In a message "Potato-Chip" Mary Dierickx writes:

> The Appellate Court is a typical NYC project that has had several phases of
>  work by several different architecture firms.

I was up on the scaffold with Ivan Myjer yesterday [thanks to everyone who
clued me in] and he faces a nasty set of problems - all kinds of different
repairs, deterioration, replacement materials (Vermont marble, Alabama
marble, cast stone, repairs to the yellowed statues consisting of bright
white replacement arms, hands, noses, even mask-like faces) - yikes!  Really
makes you appreciate granite.

He plugged Ken Follett and I said "Who?"; Ivan said he was on BP for a while,
but "God, I just didn't have the time."

Jeepers, Mary, who doesn't have the time for a special Cheese Straw
discussion thread?

Christopher Gray
(Always thought the best parties had their own doughnut machines.)