RE: first 2013 summer potluck

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Responses below in-line.

 > From: Joan Lichterman via LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/~member>
 > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 21:21:54 +0000 (UTC)
 >
 > Date: 5/14/2013
 > Subject: RE: first 2013 summer potluck
 > 
 > Hi Robert,
 > 
 > Thanks so much for keeping in touch - which I'm not very good at. I
 > meant to write in January, after getting your solstice note. I'll be
 > in LA on 6/8 and unable to come, unfortunately, but hope to catch up
 > later this summer. I don't know when I last wrote and if I told you I
 > was having mobility problems. After a year of severe limitations I
 > had a total knee replacement last May, which was not entirely
 > successful despite more than 6 mo of intense PT. Now I can walk and
 > get around -- which is more than I could do last year -- and I'm
 > still doing a lot of PT in hopes of overcoming my remaining
 > limitations. I'd like to be able to ride a cycle again later this
 > year, but I can't yet bend my knee enough to do so.
 > 
 > Other than that, I'm still doing health & safety work for my UC union
 > (as a retiree), and that's why I'll be in LA in June. I helped
 > negotiate a collaborative lab safety effort with two other unions and
 > UC Irvine Environment, Health & Safety, and will be one of the
 > trainers for a pilot day-long lab safety course in June. Kinda funny
 > since I hadn't been in a real lab (not counting h.s. chemistry) until
 > a couple of months ago. I have lots of homework to do between now and
 > then!

Does indeed sound like you'll be busy.  We'll miss you, of course.  Sounds
like a worthwhile endeavor, however.

 > One day, while doing some web searching, I discovered you are working
 > in the same company as Anil Dindigal, a close friend of a "sister"
 > whose son I helped raise. I last saw him on Sunday during a Mother's
 > Day lunch. Such a small world.

That is hilarious.  It is amazing how small the bay area is -- you have to
watch what you say 'cause it can come back to haunt you just around the
corner!

 > So, that's my news. I hope you and Noelle are doing well, and that
 > we'll be able to catch up later this summer.

Yeah, hope so.

 > Best to you both,
 > 
 > Joan
 > 
 > 510.414.3899 (m)
 > 510.764.1372 (h)