his grandkid. He sure doesn't look old enough for that!

[kraig.livejournal.com]

Adopted, I think, or the kids are. He told me once but I forget.

But yeah.

Conceivably, I could have step-grandchildren by the time I'm 41 if SB spawns as quickly as her mother did. Hopefully not. That's a frightening concept.

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[(Anonymous)]

You just overflowed my Dan-buffer. 0xFF Dans is upper threshold.

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[da-lj.livejournal.com]

...and have I added the 256th dan? ...I didn't think so.

Hmph. ;)