• Various Things

    From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Tue Dec 20 06:02:00 2022
    Barry,

    As long as it stays good you're fine! My bilirubin results just into
    the high side by a decimal point or two. Have been for consistent for decades. (Hey: someone has to be on the norms up! <g>)

    Christian comedian Chonda Pierce has sleep apnea (I do as well). She said
    her reading in the sleep study was "very high", and she quipped "I've always been an over achiever". <G> But, she added that "you look like an astronaut with that mask on, then have this huge hickey all over your face!!". :P

    They've made progress with these, but the one I originally had required water...and the way lightning occurs here during thunderstorms, I could be fatally electrocuted if an overnight lightning strike occurs. I have no
    idea where it is now...somewhere in the stuff in the garage, but after
    hernia surgery awhile back, I can't lift anything heavy.

    Shoot...just the food off the plate to the mouth (I do watch what I eat
    <G>) can be a major effort...especially this time of year. I'm trans-slender, but I identify as "skinny". <G>

    I told Santa "Define Naughty", and he said "OK, I'll skip your place". <G>

    Sort of a mixed metaphor: never look at a doctor's bill on an empty stomach.

    That happened in an episode of The Flintstones. When Fred and Barney
    entered the clinic, this guy was coming out screaming in agony. Fred asked
    if the guy was OK, and the nurse said "He's fine...the doctor just showed
    him the bill". <G>

    I initially read as "polite"!!

    The dry corneas with my eyes have been really bad lately. With the central heat running nearly constantly with the cold weather outside (it'll really
    be brutal here Thursday afternoon until after Christmas), my eyes and sinuses have been drying out.

    But where did you find those high-heeled sequined cowgirl boots in your size?!

    Pandora's Palatial Palace. <G>

    Those darn Raspberry Pi's have become real expensive due problems in
    the semiconductor market. Good news is just read a 100,000 (not sure
    of the number) will be available soon. Hopefully the ones I ordered
    over a year ago at normal price will be shipped. (Good news: my credit card hasn't been charged. Bad news: makes statement reconsiliation a
    hare more complicated.)

    There is a different type of RPi now, called an ODroid N2+ -- you have to download a different version of Linux, but there's a 2GB and a 4GB version available, both from Amazon. It also has a large heat sink, so the data won't be throttled if the unit gets warm from use. It can be rather pricy though...
    I think around $200 for 2GB and $350 for 4GB (Canadian funds...not sure what the US equivalent is).

    Oh now THAT makes an interesting mental image!!

    I ass-umed you would like that. <bseg>

    There's a few "comment cartoon panels" (not sure what they're called)
    with pictures like Wile E. Cayote blowing up something, Elmer Fudd and
    his rifle and the comment underneath along the lines of "I remember watching these cartoons and I haven't blown anything up/killed anyone".
    I don't think we knew better back then, possibly more how reacted.

    We were smart enough to know "Do Not Try This At Home".

    Go back and rinse your mouth!

    As Crusoe the celebrity Dachshund, with his "sister" Daphne did, in
    preparing for "Hurricane Ding-a-Ling", they had plenty of fresh water...
    but it came from Eau De Toilet. :P

    Those will help! ...Wondering how the "provide transportation" part
    will be working: could be either a pre-paid type of service or
    post-paid where you pay, submit the bill, and then get reimbursed.

    Not sure...there was some other mail in the Post Office Box this morning according to the Informed Delivery app...but with other expenses, I have
    to let it wait until after the new year.

    "Homebound" could have a lot of consideration. If simply no car a lot
    of people in New York City could qualify! "Can't leave the house"
    almost implies one has an ankle monitor!

    That's true...but my criminal record is clean. Before I did a brief stint
    at the Little Rock 911 center (the stress is so extreme that only 1 out of
    100 people can do it...I wasn't one of them), they did a full criminal background check on me.

    Hmm: imagine a T. Rex as a waiter/waitress! Poor thing trying to carry
    a platter with those short arms!

    He probably had one heck of a belch. :P Or, he could've been like Marvin
    the T-Rex in the Hoyle Board Games.

    Yup. My Mother has sort of prepared herself for the potential nasty weather: has a supply of food which should last at least a week. A
    year or so I got her some LED nightlights with battery backup. I don't think I've gotten through to her the cordless phones won't work if the power is off but she does have several wired telephones. And she does keep her cell phone charged though she tends to forget how to make
    calls.

    We might get a dusting of snow here on Thursday, but could see a 30 degree temperature drop in 2 hours!! It'll be below freezing from Thursday afternoon until the day after Christmas...that's pipe bursting weather. I'm afraid many folks whose pipes freeze up will try to thaw them with a blowtorch, and end
    up burning their residence down. They're also warning folks to "stay off of
    the ponds", as the ice will be too thin to hold any kind of weight.

    Step #1: Slow down!!

    I'm speeding because I have to go poop. :P

    We had some light snow last night: lawn is white and some on the cars
    but looks like the sidewalks, driveway and street is almost clear.
    (That lat one wil probably change in a week or so!)

    Apparently, the cold will go all the way down through Florida...the winter clothes are broken out once it gets below 70!! They were expecting a freeze
    all the way to central Florida, if not further south. There goes the price
    of orange and grapefruit juice through the roof...just like all the rest of
    the groceries.

    12ø here currently at 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning. High forecast to be
    22ø. ...Looked at a different report to get the forecast and it said
    9ø -- think the 9ø is the NWS at the Quad City Airport in Moline, IL, about five miles East. The 12ø is probably from a hobbyist a few
    blocks from here. There's another NWS at the Davenport (IA) municipal airport about seven miles northwest and not unusual to have a four or
    five degree difference.

    That's the same with the Little Rock National Airport, and the National Weather Service at the North Little Rock Airport...the latter is on a hill,
    and on some nights, the temperature difference can be from 10-20 degrees!!

    Just how cold is a stone?

    That's probably part of the Congressional earmarks and pork to study that.
    I still want to know how much of our tax dollars was spent to determine that "everyone farts...from 15 times a day, to 20 times an hour". That was a very crappy waste of money, IMO. :P

    Nature and a nightmare woke me...so after I finish the BBS stuff, I'm going back to bed for a bit.

    Daryl

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Wed Dec 21 10:58:00 2022

    Hi Daryl!

    As long as it stays good you're fine! My bilirubin results just into
    the high side by a decimal point or two. Have been for consistent for decades. (Hey: someone has to be on the norms up! <g>)
    Christian comedian Chonda Pierce has sleep apnea (I do as
    well). She said her reading in the sleep study was "very high",
    and she quipped "I've always been an over achiever". <G> But, she
    added that "you look like an astronaut with that mask on, then
    have this huge hickey all over your face!!". :P

    She's over-achieving again: supposed to be just the neck.


    They've made progress with these, but the one I originally had
    required water...and the way lightning occurs here during
    thunderstorms, I could be fatally electrocuted if an overnight
    lightning strike occurs. I have no idea where it is
    now...somewhere in the stuff in the garage, but after hernia
    surgery awhile back, I can't lift anything heavy.

    And you thought popping buttons off your shirt was bad!


    Shoot...just the food off the plate to the mouth (I do watch
    what I eat <G>) can be a major effort...especially this time of
    year. I'm trans-slender, but I identify as "skinny". <G>

    Let me guess: you use your eye teeth to watch your food?!


    I told Santa "Define Naughty", and he said "OK, I'll skip your
    place". <G>

    But now Santa is being naught for not sharing!


    Sort of a mixed metaphor: never look at a doctor's bill on an empty stomach.
    That happened in an episode of The Flintstones. When Fred and
    Barney entered the clinic, this guy was coming out screaming in
    agony. Fred asked if the guy was OK, and the nurse said "He's
    fine...the doctor just showed him the bill". <G>

    Pyschiatrists could use that for shock treatment!



    The dry corneas with my eyes have been really bad lately. With
    the central heat running nearly constantly with the cold weather
    outside (it'll really be brutal here Thursday afternoon until
    after Christmas), my eyes and sinuses have been drying out.

    Good news: you won't have a runny nose! Bad news: blow your nose and
    sand come out!
    As for the dry corneas, maybe do what my optometrist has suggested: 'deep blinks'. Blink for about a half-second and mid-blink (when lids closed
    fully) squeeze the lid muscles together. This should help produce a
    tear or two and help force the liquid into the eye membrane. (I found
    doing too often is counter-productive as only so much lubricating tears
    is produced at a time.)



    Those darn Raspberry Pi's have become real expensive due problems in
    the semiconductor market. Good news is just read a 100,000 (not sure
    of the number) will be available soon. Hopefully the ones I ordered
    over a year ago at normal price will be shipped. (Good news: my credit card hasn't been charged. Bad news: makes statement reconsiliation a
    hare more complicated.)

    There is a different type of RPi now, called an ODroid N2+ --
    you have to download a different version of Linux, but there's a
    2GB and a 4GB version available, both from Amazon. It also has a
    large heat sink, so the data won't be throttled if the unit gets
    warm from use. It can be rather pricy though... I think around
    $200 for 2GB and $350 for 4GB (Canadian funds...not sure what the
    US equivalent is).

    Last I checked the US was about 80% of the Candian. ...Yup: US$1 is
    CN$1.36. As for the alternative to the RPi, I considered but at this
    point I want to keep things simple so everything is pretty much the same
    and interchangeable. Plus the prices are still higher than I like,
    especially when I have a couple of spare units.




    There's a few "comment cartoon panels" (not sure what they're called)
    with pictures like Wile E. Cayote blowing up something, Elmer Fudd and
    his rifle and the comment underneath along the lines of "I remember watching these cartoons and I haven't blown anything up/killed anyone".
    I don't think we knew better back then, possibly more how reacted.
    We were smart enough to know "Do Not Try This At Home".

    I don't know if I would classify myself as that smart as did a few shall-we-say dumb things but just knew not to do some things.


    Go back and rinse your mouth!
    As Crusoe the celebrity Dachshund, with his "sister" Daphne
    did, in preparing for "Hurricane Ding-a-Ling", they had plenty of
    fresh water... but it came from Eau De Toilet. :P

    Yum! A hint of <cut to commercial!!>. ...Theoretically the tank water
    is clean enough for human consumption.


    Those will help! ...Wondering how the "provide transportation" part
    will be working: could be either a pre-paid type of service or
    post-paid where you pay, submit the bill, and then get reimbursed.
    Not sure...there was some other mail in the Post Office Box
    this morning according to the Informed Delivery app...but with
    other expenses, I have to let it wait until after the new year.

    'Com on 2025!! <g>



    "Homebound" could have a lot of consideration. If simply no car a lot
    of people in New York City could qualify! "Can't leave the house"
    almost implies one has an ankle monitor!
    That's true...but my criminal record is clean. Before I did a
    brief stint at the Little Rock 911 center (the stress is so
    extreme that only 1 out of 100 people can do it...I wasn't one of
    them), they did a full criminal background check on me.

    I wouldn't want a emergency services type of job. My thinking process
    is more a super-quick consideration of (most) options and so there is a quarter- or half-second delay before I respond. More than enough to
    probably further freak-out the person calling about an emergency.


    Hmm: imagine a T. Rex as a waiter/waitress! Poor thing trying to carry
    a platter with those short arms!
    He probably had one heck of a belch. :P Or, he could've been
    like Marvin the T-Rex in the Hoyle Board Games.

    I'm thinking Marvin the Martian -- two completely different Marvins!
    That's another job I wouldn't consider; well, multiple: server,
    busperson, cook/chef. Don't like touching dirty plates -- well,
    transporting is fine, just I need to rinse by hands after.


    Yup. My Mother has sort of prepared herself for the potential nasty weather: has a supply of food which should last at least a week. A
    year or so I got her some LED nightlights with battery backup. I don't think I've gotten through to her the cordless phones won't work if the power is off but she does have several wired telephones. And she does keep her cell phone charged though she tends to forget how to make
    calls.
    We might get a dusting of snow here on Thursday, but could see
    a 30 degree temperature drop in 2 hours!! It'll be below freezing
    from Thursday afternoon until the day after Christmas...that's
    pipe bursting weather. I'm afraid many folks whose pipes freeze
    up will try to thaw them with a blowtorch, and end up burning
    their residence down. They're also warning folks to "stay off of
    the ponds", as the ice will be too thin to hold any kind of
    weight.

    Right: it hasn't been cold enough long enough to have the pond water
    freeze to a sufficiently thick depth.

    They've issued a Winter Weather Warning (whatever the correct term is --
    sorry Mike!) for Midnight tonight (currently December 21) through I
    think Midnight Saturday - several days anyway. And not only for here in eastern Iowa but ALLLL of the Midwest. Problem isn't so much with the
    snow amount (regionally anyway from 2" for SE Iowa to 12" in NE Iowa --
    I'm in the middle) but more an issue with the blowing of the light
    fluffy snow in the 50 MPH winds. Actually I'm kind of excited to be in
    the storm, though plan to stay inside a snuggly-warm house and experience
    it through the windows.


    Step #1: Slow down!!
    I'm speeding because I have to go poop. :P

    Keep it: freeze, break into chunks for traction!


    We had some light snow last night: lawn is white and some on the cars
    but looks like the sidewalks, driveway and street is almost clear.
    (That lat one wil probably change in a week or so!)
    Apparently, the cold will go all the way down through
    Florida...the winter clothes are broken out once it gets below
    70!! They were expecting a freeze all the way to central Florida,
    if not further south. There goes the price of orange and
    grapefruit juice through the roof...just like all the rest of the groceries.

    Yeah.... One would think if frozen on the trees the price of frozen
    orange and grapefruit juice would go down as already frozen!


    12ø here currently at 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning. High forecast to be
    22ø. ...Looked at a different report to get the forecast and it said
    9ø -- think the 9ø is the NWS at the Quad City Airport in Moline, IL, about five miles East. The 12ø is probably from a hobbyist a few
    blocks from here. There's another NWS at the Davenport (IA) municipal airport about seven miles northwest and not unusual to have a four or
    five degree difference.
    That's the same with the Little Rock National Airport, and the
    National Weather Service at the North Little Rock Airport...the
    latter is on a hill, and on some nights, the temperature
    difference can be from 10-20 degrees!!

    It seems like shouldn't be true but it is! Not that much distance but
    can be quite a bit of change.


    Nature and a nightmare woke me...so after I finish the BBS
    stuff, I'm going back to bed for a bit.

    And you've better be sleeping Saturday around midnight!!



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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Fri Dec 23 01:24:00 2022
    Barry,

    She's over-achieving again: supposed to be just the neck.

    That reminds me of the joke where the preacher and his wife had this
    male parrot, and it was a rare breed. But, the parrot would always say
    "Let Us Pray".

    Well, they decided they wanted to breed him, and went to a local pet shop...and found a female parrot, who was in a romantic mood, always
    saying "Let's Neck!!".

    They bought the female parrot, and took it home, putting it in the
    cage with their male parrot...but they weren't sure how they'd react
    to each other. But, they were relieved when the parroted exchange <G>
    went like this:

    Male: "Let Us Pray".
    Female: "Let's Neck!!".
    Male: "My prayers have been answered!!" <G>

    And you thought popping buttons off your shirt was bad!

    At least the button on the pants didn't pop, and the britches fell.
    Because without the undergarments, it would've been "full moon rising"
    (never mind "Bad Moon Rising" by Credence Clearwater Revival <G>). I
    knew you needed that visual at this hour <g,d,r>.

    Let me guess: you use your eye teeth to watch your food?!

    Got to make sure it doesn't escape off the silverware. <G>

    But now Santa is being naughty for not sharing!

    That's why all the Grandmas have commandeered reindeer to run over
    all the elves!! <G>

    Pyschiatrists could use that for shock treatment!

    I would say so!!

    Good news: you won't have a runny nose! Bad news: blow your nose and
    sand come out!

    Better boogers than blood. :P And, there's a graphic on the internet
    with "Booger Nutrition Facts". :P

    As for the dry corneas, maybe do what my optometrist has suggested:
    'deep blinks'. Blink for about a half-second and mid-blink (when lids closed fully) squeeze the lid muscles together. This should help
    produce a tear or two and help force the liquid into the eye membrane.

    Well, when they start bothering me, then it's time to get away from the computer...which means I'm going back to bed after I finish this packet.

    Last I checked the US was about 80% of the Candian. ...Yup: US$1 is CN$1.36. As for the alternative to the RPi, I considered but at this point I want to keep things simple so everything is pretty much the
    same and interchangeable. Plus the prices are still higher than I
    like, especially when I have a couple of spare units.

    That's the least of my worries right now. I am getting a better Medicare
    HMO plan after the first of the year...saving on identity theft protection (saving $60 a year), and on visits to medical specialists (saving $25 per visit). There are also other "benefits" with it. However, finances are
    tighter than a frog's butt underwater right now <G>, so I can't go out
    again until next year (Jan. 3).

    I don't know if I would classify myself as that smart as did a few shall-we-say dumb things but just knew not to do some things.

    Just like the meme where the bear who is needing to fart, is asking
    "Anybody got a lighter??". :P

    Yum! A hint of <cut to commercial!!>. ...Theoretically the tank water
    is clean enough for human consumption.

    That may be theoretically true, but in practicality, I say "no thanks".

    'Com on 2025!! <g>

    So, you want to skip 2023 and 2024?? :P

    I wouldn't want a emergency services type of job. My thinking process
    is more a super-quick consideration of (most) options and so there is a quarter- or half-second delay before I respond. More than enough to probably further freak-out the person calling about an emergency.

    I admire the folks who can handle that job...I'm not one of them.

    I'm thinking Marvin the Martian -- two completely different Marvins! That's another job I wouldn't consider; well, multiple: server,
    busperson, cook/chef. Don't like touching dirty plates -- well, transporting is fine, just I need to rinse by hands after.

    The Illidium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator!! <BOOM!>.

    Right: it hasn't been cold enough long enough to have the pond water freeze to a sufficiently thick depth.

    At this typing (1am CST, Dec. 23, it's down to +5 with a wind chill of -18!! Before the cold front passed, it was up to 45, but the bottom fell out of the thermometer, and it was snowing an hour later.

    light fluffy snow in the 50 MPH winds. Actually I'm kind of excited to
    be in the storm, though plan to stay inside a snuggly-warm house and experience it through the windows.

    The snow was "dry", light, and powdery. But, all the moisture on the roads now is a solid sheet of ice. As long as I can keep power and internet, I'll
    be happy.

    Keep it: freeze, break into chunks for traction!

    Or it proves what a crappy driver you are. :P

    Yeah.... One would think if frozen on the trees the price of frozen
    orange and grapefruit juice would go down as already frozen!

    A small amount of temperatures slightly below freezing makes the fruit sweeter...but too much of the cold kills it.

    It seems like shouldn't be true but it is! Not that much distance but
    can be quite a bit of change.

    Just like where a tornado destroys one side of a street, and leaves the
    other side alone.

    And you've better be sleeping Saturday around midnight!!

    If the insomnia kicks in again, I won't be.

    Daryl

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Sat Dec 24 07:42:00 2022

    Hi Daryl!

    That reminds me of the joke where the preacher and his wife had
    this male parrot, and it was a rare breed. But, the parrot would
    always say "Let Us Pray".
    <snip>
    Male: "Let Us Pray".
    Female: "Let's Neck!!".
    Male: "My prayers have been answered!!" <G>

    Now to pray for a headache remedy!


    And you thought popping buttons off your shirt was bad!
    At least the button on the pants didn't pop, and the britches
    fell. Because without the undergarments, it would've been "full
    moon rising" (never mind "Bad Moon Rising" by Credence Clearwater
    Revival <G>). I knew you needed that visual at this hour <g,d,r>.

    Especially here it's just after breakfast!


    Let me guess: you use your eye teeth to watch your food?!
    Got to make sure it doesn't escape off the silverware. <G>

    I eat my peas with honey,
    I've done it all my life.
    It makes the peas taste funny
    But it keeps them on the knife!



    But now Santa is being naughty for not sharing!
    That's why all the Grandmas have commandeered reindeer to run
    over all the elves!! <G>

    That is not a pretty thought!



    Good news: you won't have a runny nose! Bad news: blow your nose and
    sand come out!
    Better boogers than blood. :P And, there's a graphic on the
    internet with "Booger Nutrition Facts". :P

    Got that. Have also seen where there was a scientific paper of which
    the researchers determined kids' eating of -- umm - their nasal
    discharge provided a boost to their immune systems. (I'm wondering
    what's the difference to just swallowing it?)


    As for the dry corneas, maybe do what my optometrist has suggested:
    'deep blinks'. Blink for about a half-second and mid-blink (when lids closed fully) squeeze the lid muscles together. This should help
    produce a tear or two and help force the liquid into the eye membrane.
    Well, when they start bothering me, then it's time to get away
    from the computer...which means I'm going back to bed after I
    finish this packet.

    Probably would be even better to stop and take a break before your
    notice. Maybe get one of those timer utilites where it overlays your
    screen with a reminder to take a break.


    Last I checked the US was about 80% of the Candian. ...Yup: US$1 is CN$1.36. As for the alternative to the RPi, I considered but at this point I want to keep things simple so everything is pretty much the
    same and interchangeable. Plus the prices are still higher than I
    like, especially when I have a couple of spare units.
    That's the least of my worries right now. I am getting a better
    Medicare HMO plan after the first of the year...

    I think the Medicare Supplement I currently have (for 2022) would have
    gone up a few dollars except my financial advisor found a better plan
    and so I'll be saving around $35 a month.

    saving on
    identity theft protection (saving $60 a year),

    You're going to hate me: maybe ten or more years ago my Credit Union
    offered an ID Plan for $1 a month! Definitely keeping my payments on
    that one!

    and on visits to
    medical specialists (saving $25 per visit). There are also other "benefits" with it.

    I'm not sure on the medical specialists one. Medicare has a deductible
    and fee schedule - I just verify the amouts and pay. Initially I was
    thinking the $25 was a co-pay even though didn't read that way, so for
    the co-pays topic I don't know: all of a sudden I didn't need to pay a
    co-pay. As for saving $25, works for me!

    However, finances are tighter than a frog's
    butt underwater right now <G>, so I can't go out again until next
    year (Jan. 3).

    You can celebrate the first trash collection of 2023 with me!



    I don't know if I would classify myself as that smart as did a few shall-we-say dumb things but just knew not to do some things.
    Just like the meme where the bear who is needing to fart, is
    asking "Anybody got a lighter??". :P

    I remember someone doing that!


    Yum! A hint of <cut to commercial!!>. ...Theoretically the tank water
    is clean enough for human consumption.
    That may be theoretically true, but in practicality, I say "no
    thanks".

    Uh-huh! I'm thinking if toilet tank water was the last thing available
    I'd drink it after semi-purifying it: boil it and maybe also a few drops
    of bleach. As for the bowl water: no amount of boiling and bleach...!


    'Com on 2025!! <g>
    So, you want to skip 2023 and 2024?? :P

    For you, yes! <g>


    I wouldn't want a emergency services type of job. My thinking process
    is more a super-quick consideration of (most) options and so there is a quarter- or half-second delay before I respond. More than enough to probably further freak-out the person calling about an emergency.
    I admire the folks who can handle that job...I'm not one of
    them.

    Knock on wood I haven't needed them. Have called a few times to report activity that didn't seem right. One was someone cutting through the
    back yard to the front yard and street. For most houses probably not a
    big deal but here one needs to zig-zag between fences and just a
    not-done thing. Neighbours have never done it and I didn't recognize
    this guy. Plus his presentation didn't seem right -- I'm thinking
    'medical emergency' of some sort so I called the Police (911) to check
    on him. Ended up they were looking for him for an incident a few blocks
    from here.


    I'm thinking Marvin the Martian -- two completely different Marvins! That's another job I wouldn't consider; well, multiple: server,
    busperson, cook/chef. Don't like touching dirty plates -- well, transporting is fine, just I need to rinse by hands after.
    The Illidium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator!! <BOOM!>.

    I'm getting a strange mixed mental image of a cartoonish space gun with
    a slow-motion close-up mushroom exploding its spores!


    Right: it hasn't been cold enough long enough to have the pond water freeze to a sufficiently thick depth.
    At this typing (1am CST, Dec. 23, it's down to +5 with a wind
    chill of -18!! Before the cold front passed, it was up to 45, but
    the bottom fell out of the thermometer, and it was snowing an
    hour later.

    We got about 2" of snow two days ago, lowest air temperature I remember
    was -11øF, wind chill of -47øF. Currently (Saturday morning at 7:30)
    it's -1øF, WC -21øF. Good news: supposed to warm up to about 4 or 5
    degrees above!! End of the week supposed to be in the low 40's!!


    The snow was "dry", light, and powdery. But, all the moisture
    on the roads now is a solid sheet of ice. As long as I can keep
    power and internet, I'll be happy.

    Yup! I haven't been out of the house except to get the mail. Too cold
    to shovel plus would just blow back anyway. There are pine needles on
    the snow in the front yard -- the trees are along the fence in the back
    yard!


    Keep it: freeze, break into chunks for traction!
    Or it proves what a crappy driver you are. :P

    So scary I not only make my passengers poop but myself also?!




    And you've better be sleeping Saturday around midnight!!
    If the insomnia kicks in again, I won't be.

    And so Daryl ends up on the Naughty List once again!



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  • From Lee Green@454:1/1 to Barry Martin on Sun Dec 25 08:21:00 2022

    Hi Daryl!

    That reminds me of the joke where the preacher and his wife had
    this male parrot, and it was a rare breed. But, the parrot would
    always say "Let Us Pray".
    <snip>
    Male: "Let Us Pray".
    Female: "Let's Neck!!".
    Male: "My prayers have been answered!!" <G>

    Now to pray for a headache remedy!


    And you thought popping buttons off your shirt was bad!
    At least the button on the pants didn't pop, and the britches
    fell. Because without the undergarments, it would've been "full
    moon rising" (never mind "Bad Moon Rising" by Credence Clearwater Revival <G>). I knew you needed that visual at this hour <g,d,r>.

    Especially here it's just after breakfast!


    Let me guess: you use your eye teeth to watch your food?!
    Got to make sure it doesn't escape off the silverware. <G>

    I eat my peas with honey,
    I've done it all my life.
    It makes the peas taste funny
    But it keeps them on the knife!



    But now Santa is being naughty for not sharing!
    That's why all the Grandmas have commandeered reindeer to run
    over all the elves!! <G>

    That is not a pretty thought!



    Good news: you won't have a runny nose! Bad news: blow your nose and sand come out!
    Better boogers than blood. :P And, there's a graphic on the
    internet with "Booger Nutrition Facts". :P

    Got that. Have also seen where there was a scientific paper of which
    the researchers determined kids' eating of -- umm - their nasal
    discharge provided a boost to their immune systems. (I'm wondering
    what's the difference to just swallowing it?)


    As for the dry corneas, maybe do what my optometrist has suggested: 'deep blinks'. Blink for about a half-second and mid-blink (when lids closed fully) squeeze the lid muscles together. This should help produce a tear or two and help force the liquid into the eye membrane.
    Well, when they start bothering me, then it's time to get away
    from the computer...which means I'm going back to bed after I
    finish this packet.


    What symptoms do you get with dry corneas?
    My eyes sometimes get blurry like I'm looking thru a mirage usually
    starts when looking at bright things like the white screen or tv or
    bright lights I have to put something cold on my eyes like a cold bottle
    of water or soda can and lay down and close my eyes for a bit then it's
    gone until the next time.


    Probably would be even better to stop and take a break before your
    notice. Maybe get one of those timer utilites where it overlays your screen with a reminder to take a break.


    Last I checked the US was about 80% of the Candian. ...Yup: US$1 is CN$1.36. As for the alternative to the RPi, I considered but at this point I want to keep things simple so everything is pretty much the same and interchangeable. Plus the prices are still higher than I like, especially when I have a couple of spare units.
    That's the least of my worries right now. I am getting a better Medicare HMO plan after the first of the year...

    I think the Medicare Supplement I currently have (for 2022) would have
    gone up a few dollars except my financial advisor found a better plan
    and so I'll be saving around $35 a month.

    saving on
    identity theft protection (saving $60 a year),

    You're going to hate me: maybe ten or more years ago my Credit Union offered an ID Plan for $1 a month! Definitely keeping my payments on
    that one!

    and on visits to
    medical specialists (saving $25 per visit). There are also other "benefits" with it.

    I'm not sure on the medical specialists one. Medicare has a deductible
    and fee schedule - I just verify the amouts and pay. Initially I was thinking the $25 was a co-pay even though didn't read that way, so for
    the co-pays topic I don't know: all of a sudden I didn't need to pay a co-pay. As for saving $25, works for me!

    However, finances are tighter than a frog's
    butt underwater right now <G>, so I can't go out again until next
    year (Jan. 3).

    You can celebrate the first trash collection of 2023 with me!



    I don't know if I would classify myself as that smart as did a few shall-we-say dumb things but just knew not to do some things.
    Just like the meme where the bear who is needing to fart, is
    asking "Anybody got a lighter??". :P

    I remember someone doing that!


    Yum! A hint of <cut to commercial!!>. ...Theoretically the tank water is clean enough for human consumption.
    That may be theoretically true, but in practicality, I say "no thanks".

    Uh-huh! I'm thinking if toilet tank water was the last thing available
    I'd drink it after semi-purifying it: boil it and maybe also a few drops
    of bleach. As for the bowl water: no amount of boiling and bleach...!


    'Com on 2025!! <g>
    So, you want to skip 2023 and 2024?? :P

    For you, yes! <g>


    I wouldn't want a emergency services type of job. My thinking process is more a super-quick consideration of (most) options and so there is a quarter- or half-second delay before I respond. More than enough to probably further freak-out the person calling about an emergency.
    I admire the folks who can handle that job...I'm not one of
    them.

    Knock on wood I haven't needed them. Have called a few times to report activity that didn't seem right. One was someone cutting through the
    back yard to the front yard and street. For most houses probably not a
    big deal but here one needs to zig-zag between fences and just a
    not-done thing. Neighbours have never done it and I didn't recognize
    this guy. Plus his presentation didn't seem right -- I'm thinking
    'medical emergency' of some sort so I called the Police (911) to check
    on him. Ended up they were looking for him for an incident a few blocks from here.


    I'm thinking Marvin the Martian -- two completely different Marvins! That's another job I wouldn't consider; well, multiple: server, busperson, cook/chef. Don't like touching dirty plates -- well, transporting is fine, just I need to rinse by hands after.
    The Illidium Pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator!! <BOOM!>.

    I'm getting a strange mixed mental image of a cartoonish space gun with
    a slow-motion close-up mushroom exploding its spores!


    Right: it hasn't been cold enough long enough to have the pond water freeze to a sufficiently thick depth.
    At this typing (1am CST, Dec. 23, it's down to +5 with a wind
    chill of -18!! Before the cold front passed, it was up to 45, but
    the bottom fell out of the thermometer, and it was snowing an
    hour later.

    We got about 2" of snow two days ago, lowest air temperature I remember
    was -11øF, wind chill of -47øF. Currently (Saturday morning at 7:30)
    it's -1øF, WC -21øF. Good news: supposed to warm up to about 4 or 5
    degrees above!! End of the week supposed to be in the low 40's!!


    It's a warm 80ø here in Los Angeles for xmas.
    I just had to let you guys know how nice the weather is.


    The snow was "dry", light, and powdery. But, all the moisture
    on the roads now is a solid sheet of ice. As long as I can keep
    power and internet, I'll be happy.

    Yup! I haven't been out of the house except to get the mail. Too cold
    to shovel plus would just blow back anyway. There are pine needles on
    the snow in the front yard -- the trees are along the fence in the back yard!


    Keep it: freeze, break into chunks for traction!
    Or it proves what a crappy driver you are. :P

    So scary I not only make my passengers poop but myself also?!




    And you've better be sleeping Saturday around midnight!!
    If the insomnia kicks in again, I won't be.

    And so Daryl ends up on the Naughty List once again!



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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Mon Dec 26 06:40:00 2022
    Barry,

    Now to pray for a headache remedy!

    That's like the joke about the guy's wife napping in bed. He wakes
    her up with some aspirin and a glass of water, as she had been "puny"
    a few days earlier. She asked what the pills were for, and her husband
    said "A headache". When she said "I haven't got a headache", he replied
    "That's what I've been waiting to hear". <G>

    Especially here it's just after breakfast!

    Every day is a new chance...to screw things up. <G>

    I eat my peas with honey,
    I've done it all my life.
    It makes the peas taste funny
    But it keeps them on the knife!

    I think of the joke about the difference between prose and poetry.
    Poetry rhymes, but prose does not.

    Little Mary got careless, and fell into a well.
    Tragically, she couldn't swim, and died and went to...

    Well, what do you want?? Prose or Poetry?? <G>

    That is not a pretty thought!

    As the grandmas shouted "Revenge is a dish best served cold!!".

    Got that. Have also seen where there was a scientific paper of which
    the researchers determined kids' eating of -- umm - their nasal
    discharge provided a boost to their immune systems. (I'm wondering
    what's the difference to just swallowing it?)

    I saw another story where that was snot the case, health wise...and it
    was nothing to sneeze at. :P

    Probably would be even better to stop and take a break before your
    notice. Maybe get one of those timer utilites where it overlays your screen with a reminder to take a break.

    There was an ANSI TSR several years ago, that was harmless, but after
    a set number of keystrokes, it would do one of the following!!

    1) Flash a sign screaming "GET BACK TO WORK!!"
    2) Have an ANSI of a clown flicking his tongue at you.
    3) Act like the computer was out of order, but all you would need to
    do is hit ANY key to restore things. I still haven't found that one,
    or the control key, the day, I lost CTRL. <G>

    I think the Medicare Supplement I currently have (for 2022) would have gone up a few dollars except my financial advisor found a better plan
    and so I'll be saving around $35 a month.

    When you have to live on the cheap, you do whatever you can. I can
    only splurge on ordering out once a month now.

    You're going to hate me: maybe ten or more years ago my Credit Union offered an ID Plan for $1 a month! Definitely keeping my payments on
    that one!

    Well, after going through Chapter 13 Bankruptcy in 2009, I no longer
    have a credit card...just a bank debit card.

    I'm not sure on the medical specialists one. Medicare has a deductible and fee schedule - I just verify the amouts and pay. Initially I was thinking the $25 was a co-pay even though didn't read that way, so for
    the co-pays topic I don't know: all of a sudden I didn't need to pay a co-pay. As for saving $25, works for me!

    As noted, wherever you can save, works.

    You can celebrate the first trash collection of 2023 with me!

    That reminds me...I need to take the garbage out, although none of it
    was from Christmas stuff. There was nothing Christmas related here...
    no decorations, music, lights, trees, gifts, etc.

    I remember someone doing that!

    They probably got severe burns on their backside.

    Uh-huh! I'm thinking if toilet tank water was the last thing available I'd drink it after semi-purifying it: boil it and maybe also a few
    drops of bleach. As for the bowl water: no amount of boiling and bleach...!

    I saw a meme where the dog was screaming "Dude!! That's My Water Bowl!!"

    So, you want to skip 2023 and 2024?? :P

    For you, yes! <g>

    No, I'm not transferring my wealth the next 2 years to you. Besides, a
    penny is a dollar with all the taxes taken out.

    on him. Ended up they were looking for him for an incident a few
    blocks from here.

    At least they got their man.

    I'm getting a strange mixed mental image of a cartoonish space gun with
    a slow-motion close-up mushroom exploding its spores!

    Never mind Duck Dodgers in the 24 and a half century!!

    We got about 2" of snow two days ago, lowest air temperature I remember was -11øF, wind chill of -47øF. Currently (Saturday morning at 7:30)
    it's -1øF, WC -21øF. Good news: supposed to warm up to about 4 or 5 degrees above!! End of the week supposed to be in the low 40's!!

    They are talking thunderstorms (some severe), with flooding rain the
    latter part of this week...and early next week could have a significant
    area of severe weather, according to some long range progs I've seen.

    Yup! I haven't been out of the house except to get the mail. Too cold
    to shovel plus would just blow back anyway. There are pine needles on
    the snow in the front yard -- the trees are along the fence in the back yard!

    I lost power for 30 seconds the other morning, but left the faucets
    dripping to ensure the pipes wouldn't freeze. A slightly higher water
    bill is a lot cheaper than calling a plumber.

    So scary I not only make my passengers poop but myself also?!

    I'm speeding because I have to go poop. :P

    And so Daryl ends up on the Naughty List once again!

    I never left it...that's why I'm Sysloppious. <G>

    Daryl

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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Lee Green on Mon Dec 26 06:50:00 2022
    Lee,

    What symptoms do you get with dry corneas?

    They start burning, and I feel like there's something in the eye besides
    the eyeball, like a speck of dirt.

    Plus, the vision would blur...and especially at night, or on a cloudy
    day, there'd be haloes around the car lights and streetlights.

    While I no longer drive, and no longer have a car, when the eyes start
    giving me fits, it's time to get away from the computer, and lay down for awhile...and that's starting to happen even now.

    Daryl

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Lee Green on Mon Dec 26 07:29:00 2022

    Hi Lee!

    What symptoms do you get with dry corneas?

    Generally starts with an 'uncomfortableness' of the eye, possible redness
    of the white of the eye (could be just the veins so a spidery look) or a pinkish hue. The cornea itself gets its oxygen directly from the air.
    Blinking helps to keep the surface of the eye moist by spreading tears.


    My eyes sometimes get blurry like I'm looking thru a mirage
    usually starts when looking at bright things like the white
    screen or tv or bright lights I have to put something cold on my
    eyes like a cold bottle of water or soda can and lay down and
    close my eyes for a bit then it's gone until the next time.

    I've experienced the eventual blurryness when looking at something in
    close range such as paperwork, book, monitor, for a longer time and my
    contact lenses needed to be updated (one or both. Far vision (TV
    viewing, etc.) was fine.

    As for the bright light issue I remember having to turn down the
    brightness and possibly adjust the contrast with a new monitor: default
    setting is too bright for me. Another option might be to alter the
    Colour Temperature mode. This is the one that sets the overall hue/tone
    of the screen: reddish, blueish, think there's a third one. In light
    bulbs this is the equivalent of Warm White, Bright White, etc.

    Might be time for a real eye exam, and now you might have additional
    details to discuss. Personally I have had not the best experience with
    the fast-in-and-out type of optometrist.

    Just thought of something else to try: sunglasses! You stated the
    brightness bothers you, and a good pair of lightly tinted sunglasses
    might help. I'm thinking polarized lenses, or at minimum a good-quality
    lens: don't want to induce a distortion! Too dark will probably be a
    problem looking at the monitor; those "rose coloured glasses" might be
    helpful as they'd soften the light and maybe block a bothersome range.





    Right: it hasn't been cold enough long enough to have the pond water freeze to a sufficiently thick depth.
    At this typing (1am CST, Dec. 23, it's down to +5 with a wind
    chill of -18!! Before the cold front passed, it was up to 45, but
    the bottom fell out of the thermometer, and it was snowing an
    hour later.
    We got about 2" of snow two days ago, lowest air temperature I remember
    was -11øF, wind chill of -47øF. Currently (Saturday morning at 7:30)
    it's -1øF, WC -21øF. Good news: supposed to warm up to about 4 or 5 degrees above!! End of the week supposed to be in the low 40's!!
    It's a warm 80ø here in Los Angeles for xmas.
    I just had to let you guys know how nice the weather is.

    Pbbbtttt!!! To my mind cold temperature (though let's not be
    ridiculous!) and a little snow on the ground (not over-achieving like
    Buffalo NY!) is the right thing for the Christmas season. In college I
    had friends from Australia and New Zealand and their seasons are
    reversed to here. Just odd for swimsuits in December and parkas in
    July.



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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Tue Dec 27 08:15:00 2022

    Hi Daryl!

    Now to pray for a headache remedy!
    That's like the joke about the guy's wife napping in bed. He
    wakes her up with some aspirin and a glass of water, as she had
    been "puny" a few days earlier. She asked what the pills were
    for, and her husband said "A headache". When she said "I haven't
    got a headache", he replied "That's what I've been waiting to
    hear". <G>

    Sneaky!


    Especially here it's just after breakfast!
    Every day is a new chance...to screw things up. <G>

    Well if we take a carpeter's screw and screw it clockwise we're turning
    into the wood so holding things together. And clockwise is loosenging,
    which sometimes is a bad thing and sometimes a good thing, depending on
    the desired outcome. ...And now to continue to attept to achieve
    Nirvana through comtemplations of my navel.



    I eat my peas with honey,
    I've done it all my life.
    It makes the peas taste funny
    But it keeps them on the knife!
    I think of the joke about the difference between prose and
    poetry. Poetry rhymes, but prose does not.
    Little Mary got careless, and fell into a well.
    Tragically, she couldn't swim, and died and went to...
    Well, what do you want?? Prose or Poetry?? <G>

    I was thinking the finish was "smell" because she was now a rotting
    corpse. (Got out of that one!)



    Got that. Have also seen where there was a scientific paper of which
    the researchers determined kids' eating of -- umm - their nasal
    discharge provided a boost to their immune systems. (I'm wondering
    what's the difference to just swallowing it?)
    I saw another story where that was snot the case, health
    wise...and it was nothing to sneeze at. :P

    This should be submitted to the National Institute of Health!!



    Probably would be even better to stop and take a break before your
    notice. Maybe get one of those timer utilites where it overlays your screen with a reminder to take a break.
    There was an ANSI TSR several years ago, that was harmless, but
    after a set number of keystrokes, it would do one of the
    following!!

    1) Flash a sign screaming "GET BACK TO WORK!!"
    2) Have an ANSI of a clown flicking his tongue at you.
    3) Act like the computer was out of order, but all you would need
    to do is hit ANY key to restore things. I still haven't found
    that one, or the control key, the day, I lost CTRL. <G>

    You have to think ALTernately: SHIFT to a different mindset!



    I think the Medicare Supplement I currently have (for 2022) would have gone up a few dollars except my financial advisor found a better plan
    and so I'll be saving around $35 a month.
    When you have to live on the cheap, you do whatever you can. I
    can only splurge on ordering out once a month now.

    I'm sort of so-so on eating out this year: food hasn't been as good as
    it should have been, and not because the kitchen was swamped. Example:
    went to breakfast with friends: toast was presented properly: two
    slices, diagonally cut, butter between the two slices. Mine was
    correct, the other two's butter was excessive: too much to melt and
    actually didn't look like butter nor margerine -- we weren't really sure
    what it was. Otherwise the meal was good but nothing spectacular albeit expensive. Oh well.



    You're going to hate me: maybe ten or more years ago my Credit Union offered an ID Plan for $1 a month! Definitely keeping my payments on
    that one!
    Well, after going through Chapter 13 Bankruptcy in 2009, I no
    longer have a credit card...just a bank debit card.

    I think my CU is offering 'points' with their debit card -- not sure as
    I don't use it; credit card is better for me. I find writing down each transaction -- use pen onto ledger -- keeps the "it's cash!" concept up
    in front of my mind. The bigger the total becomes means the more money
    I'll have to take from my bank accounts to pay it back. For some people
    that method works.

    I also drive people 'nuts' by not having separate "Christmas Money".
    Well, back when got an envelope with money in it at Christmas.... To me
    it's all 'money' and I've rarely gone on a shopping spree just because I
    was given money. Save it for later when I do want something.


    I'm not sure on the medical specialists one. Medicare has a deductible and fee schedule - I just verify the amounts and pay. Initially I was thinking the $25 was a co-pay even though didn't read that way, so for
    the co-pays topic I don't know: all of a sudden I didn't need to pay a co-pay. As for saving $25, works for me!
    As noted, wherever you can save, works.

    And sometimes not taking the savings is the better option. Needed full-coverage insurance on my car when I first bought it; after it was
    paid to a certain point I could drop down to whatever the partial-
    coverage level is called. The difference between the two rates was only
    $5-6 dollars a month. Hmm: get fully paid for a replacement or get paid
    ~$1000 'cause the car is so old and have saved $60-70 a year....?



    You can celebrate the first trash collection of 2023 with me!
    That reminds me...I need to take the garbage out, although none
    of it was from Christmas stuff. There was nothing Christmas
    related here... no decorations, music, lights, trees, gifts, etc.

    But that makes clean-up so much easier!



    Uh-huh! I'm thinking if toilet tank water was the last thing available I'd drink it after semi-purifying it: boil it and maybe also a few
    drops of bleach. As for the bowl water: no amount of boiling and bleach...!
    I saw a meme where the dog was screaming "Dude!! That's My
    Water Bowl!!"

    I saw one where the man is carrying out the Christmas Tree and the dog
    is carring out the toilet.



    So, you want to skip 2023 and 2024?? :P
    For you, yes! <g>
    No, I'm not transferring my wealth the next 2 years to you.
    Besides, a penny is a dollar with all the taxes taken out.

    <slurpy suction sound effect>



    on him. Ended up they were looking for him for an incident a few
    blocks from here.
    At least they got their man.

    Yup! Actually it was kind of funny: after the call I was looking out
    the window onto the street and a silent police car roars past towards
    where I said the guy was running. ("Silent": lights flashing but no
    siren.)



    We got about 2" of snow two days ago, lowest air temperature I remember was -11øF, wind chill of -47øF. Currently (Saturday morning at 7:30)
    it's -1øF, WC -21øF. Good news: supposed to warm up to about 4 or 5 degrees above!! End of the week supposed to be in the low 40's!!
    They are talking thunderstorms (some severe), with flooding
    rain the latter part of this week...and early next week could
    have a significant area of severe weather, according to some long
    range progs I've seen.

    Was 2ø when I woke up this morning; forecast is for mid-40's on Friday
    and Saturday. Meteorologist commented plus pointing to a graphic close
    to a 100ø difference between the -40 and -50ø wind chills a few days
    ago. (A hare flawed because one temperature is wind chill and the other
    is not but still is a drastic difference in only a few days.)


    Yup! I haven't been out of the house except to get the mail. Too cold
    to shovel plus would just blow back anyway. There are pine needles on
    the snow in the front yard -- the trees are along the fence in the back yard!
    I lost power for 30 seconds the other morning, but left the
    faucets dripping to ensure the pipes wouldn't freeze. A slightly
    higher water bill is a lot cheaper than calling a plumber.

    Definitely!! I have a small digital thermometer with a several foot
    probe stuck under the bezel/cap thingie to monitor the temperature under
    the floor where the hot water comes through (it's the colder of the two
    as in different joist spaces). Temperature displays too close to 32ø,
    start the dripping! (Both.)



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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Tue Dec 27 08:15:00 2022


    DARYL STOUT wrote to LEE GREEN <=-

    What symptoms do you get with dry corneas?

    Plus, the vision would blur...and especially at night, or on a
    cloudy day, there'd be haloes around the car lights and
    streetlights.

    Which could also be caused by a cataract. (My optometrist had been
    monitoring mine for years; the one in the left eye finally got to the
    point it was covered by insurance and sent me to a specialist for the
    surgery. I kidded with my regular eye doctor specialization was going
    too far: I have a doctor just for my left eye and adifferent doctor for
    my right eye!)



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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Thu Dec 29 06:53:00 2022
    Barry,

    Which could also be caused by a cataract. (My optometrist had been monitoring mine for years; the one in the left eye finally got to the point it was covered by insurance and sent me to a specialist for the surgery. I kidded with my regular eye doctor specialization was going
    too far: I have a doctor just for my left eye and adifferent doctor for
    my right eye!)

    That's unlikely...I had cataracts removed over 10 years ago, and Yag
    Laser surgery shortly after the left eye...it was also recently done on
    the right eye. I still have a little astigmatism, but the main problems
    now are "suspect glaucoma" and the "dry corneas".

    Daryl

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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Thu Dec 29 06:56:00 2022
    Barry,

    Sneaky!

    That's what the musical instruments shop proprietor on an episode of
    The Flintstones said, when Fred was wanting to buy Wilma a piano for
    their anniversary. When Fred asked when he wanted it delivered, he was
    told "It's your piano...when do you want it??". Fred said "Tonight, at midnight, after my wife's asleep"...and the proprietor (Gildersleeve)
    said "Oooo....aren't we sneaky??". Fred had won $50 at the Water Buffalo
    Lodge, but it turns out he could only afford a piano stool at that price.
    So, he ended up buying a hot (stolen) piano from a thug named 88 Fingers
    Louie.

    Fred ended up running a red light on the piano that kept rolling, and
    as he stood before the sargeant before he was sentenced to jail, the
    sargeant asked if he had any last words...the exchange went like this:

    Fred: "All I wanted to do was surprise my wife on our wedding anniversary." Sarge: "A likely story".

    Suddenly, the sargeant shakes his head wildly, and is in a panic!!

    Sarge: "Wedding Anniversary??!! Jumping Dinosaurs!! Today's me own wedding anniversary!! Officer??"

    Officer: "Yes, Sarge??"

    Sarge: "Show this criminal that the department has a heart, and give him
    a hand with his anniversary, while I run out and buy something for me own little bride."

    Then, the sargeant laments "How could I forget??!! Especially when it
    comes on trash day!!". The look of astonishment on Fred's face was just priceless. <G>

    Well if we take a carpeter's screw and screw it clockwise we're turning into the wood so holding things together. And clockwise is loosenging, which sometimes is a bad thing and sometimes a good thing, depending on the desired outcome. ...And now to continue to attept to achieve
    Nirvana through comtemplations of my navel.

    Leftie loosey, righty tightey. <G>

    Or like Foster Brooks said "I was part of the naval air force...tried to force air theough my navel". I thought that was a built in lint filter to
    get stuff to make a sweater with. Unfortunately, that only works if you're
    an "innie". <G>

    I was thinking the finish was "smell" because she was now a rotting corpse. (Got out of that one!)

    Better than:

    Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus.
    Men like cars. Women like....

    Well, what do you want?? Prose Or Poetry?? <bseg>

    This should be submitted to the National Institute of Health!!

    I don't care to have things shoved up my orifices, especially when it
    relates to Covid-19 checks. :P

    You have to think ALTernately: SHIFT to a different mindset!

    Just key in on the right topic at the appropriate time...see the tagline below. <G>

    I'm sort of so-so on eating out this year: food hasn't been as good as
    it should have been, and not because the kitchen was swamped. Example: went to breakfast with friends: toast was presented properly: two
    slices, diagonally cut, butter between the two slices. Mine was
    correct, the other two's butter was excessive: too much to melt and actually didn't look like butter nor margerine -- we weren't really
    sure what it was. Otherwise the meal was good but nothing spectacular albeit expensive. Oh well.

    It is rare that I eat out anymore. More often than not, I order delivery
    from Grubhub from an area restaurant, or I get 25 tenders from an area Slim Chickens...and use ketchup for dipping sauce. I can get 4 meals out of that.

    I think my CU is offering 'points' with their debit card -- not sure as
    I don't use it; credit card is better for me. I find writing down each transaction -- use pen onto ledger -- keeps the "it's cash!" concept up
    in front of my mind. The bigger the total becomes means the more money I'll have to take from my bank accounts to pay it back. For some
    people that method works.

    There is so much credit card debt right now, it's not funny. Thankfully,
    I don't have to worry about that anymore. But, I'm only one step away from being rich...all I need is money. <G>

    I also drive people 'nuts' by not having separate "Christmas Money".
    Well, back when got an envelope with money in it at Christmas.... To
    me it's all 'money' and I've rarely gone on a shopping spree just
    because I was given money. Save it for later when I do want something.

    I have some cash on me, which is rare...I did get a little bit for the Christmas holiday, but I'll use it if I get a chance to eat out...which
    again, is rare.

    And sometimes not taking the savings is the better option. Needed full-coverage insurance on my car when I first bought it; after it was paid to a certain point I could drop down to whatever the partial- coverage level is called. The difference between the two rates was
    only $5-6 dollars a month. Hmm: get fully paid for a replacement or
    get paid ~$1000 'cause the car is so old and have saved $60-70 a
    year....?

    You have to look at things in the short term, and in the long run. With
    not having a car (or driving) anymore, I don't have to worry about things
    like gasoline, repairs, insurance, property taxes, license tags, etc. It
    does suck being stuck at home for all but 2 days a month (for a run via
    Lyft to the Post Office Box), but I have no choice. The blurred vision
    without warning made it too dangerous to drive.

    But that makes clean-up so much easier!

    That is true. Plus, if you have a bunch of boxes in the trash pile, thugs walking by may see that as a signal that you have wealth to be robbed.

    I saw one where the man is carrying out the Christmas Tree and the dog
    is carring out the toilet.

    That's the one..."two can play at that game!!".

    <slurpy suction sound effect>

    Suck the last of the beverage through the straw!!

    Yup! Actually it was kind of funny: after the call I was looking out
    the window onto the street and a silent police car roars past towards where I said the guy was running. ("Silent": lights flashing but no siren.)

    I like it when the K-9 gets the criminal.

    Was 2ø when I woke up this morning; forecast is for mid-40's on Friday
    and Saturday. Meteorologist commented plus pointing to a graphic close
    to a 100ø difference between the -40 and -50ø wind chills a few days
    ago. (A hare flawed because one temperature is wind chill and the
    other is not but still is a drastic difference in only a few days.)

    It'll be in the 60s to near 70 here through at least next Tuesday, with
    a threat of significant severe weather next Monday...unfortunately, it
    looks like an early start to the year's tornado season.

    Definitely!! I have a small digital thermometer with a several foot
    probe stuck under the bezel/cap thingie to monitor the temperature
    under the floor where the hot water comes through (it's the colder of
    the two as in different joist spaces). Temperature displays too close
    to 32ø, start the dripping! (Both.)

    If you have quite a bit of nocturia overnight, you can keep the water
    going with the potty runs...even though being awakened isn't your
    pee-rogative. <G>

    Daryl

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Sat Dec 31 08:17:00 2022


    Which could also be caused by a cataract. (My optometrist had been monitoring mine for years; the one in the left eye finally got to the point it was covered by insurance and sent me to a specialist for the surgery. I kidded with my regular eye doctor specialization was going
    too far: I have a doctor just for my left eye and adifferent doctor for
    my right eye!)

    That's unlikely...I had cataracts removed over 10 years ago,
    and Yag Laser surgery shortly after the left eye...it was also
    recently done on the right eye. I still have a little
    astigmatism, but the main problems now are "suspect glaucoma" and
    the "dry corneas".

    As quoted correct; I thought I was referring to blurryness of vision.




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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Sat Dec 31 08:17:00 2022

    Hi Daryl!

    Sneaky!
    That's what the musical instruments shop proprietor on an
    episode of The Flintstones said, when Fred was wanting to buy
    Wilma a piano for their anniversary. When Fred asked when he

    <snip>

    I super-vaguely remember that: I haven't watched The Flintstones -- uh
    -- since the dinosaur ages.



    Well if we take a carpeter's screw and screw it clockwise we're turning into the wood so holding things together. And clockwise is loosenging, which sometimes is a bad thing and sometimes a good thing, depending on the desired outcome. ...And now to continue to attept to achieve
    Nirvana through comtemplations of my navel.
    Leftie loosey, righty tightey. <G>

    Oh-oh: you unscrewed my naval and my rump fell off!



    Or like Foster Brooks said "I was part of the naval air
    force...tried to force air theough my navel". I thought that was
    a built in lint filter to get stuff to make a sweater with.
    Unfortunately, that only works if you're an "innie". <G>

    Just be thankful it was from there and not elsewhere!




    I don't care to have things shoved up my orifices, especially
    when it relates to Covid-19 checks. :P

    So far <knock on wood> I haven't needed to be checked, though if not
    feeling well and someone sticking an overgrown Q-Tip up my nose just may trigger a sneezing bout.



    You have to think ALTernately: SHIFT to a different mindset!
    Just key in on the right topic at the appropriate time...see
    the tagline below. <G>
    DS> ... Of course I'm on topic!! What Conference is this??!!

    I'm not sure: I don't see the conference when I'm in Reply Mode.


    I'm sort of so-so on eating out this year: food hasn't been as good as
    it should have been, and not because the kitchen was swamped. Example: went to breakfast with friends: toast was presented properly: two
    slices, diagonally cut, butter between the two slices. Mine was
    correct, the other two's butter was excessive: too much to melt and actually didn't look like butter nor margerine -- we weren't really
    sure what it was. Otherwise the meal was good but nothing spectacular albeit expensive. Oh well.
    It is rare that I eat out anymore. More often than not, I order
    delivery from Grubhub from an area restaurant, or I get 25
    tenders from an area Slim Chickens...and use ketchup for dipping
    sauce. I can get 4 meals out of that.

    (I misread that as Slime Chickens! -- "The chicken that comes with it's
    own sauce!" <gg>) I had a boss years ago who always ate out: he said it
    was cheaper to eat out and leave a tip than cook at home. He didn't
    enumerate but was based on utilities (mainly gas but also some
    electricity for blenders, etc.), wages to cook, get the food (shopping),
    etc., etc.


    I think my CU is offering 'points' with their debit card -- not sure as
    I don't use it; credit card is better for me. I find writing down each transaction -- use pen onto ledger -- keeps the "it's cash!" concept up
    in front of my mind. The bigger the total becomes means the more money I'll have to take from my bank accounts to pay it back. For some
    people that method works.
    There is so much credit card debt right now, it's not funny.
    Thankfully, I don't have to worry about that anymore. But, I'm
    only one step away from being rich...all I need is money. <G>

    Find a penny
    Pick it up.
    Now go home
    And sew the rip in your butt!


    I was reading an artcile a while back where the 'poor' spend more money
    on the same item that the 'rich'. (The terms are relative.) If someone
    has to buy an item and pay cash they are spending less for that item
    than someone who has to finance, IOW pay interest (money to borrow
    money).



    I also drive people 'nuts' by not having separate "Christmas Money".
    Well, back when got an envelope with money in it at Christmas.... To
    me it's all 'money' and I've rarely gone on a shopping spree just
    because I was given money. Save it for later when I do want something.
    I have some cash on me, which is rare...I did get a little bit
    for the Christmas holiday, but I'll use it if I get a chance to
    eat out...which again, is rare.

    Works for me! My thinking is those little, infrequent splurges are good
    for the soul. I'd not go overboard in either direction: not going to
    restrict myself to go to a super-cheap place with mediocre food just to
    save money when eating out on Christmas Money. OTOH definately not
    going to a Michelin restaurant and splurge all my fun money. OTOH if I
    had _always_ wanted to go to that Michelin money and now could afford it
    I'd go. Lots of variables.


    And sometimes not taking the savings is the better option. Needed full-coverage insurance on my car when I first bought it; after it was paid to a certain point I could drop down to whatever the partial- coverage level is called. The difference between the two rates was
    only $5-6 dollars a month. Hmm: get fully paid for a replacement or
    get paid ~$1000 'cause the car is so old and have saved $60-70 a
    year....?
    You have to look at things in the short term, and in the long
    run. With not having a car (or driving) anymore, I don't have to
    worry about things like gasoline, repairs, insurance, property
    taxes, license tags, etc. It does suck being stuck at home for
    all but 2 days a month (for a run via Lyft to the Post Office
    Box), but I have no choice. The blurred vision without warning
    made it too dangerous to drive.

    Right. Again, a lot of variables. On one hand a lot of inconvenience
    not having a car but then it's better than laying around in a long
    narrow box!


    But that makes clean-up so much easier!
    That is true. Plus, if you have a bunch of boxes in the trash
    pile, thugs walking by may see that as a signal that you have
    wealth to be robbed.

    Yes. Best to cut up and/or turn inside-out to hide the contents.




    Yup! Actually it was kind of funny: after the call I was looking out
    the window onto the street and a silent police car roars past towards where I said the guy was running. ("Silent": lights flashing but no siren.)
    I like it when the K-9 gets the criminal.

    Some of the 'cop shows' will show the police dog capturing the criminal.
    Almost ROTFL-funny when the big tough I-can-outsmart-the-cops guy starts whimpering when the dog has captured him.



    Was 2ø when I woke up this morning; forecast is for mid-40's on Friday
    and Saturday. Meteorologist commented plus pointing to a graphic close
    to a 100ø difference between the -40 and -50ø wind chills a few days
    ago. (A hare flawed because one temperature is wind chill and the
    other is not but still is a drastic difference in only a few days.)
    It'll be in the 60s to near 70 here through at least next
    Tuesday, with a threat of significant severe weather next Monday...unfortunately, it looks like an early start to the
    year's tornado season.

    Locally we broke the record high for the date: think it was 67ø. So
    from the official wind chill of -40ø we had over a 100ø difference. And
    then the next day dropped to almost freezing, so about a forty degree difference in 24 hours.



    Definitely!! I have a small digital thermometer with a several foot
    probe stuck under the bezel/cap thingie to monitor the temperature
    under the floor where the hot water comes through (it's the colder of
    the two as in different joist spaces). Temperature displays too close
    to 32ø, start the dripping! (Both.)
    If you have quite a bit of nocturia overnight, you can keep the
    water going with the potty runs...even though being awakened
    isn't your pee-rogative. <G>

    Euwwww!! The good news is usually only once a night. Actually had
    rigged up a little device which I was considering to use to keep the
    toilet water trickling -- ended up not needing it. "Invention" was a
    length of thin wire (#30) which one end would go under the flapper and
    into the passage to the bowl. Just enough to keep the flapper ajar
    slightly. Other end of the wire went through a small hole in a food
    container (happened to be a 16 oz sour cream) and a knot of wire so
    wouldn't get pulled through. LIS don't know if it would work as ended
    up not needing it.


    ... Of course I'm on topic!! What Conference is this??!!

    Seems to be the Miscellania Conference!


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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Mon Jan 2 06:23:00 2023
    Barry,

    As quoted correct; I thought I was referring to blurryness of vision.

    You may have been. At times, even with the eye drops, the eyes will
    start burning, stinging, and at times, blurring. That means it's time
    to get away from the computer, put drops in the eyes, and go lie down
    for awhile.

    Daryl

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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Mon Jan 2 06:24:00 2023
    Barry,

    I super-vaguely remember that: I haven't watched The Flintstones -- uh
    -- since the dinosaur ages.

    So, you're older than dirt?? <g,d,r>

    Oh-oh: you unscrewed my naval and my rump fell off!

    LOL!! I'll bet some parents wish that was a switch to adjust their
    child's energy level.

    Just be thankful it was from there and not elsewhere!

    Belly Up To The Bar. <G>

    So far <knock on wood> I haven't needed to be checked, though if not feeling well and someone sticking an overgrown Q-Tip up my nose just
    may trigger a sneezing bout.

    If I do that, I may also do it out of both sides of my midsection <TMI>.

    I'm not sure: I don't see the conference when I'm in Reply Mode.

    You have a cheap QWK Reader then. <G>

    (I misread that as Slime Chickens! -- "The chicken that comes with it's own sauce!" <gg>) I had a boss years ago who always ate out: he said
    it was cheaper to eat out and leave a tip than cook at home. He didn't enumerate but was based on utilities (mainly gas but also some
    electricity for blenders, etc.), wages to cook, get the food
    (shopping), etc., etc.

    I heard of a guy who printed up business cards, protesting about a certain restaurant's policy of adding on a 20% gratituity, whether you were with a large group of not...and that was before you got your food!!

    On the card, it noted "Your tips are on the back -- Have A Nice Day".

    The tips were:

    1. Plant your corn early.
    2. Keep your powder dry.
    3. Always have clean underwear on.


    Find a penny
    Pick it up.
    Now go home
    And sew the rip in your butt!

    I keep hearing they are going to do away with pennies, and round everything up to either a 5 or 0 in the last digit of the cents column.

    I was reading an artcile a while back where the 'poor' spend more money
    on the same item that the 'rich'. (The terms are relative.) If
    someone has to buy an item and pay cash they are spending less for that item than someone who has to finance, IOW pay interest (money to borrow money).

    That's how I treat the debit card. The purchase is made right then, and
    there are no interest fees.

    Works for me! My thinking is those little, infrequent splurges are
    good for the soul. I'd not go overboard in either direction: not going
    to restrict myself to go to a super-cheap place with mediocre food just
    to save money when eating out on Christmas Money. OTOH definately not going to a Michelin restaurant and splurge all my fun money. OTOH if I had _always_ wanted to go to that Michelin money and now could afford
    it I'd go. Lots of variables.

    My brother will have a cow if he has to stay home. He hates cooking, he
    has no hobbies (or interest in any of mine), he apparently gets more money
    than I do on disability, but he can easily spend over $50 a day at a local restaurant on food and drink (usually beer). With what he spends in 4 days, that gets me groceries to last the entire month.

    Right. Again, a lot of variables. On one hand a lot of inconvenience
    not having a car but then it's better than laying around in a long
    narrow box!

    And, the car repairs can be several thousand dollars.

    Yes. Best to cut up and/or turn inside-out to hide the contents.

    I still like the one with the porch pirates...in a box, put a bunch of
    used kitty litter, toilet paper, and diapers. There is a series of videos
    on YouTube (search for Glitter Bomb) which proves "revenge is a dish best served cold".

    Some of the 'cop shows' will show the police dog capturing the
    criminal. Almost ROTFL-funny when the big tough I-can-outsmart-the-cops guy starts whimpering when the dog has captured him.

    Or starts screaming for them to make the dog stop biting him.

    Locally we broke the record high for the date: think it was 67ø. So
    from the official wind chill of -40ø we had over a 100ø difference.
    And then the next day dropped to almost freezing, so about a forty
    degree difference in 24 hours.

    I saw portions of Iowa are under either Winter Storm Warnings or Ice
    Storm Warnings this Monday morning. Arkansas is at the other end of the spectrum, with Flood Watches in effect now, and Tornado Watches likely
    by midday.

    Euwwww!! The good news is usually only once a night. Actually had
    rigged up a little device which I was considering to use to keep the toilet water trickling -- ended up not needing it. "Invention" was a length of thin wire (#30) which one end would go under the flapper and into the passage to the bowl. Just enough to keep the flapper ajar slightly. Other end of the wire went through a small hole in a food container (happened to be a 16 oz sour cream) and a knot of wire so wouldn't get pulled through. LIS don't know if it would work as ended
    up not needing it.

    At least we won't have to worry about bitter arctic air like we had here before Christmas for a bit...although some long range progs show it turning colder again by mid-January. Yet, with temperatures in the 70s in January
    for us, that's prime tornado weather.

    Seems to be the Miscellania Conference!

    It looks that way.

    Daryl

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Wed Jan 4 08:06:00 2023

    Hi Daryl!

    As quoted correct; I thought I was referring to blurryness of vision.
    You may have been. At times, even with the eye drops, the eyes
    will start burning, stinging, and at times, blurring. That means
    it's time to get away from the computer, put drops in the eyes,
    and go lie down for awhile.

    Better would not yourself get to that point!



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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Wed Jan 4 08:06:00 2023

    Hi Daryl!

    I super-vaguely remember that: I haven't watched The Flintstones -- uh
    -- since the dinosaur ages.
    So, you're older than dirt?? <g,d,r>

    Where do you think 'dirt' came from?!



    Oh-oh: you unscrewed my naval and my rump fell off!
    LOL!! I'll bet some parents wish that was a switch to adjust
    their child's energy level.

    Some have used a switch -- that stick.


    Just be thankful it was from there and not elsewhere!
    Belly Up To The Bar. <G>

    Feet over there in the corner....


    So far <knock on wood> I haven't needed to be checked, though if not feeling well and someone sticking an overgrown Q-Tip up my nose just
    may trigger a sneezing bout.
    If I do that, I may also do it out of both sides of my
    midsection <TMI>.

    So we're back to belly up to the bar, feet in the corner from that
    explosion?!


    I'm not sure: I don't see the conference when I'm in Reply Mode.
    You have a cheap QWK Reader then. <G>

    Actually ended up free: I sent a check (that's how old it is!!) to
    register and it was returned, I think by the family of the developer and
    a note which between the lines indicated he may have died.


    (I misread that as Slime Chickens! -- "The chicken that comes with it's own sauce!" <gg>) I had a boss years ago who always ate out: he said
    it was cheaper to eat out and leave a tip than cook at home. He didn't enumerate but was based on utilities (mainly gas but also some
    electricity for blenders, etc.), wages to cook, get the food
    (shopping), etc., etc.
    I heard of a guy who printed up business cards, protesting
    about a certain restaurant's policy of adding on a 20%
    gratituity, whether you were with a large group of not...and that
    was before you got your food!!
    On the card, it noted "Your tips are on the back -- Have A Nice
    Day".
    The tips were:
    1. Plant your corn early.
    2. Keep your powder dry.
    3. Always have clean underwear on.

    If the restaurant needed that extra 20% then their posted prices were
    too low in the first place.



    Find a penny
    Pick it up.
    Now go home
    And sew the rip in your butt!
    I keep hearing they are going to do away with pennies, and
    round everything up to either a 5 or 0 in the last digit of the
    cents column.

    Doubt if it will work because of taxes. Sure, can round up or down but
    in the long run even that doesn't work out because the displayed amount
    is only to two decimal points and the actual math is to I don't know how
    far. Occasionally the register would say the customer owed 1› on an
    even exchange - I never made them pay (one cashier would try to make her customer pay and I'd get involved. "But my register wil be short a
    penny!" "Do you count the pennies at close?" "No." "So...." "But I'll
    be short!" "But you don't count them.").

    Now if the register said the customer was owed a penny I always gave
    them the penny, along with a comment of this being their lucky day or something similar. Receipt said they were owed money. :)


    I was reading an article a while back where the 'poor' spend more money
    on the same item that the 'rich'. (The terms are relative.) If
    someone has to buy an item and pay cash they are spending less for that item than someone who has to finance, IOW pay interest (money to borrow money).
    That's how I treat the debit card. The purchase is made right
    then, and there are no interest fees.

    Which is how the credit card should also be treated IMO. Yes, nice to
    make a large purchase because have the credit and pay back over time
    with a _reasonable_ interest for extending credit. I don't consider 23%
    much less 29% interest reasonable.


    Works for me! My thinking is those little, infrequent splurges are
    good for the soul. I'd not go overboard in either direction: not going
    to restrict myself to go to a super-cheap place with mediocre food just
    to save money when eating out on Christmas Money. OTOH definitely not going to a Michelin restaurant and splurge all my fun money. OTOH if I had _always_ wanted to go to that Michelin money and now could afford
    it I'd go. Lots of variables.
    My brother will have a cow if he has to stay home. He hates
    cooking, he has no hobbies (or interest in any of mine), he
    apparently gets more money than I do on disability, but he can
    easily spend over $50 a day at a local restaurant on food and
    drink (usually beer). With what he spends in 4 days, that gets me groceries to last the entire month.

    I guess it's "goodie for him!" then.


    Right. Again, a lot of variables. On one hand a lot of inconvenience
    not having a car but then it's better than laying around in a long
    narrow box!
    And, the car repairs can be several thousand dollars.

    Which beats buy a new (as in replacement) car, though with several of
    those thousand dollar bills in a shorter period of time might be better
    to apply that bill money towards the new car.


    Yes. Best to cut up and/or turn inside-out to hide the contents.
    I still like the one with the porch pirates...in a box, put a
    bunch of used kitty litter, toilet paper, and diapers. There is a
    series of videos on YouTube (search for Glitter Bomb) which
    proves "revenge is a dish best served cold".

    I'm thinking warm and then it sticks to the skin better!



    Some of the 'cop shows' will show the police dog capturing the
    criminal. Almost ROTFL-funny when the big tough I-can-outsmart-the-cops guy starts whimpering when the dog has captured him.
    Or starts screaming for them to make the dog stop biting him.

    Not such a tough guy now!



    Locally we broke the record high for the date: think it was 67ø. So
    from the official wind chill of -40ø we had over a 100ø difference.
    And then the next day dropped to almost freezing, so about a forty
    degree difference in 24 hours.
    I saw portions of Iowa are under either Winter Storm Warnings
    or Ice Storm Warnings this Monday morning. Arkansas is at the
    other end of the spectrum, with Flood Watches in effect now, and
    Tornado Watches likely by midday.

    It was a little foggy here Monday morning -- remember half-joking with
    myself the fog was the left-over smoke from the fireworks the night
    before. Tuesday (yesterday as I write this) was also somewhat foggy in
    the morning and then really got foogy in the afternoon -- visibility was
    maybe a third to half a mile. They were talking about the possibility of
    snow showers in the evening but that didn't occur. Maybe some tonight
    but accumulating only on grassy surfaces as the ground is warm.



    At least we won't have to worry about bitter arctic air like we
    had here before Christmas for a bit...although some long range
    progs show it turning colder again by mid-January. Yet, with
    temperatures in the 70s in January for us, that's prime tornado
    weather.

    Don't want those!



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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Fri Jan 6 08:05:00 2023
    Barry,

    Where do you think 'dirt' came from?!

    The Good Lord created it.

    Some have used a switch -- that stick.

    Or a belt or strap. Strip 'em and whip 'em!! As the Proverbs note:

    1) Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child. But, the rod of
    correction will drive it far from him.

    2) Do not withold discipline from a child. For, if you beat him with
    a rod, he shall not die.

    I got more than my share of spankings growing up (I think my brother
    got more <G>)...but I consider myself better for it.

    Nowadays, they say "You can't spank them...it'll ruin their self esteem".

    Feet over there in the corner....

    Or the sculpture of winter precipitation in the shape of two walking things..."two feet of snow". <G>

    So we're back to belly up to the bar, feet in the corner from that explosion?!

    Sort of like the mess in Congress right now, where they can't get enough votes to get a speaker. The Republicans are in disarray, and the Democrats
    are absolutely giddy. One Congressman said "these folks are getting high
    on the smell of their own farts". I head they were going to do so a study
    on second hand flatulence, but they couldn't find any volunteers.

    Actually ended up free: I sent a check (that's how old it is!!) to register and it was returned, I think by the family of the developer
    and a note which between the lines indicated he may have died.

    I use MultiMail, although when I was on the 32-bit system, I ran OLX.

    If the restaurant needed that extra 20% then their posted prices were
    too low in the first place.

    That's true. I ordered over $200 worth of groceries yesterday, but that should last me the rest of the month.

    I had ordered 2 orders from an area Wendy's earlier this week, on 2
    separate days. The first order was great...the second one, the iced tea
    tipped over in the bag, soaking the food. In the future, I may not order
    a beverage. I was going to order from Subway, but it would've been $15
    more.

    Doubt if it will work because of taxes. Sure, can round up or down but
    in the long run even that doesn't work out because the displayed amount
    is only to two decimal points and the actual math is to I don't know
    how far. Occasionally the register would say the customer owed 1› on
    an even exchange - I never made them pay (one cashier would try to make her customer pay and I'd get involved. "But my register wil be short a penny!" "Do you count the pennies at close?" "No." "So...." "But
    I'll be short!" "But you don't count them.").

    They probably want to embezzle the extra, and say there was "a voided ticket". I think that happened several times while I was working at a
    local Burger King over 40 years ago. The franchise owner required the
    employees to take a polygraph test...but they had to sign a statement
    saying they weren't being forced into doing it. Yet, if they refused to
    take the test, they were fired (sounds like coersion (sp?) to me). There
    was also a policy that if the cashier had "cash shortages", the amounts
    came out of their paycheck. Yet, one of the managers was dipping into
    the drawer, embezzling stuff, and the blame fell on the cashier. The
    franchise owner set up a 2 week suspension without pay, and unfortunately,
    I fell under that hammer.

    Now, if I counted the drawer at the start, and did every transaction,
    then I'd take responsibility for the drawer. It never occurred to me that
    a manager might be dipping in/embezzling things.

    Well, 3 days after the suspension began, it was payday, so I walked
    in to get my check, and the owner asked where I had been. I replied "2
    week suspension without pay for cash shortages...your rules"...and was
    heading out to my car to leave. He said "Consider the suspension ended;
    I need you". To me, that spoke volumes...that he felt I was not guilty of embezzlement.

    Now if the register said the customer was owed a penny I always gave
    them the penny, along with a comment of this being their lucky day or something similar. Receipt said they were owed money. :)

    GIGO -- garbage in, garbage out. Computers and cash registers aren't smart...they only think they are.

    Which is how the credit card should also be treated IMO. Yes, nice to make a large purchase because have the credit and pay back over time
    with a _reasonable_ interest for extending credit. I don't consider
    23% much less 29% interest reasonable.

    And, they'd raise it higher if they could. This inflation balloon is
    going to burst sooner more than later...and it'll make the stock market
    crashes of 1929 and 1987 look like child's play.

    I guess it's "goodie for him!" then.

    As long as I have power, internet, food, and drink, and the Post Office
    Box mail can wait 2 weeks between pickups, I can stay home.

    Which beats buy a new (as in replacement) car, though with several of those thousand dollar bills in a shorter period of time might be better
    to apply that bill money towards the new car.

    I remember when a new car was around $2000...now, it's 15 times that (approaching $30,000 in some cases).

    I'm thinking warm and then it sticks to the skin better!

    Besides the sticky glitter, there was the "nasty fart spray". McCauley Caulkin (from Home Alone) visited the inventor of the original Glitter
    Bomb (a former NASA scientist, who became the victim of a porch pirate
    one day), and had "an updated plan for him". The inventor was ecstatic.
    The new and improved fart spray was so nasty, that McCauley lamented "I
    think I just ate a turd". :P

    Not such a tough guy now!

    Good dog. :)

    It was a little foggy here Monday morning -- remember half-joking with myself the fog was the left-over smoke from the fireworks the night before. Tuesday (yesterday as I write this) was also somewhat foggy in the morning and then really got foogy in the afternoon -- visibility
    was maybe a third to half a mile. They were talking about the
    possibility of snow showers in the evening but that didn't occur.
    Maybe some tonight but accumulating only on grassy surfaces as the
    ground is warm.

    In some areas, both fog and smoke led to chain reaction highway crashes,
    from the lowered visibility. They confirmed 3 tornadoes in Arkansas from
    this past Monday.

    ... Odd headline: Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge.

    I carry no electrical charge, and can be handled safely. <G>

    See tagline below.

    Daryl

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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Fri Jan 6 08:09:00 2023
    Barry,

    Better would not yourself get to that point!

    That has happened quite a bit lately. However, my big problem lately has
    been a crappy one...intestinal flu. I don't know if it's from Covid (I still have my sense of taste and smell, but Covid is respiratory not rectal), or
    from the water here at the house. The thing is, they test nasally, but the Chinese do it rectally...what a PITA that must be...and we males thought the DRE prostate check was bad. :P

    Take 3 steps back; if not hear beeping noise you're not as big as truck.

    This young boy and his Dad were in an elevator, when this heavy set woman enters the elevator at a certain floor. The boy remarks "Boy, Dad...she has
    a big butt!!". The father apologizes to the woman, and scolds his son, noting "Some folks can't help that, because of their metabolism and the way their systems are".

    Suddenly, the woman's pager starts beeping, and the boy panics...yelling "LOOK OUT, DAD!! SHE'S BACKING UP!!" <G>

    Daryl

    ... When it comes to being SANE, I'm with the "IN" crowd.
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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Sat Jan 7 08:53:00 2023

    Hi Daryl!

    Where do you think 'dirt' came from?!
    The Good Lord created it.

    And who do you think played in it?!


    Some have used a switch -- that stick.
    Or a belt or strap. Strip 'em and whip 'em!! As the Proverbs
    note:
    1) Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child. But, the rod
    of correction will drive it far from him.
    2) Do not withold discipline from a child. For, if you beat him
    with a rod, he shall not die.
    I got more than my share of spankings growing up (I think my
    brother got more <G>)...but I consider myself better for it.
    Nowadays, they say "You can't spank them...it'll ruin their
    self esteem".

    Personally I agree. I think the problem occurred when excess occurred:
    both excessive spankings and excessive withholdings. ... And things
    "get interesting" because sometimes a child will misbehave to get
    attention while other times just 'devilish'.


    Feet over there in the corner....
    Or the sculpture of winter precipitation in the shape of two
    walking things..."two feet of snow". <G>

    Saw that - also have seen birthday card: older man (like a uncle) tells
    the kid "you've grown another foot" -- and the kid does have three legs,
    plus through the window one can see a nuclear power plant in the
    distance. (Hey: I'm the one who brought to the radiologist a cartoon I
    found of a patient hiding who had put a pile of ashes on the X-ray table
    for the cartoon radiologist to find!)


    So we're back to belly up to the bar, feet in the corner from that explosion?!
    Sort of like the mess in Congress right now, where they can't
    get enough votes to get a speaker. The Republicans are in
    disarray, and the Democrats are absolutely giddy. One Congressman
    said "these folks are getting high on the smell of their own
    farts". I head they were going to do so a study on second hand
    flatulence, but they couldn't find any volunteers.

    Yes, I've been loosely following that. That's also holding up the
    swearing in of the newly-elected representatives.


    Actually ended up free: I sent a check (that's how old it is!!) to register and it was returned, I think by the family of the developer
    and a note which between the lines indicated he may have died.
    I use MultiMail, although when I was on the 32-bit system, I
    ran OLX.

    I was talking about the off-line editor: here SEDIT. At the time I was checking through options I had the dictionary function and allowed
    taglines. ...I just need to remember to use the Ctrl-A for the
    dictionary function!



    If the restaurant needed that extra 20% then their posted prices were
    too low in the first place.
    That's true. I ordered over $200 worth of groceries yesterday,
    but that should last me the rest of the month.

    Except $6 for a gallon of milk, $5 for a box of crackers....


    I had ordered 2 orders from an area Wendy's earlier this week,
    on 2 separate days. The first order was great...the second one,
    the iced tea tipped over in the bag, soaking the food. In the
    future, I may not order a beverage. I was going to order from
    Subway, but it would've been $15 more.

    I would have called Wendy's to complain-advise of the mishap. The
    driver should have known of the wet bag on delivery to you. Either
    Wendy's didn't pack properly for the delivery or the driver did some interesting driving. (It is possible the driver had to swerve or
    suddenly stop to avoid an accident.)

    IMO Subway used to be good for the value but not any longer.


    Doubt if it will work because of taxes. Sure, can round up or down but
    in the long run even that doesn't work out because the displayed amount
    is only to two decimal points and the actual math is to I don't know
    how far. Occasionally the register would say the customer owed 1› on
    an even exchange - I never made them pay (one cashier would try to make her customer pay and I'd get involved. "But my register wil be short a penny!" "Do you count the pennies at close?" "No." "So...." "But
    I'll be short!" "But you don't count them.").
    They probably want to embezzle the extra, and say there was "a
    voided ticket". I think that happened several times while I was
    working at a local Burger King over 40 years ago. The franchise
    owner required the employees to take a polygraph test...but they
    had to sign a statement saying they weren't being forced into
    doing it. Yet, if they refused to take the test, they were fired
    (sounds like coersion (sp?) to me). There was also a policy that
    if the cashier had "cash shortages", the amounts came out of
    their paycheck. Yet, one of the managers was dipping into the
    drawer, embezzling stuff, and the blame fell on the cashier. The
    franchise owner set up a 2 week suspension without pay, and
    unfortunately, I fell under that hammer.
    Now, if I counted the drawer at the start, and did every
    transaction, then I'd take responsibility for the drawer. It
    never occurred to me that a manager might be dipping
    in/embezzling things.
    Well, 3 days after the suspension began, it was payday, so I
    walked in to get my check, and the owner asked where I had been.
    I replied "2 week suspension without pay for cash
    shortages...your rules"...and was heading out to my car to leave.
    He said "Consider the suspension ended; I need you". To me, that
    spoke volumes...that he felt I was not guilty of embezzlement.

    Right. For a while the store where I worked at implimented a single- cashier-per-till rule (well, corporate did). Piddled off a few
    customers as they were used to checking out a Position 1 and had to move
    to Position 2 because the cashier could not.

    And the auditers or score-keepers or someone at corporate for a
    programming error: If Register 1 was locked (because no cashier - break, whatever) then the 'points' in the downstream registers (#2, #3...)
    didn't get counted! 'Points'were something like number of customers per
    hour, which was used to calculate the number of cashiers that should be scheduled and other metrics.


    Now if the register said the customer was owed a penny I always gave
    them the penny, along with a comment of this being their lucky day or something similar. Receipt said they were owed money. :)
    GIGO -- garbage in, garbage out. Computers and cash registers
    aren't smart...they only think they are.

    Just a little problem with programming. :)


    Which is how the credit card should also be treated IMO. Yes, nice to make a large purchase because have the credit and pay back over time
    with a _reasonable_ interest for extending credit. I don't consider
    23% much less 29% interest reasonable.
    And, they'd raise it higher if they could. This inflation
    balloon is going to burst sooner more than later...and it'll make
    the stock market crashes of 1929 and 1987 look like child's play.

    Possibly -- a lot of factors are in place now which weren't in 1929,
    guessing a few also from 1987. to avoid a runaway issue. The only thing
    I can do is be careful of my spending -- spend too much now I won't have
    for later. Of course that creates some problems now, so by me holding
    on to my money that creates problems. Can't win! (Thought I'm going to
    do what I think I need to do for me to win.)



    I guess it's "goodie for him!" then.
    As long as I have power, internet, food, and drink, and the
    Post Office Box mail can wait 2 weeks between pickups, I can stay
    home.

    Yup. The only thing I'd be a hare concerned about is the two weeks
    between mail box pick-ups: I'd check into their rules and regulations
    (ask!) about the length of time mail sits there before triggers an "is
    the customer alive?" type of thing. Don't want a "return to sender".


    Which beats buy a new (as in replacement) car, though with several of those thousand dollar bills in a shorter period of time might be better
    to apply that bill money towards the new car.
    I remember when a new car was around $2000...now, it's 15 times
    that (approaching $30,000 in some cases).

    My first car was $2 less than $2000 and it was a very nice used car.
    Now that amount is probably barely covering something in the junk yard.
    Of course a bunch of other factors: I don't recall what the wages were.
    And I'm certainly glad the pricings for computers haven't followed that
    trend! ...Well, wasn't able to quickly find what I wanted but this'll
    do: a 1989 Tandy 5000 (unknown hard drive capacity) was $5,000 in 1989,
    or $12,000 today (suuuure: the post is undated!). I don't have personal equivalences as I've been building my own hardware lately but I recall
    the 1 MB (one mega-byte) hard drive I was considering for my DEC Rainbow
    100 was right around $1000. I have a 3 TB (so x3,000,000 if my math is working right) and I can purchase one of those starting at $35!
    Flasback: a 10-pack of RX-50 format floppy dishs was $50!! RX-50 stored
    400 KB!!!


    I'm thinking warm and then it sticks to the skin better!
    Besides the sticky glitter, there was the "nasty fart spray".
    McCauley Caulkin (from Home Alone) visited the inventor of the
    original Glitter Bomb (a former NASA scientist, who became the
    victim of a porch pirate one day), and had "an updated plan for
    him". The inventor was ecstatic. The new and improved fart spray
    was so nasty, that McCauley lamented "I think I just ate a turd". :P
    Not such a tough guy now!
    Good dog. :)

    I wander past a dog in the extended neighbourhood occasionally who isn't
    used to me -- sort of recognizes me at first but isn't sure so he barks
    a little 'meanly'. I tell him he's is doing his job and therefore a
    good boy but it's me and I'm safe (not those exact words!) -- basically
    causes him to calm down as he sort of recognizes me and I'm not a
    threat.


    It was a little foggy here Monday morning -- remember half-joking with myself the fog was the left-over smoke from the fireworks the night before. Tuesday (yesterday as I write this) was also somewhat foggy in the morning and then really got foogy in the afternoon -- visibility
    was maybe a third to half a mile. They were talking about the
    possibility of snow showers in the evening but that didn't occur.
    Maybe some tonight but accumulating only on grassy surfaces as the
    ground is warm.
    In some areas, both fog and smoke led to chain reaction highway
    crashes, from the lowered visibility. They confirmed 3 tornadoes
    in Arkansas from this past Monday.

    And in any case drive according to conditions. 25 might be too fast!


    ... Odd headline: Man Struck By Lightning Faces Battery Charge.
    I carry no electrical charge, and can be handled safely. <G>

    Huh: electroencephalogram is flat!


    See tagline below.
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    Ugh! Now you're just being revolting!


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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Sat Jan 7 08:53:00 2023

    Hi Daryl!

    Better would not yourself get to that point!
    That has happened quite a bit lately. However, my big problem
    lately has been a crappy one...intestinal flu. I don't know if
    it's from Covid (I still have my sense of taste and smell, but
    Covid is respiratory not rectal), or from the water here at the
    house. The thing is, they test nasally, but the Chinese do it rectally...what a PITA that must be...and we males thought the
    DRE prostate check was bad. :P

    With a cold I'll get a loose stool bacause of all the mucous I swallow.
    The little COVID buggers can probably attach to the boogers (word play!)
    and so detected down there.

    Just a heck of a lot more convenient to be able to check with a nasal
    swab! ...Swab - ah-choo! - squirt! (Oops!)



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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Mon Jan 9 16:34:00 2023
    Barry,

    Where do you think 'dirt' came from?!
    The Good Lord created it.

    And who do you think played in it?!

    It wasn't me. :P

    Personally I agree. I think the problem occurred when excess occurred: both excessive spankings and excessive withholdings. ... And things
    "get interesting" because sometimes a child will misbehave to get attention while other times just 'devilish'.

    One should never discipline their child in "anger". Of course, when you
    are on the receiving end, you thing it's grievious.

    Saw that - also have seen birthday card: older man (like a uncle) tells the kid "you've grown another foot" -- and the kid does have three
    legs, plus through the window one can see a nuclear power plant in the distance. (Hey: I'm the one who brought to the radiologist a cartoon
    I found of a patient hiding who had put a pile of ashes on the X-ray
    table for the cartoon radiologist to find!)

    Yeah, I've seen all of those.

    Or the one where these church missionaries are at the door, and ask "Have
    You Found Jesus??"...and The Lord is "hiding behind the drapes". <G>

    Yes, I've been loosely following that. That's also holding up the swearing in of the newly-elected representatives.

    They finally got it done after the 15th ballot.

    I was talking about the off-line editor: here SEDIT. At the time I was checking through options I had the dictionary function and allowed taglines. ...I just need to remember to use the Ctrl-A for the
    dictionary function!

    Some people are dictionaries...as no words can describe them.

    Except $6 for a gallon of milk, $5 for a box of crackers....

    I ordered a few things from Wal-Mart today, but they were out of bread.
    I didn't need any beer or milk (I don't use those), or toilet paper (I've
    got plenty). But, those are the 4 things that disappear from the stores
    around here when they start warning of a potential winter storm.

    I would have called Wendy's to complain-advise of the mishap. The
    driver should have known of the wet bag on delivery to you. Either Wendy's didn't pack properly for the delivery or the driver did some interesting driving. (It is possible the driver had to swerve or
    suddenly stop to avoid an accident.)

    Well, I have enough food now where I won't need to order out until
    next month. There was a special from Slim Chickens today for 25 tenders
    for $25 in honor of the college football championship tonight (Jan. 9),
    but I decided to pass on it. That's like the potential football team quarterback who was asked if he could pass a football...and he said
    "only if I can swallow it". :P

    IMO Subway used to be good for the value but not any longer.

    The price of everything has gone up...and I rarely order out anymore,
    as I can't afford it.

    Right. For a while the store where I worked at implimented a single- cashier-per-till rule (well, corporate did). Piddled off a few
    customers as they were used to checking out a Position 1 and had to
    move to Position 2 because the cashier could not.

    Everyone wants to "have it their way" all the time, but that's like
    expecting Congress to balance the budget, Social Security to make a
    profit, and Hell to freeze over.

    Possibly -- a lot of factors are in place now which weren't in 1929, guessing a few also from 1987. to avoid a runaway issue. The only
    thing I can do is be careful of my spending -- spend too much now I
    won't have for later. Of course that creates some problems now, so by
    me holding on to my money that creates problems. Can't win! (Thought
    I'm going to do what I think I need to do for me to win.)

    Well, the money isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

    Yup. The only thing I'd be a hare concerned about is the two weeks between mail box pick-ups: I'd check into their rules and regulations (ask!) about the length of time mail sits there before triggers an "is
    the customer alive?" type of thing. Don't want a "return to sender".

    With the Post Office Box, it stays there until I pick it up...I usually
    go once every 2-3 weeks, and that takes care of things.

    I wander past a dog in the extended neighbourhood occasionally who
    isn't used to me -- sort of recognizes me at first but isn't sure so he barks a little 'meanly'. I tell him he's is doing his job and
    therefore a good boy but it's me and I'm safe (not those exact words!)
    -- basically causes him to calm down as he sort of recognizes me and
    I'm not a threat.

    I saw a meme with the Grinch holding a dachshund, and the dachshund was
    ready to bite the Grinch. <G>

    And in any case drive according to conditions. 25 might be too fast!

    Everyone is in such a hurry.

    Huh: electroencephalogram is flat!

    But, I'm still breathing. <G>

    Ugh! Now you're just being revolting!

    I'm positive I lost an electron somewhere. <G>

    Daryl

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Tue Jan 10 08:17:00 2023

    Hi Daryl!

    Where do you think 'dirt' came from?!
    The Good Lord created it.
    And who do you think played in it?!
    It wasn't me. :P

    Thank you for keeping my dirt clean. :)



    Personally I agree. I think the problem occurred when excess occurred: both excessive spankings and excessive withholdings. ... And things
    "get interesting" because sometimes a child will misbehave to get attention while other times just 'devilish'.
    One should never discipline their child in "anger". Of course,
    when you are on the receiving end, you thing it's grievious.

    Yes: the surprise of the slap, the sting, the humiliation. As I implied
    in an earlier message, there's a very fine line between disciplining and excessive punishment.



    Or the one where these church missionaries are at the door, and
    ask "Have You Found Jesus??"...and The Lord is "hiding behind the
    drapes". <G>

    Love that one!


    Yes, I've been loosely following that. That's also holding up the swearing in of the newly-elected representatives.
    They finally got it done after the 15th ballot.

    Yup. ...Things wil be interesting!


    I was talking about the off-line editor: here SEDIT. At the time I was checking through options I had the dictionary function and allowed taglines. ...I just need to remember to use the Ctrl-A for the
    dictionary function!
    Some people are dictionaries...as no words can describe them.

    In that case how about a Thesaurus? ...Maybe revise that to case/instance/example....


    Except $6 for a gallon of milk, $5 for a box of crackers....
    I ordered a few things from Wal-Mart today, but they were out
    of bread. I didn't need any beer or milk (I don't use those), or
    toilet paper (I've got plenty). But, those are the 4 things that
    disappear from the stores around here when they start warning of
    a potential winter storm.

    The out-of-stock's are sometimes a little strange; suppose "in the
    details". If one ingredient is unavailable then the whole item can't be
    made: the recipe is based on a specific type of oil (for instance),
    which gives a bit of flavour, has a specific cooking characteristic,
    interacts with the other ingredients in certain way.... A lot easier
    for a home cook to substitute than a commercial site.



    I would have called Wendy's to complain-advise of the mishap. The
    driver should have known of the wet bag on delivery to you. Either Wendy's didn't pack properly for the delivery or the driver did some interesting driving. (It is possible the driver had to swerve or
    suddenly stop to avoid an accident.)
    Well, I have enough food now where I won't need to order out
    until next month. There was a special from Slim Chickens today
    for 25 tenders for $25 in honor of the college football
    championship tonight (Jan. 9), but I decided to pass on it.
    That's like the potential football team quarterback who was asked
    if he could pass a football...and he said "only if I can swallow
    it". :P

    (Why am I thinking a urologist should be involved?!)



    IMO Subway used to be good for the value but not any longer.
    The price of everything has gone up...and I rarely order out
    anymore, as I can't afford it.

    We gradually decreased our eating-out in the years pre-pandemic:
    combination of time it took, sometimes the food wasn't as good as it
    should have been/was the previous time, etc. Back then the cost wasn't
    as great a factor as it is now.



    Right. For a while the store where I worked at implimented a single- cashier-per-till rule (well, corporate did). Piddled off a few
    customers as they were used to checking out a Position 1 and had to
    move to Position 2 because the cashier could not.
    Everyone wants to "have it their way" all the time, but that's
    like expecting Congress to balance the budget, Social Security to
    make a profit, and Hell to freeze over.

    It was supposed to be more efficient use of resouces (and in tiny print
    slash expenses). One of the main problems was the numbers were based on hitting the Total button on the register: not a bad problem at the
    general cashiering areas where customers come and go constantly but in departments like Large Appliances it can take an hour to show the
    customer the merchandise and a decision to be made and so a sale. So according to the bean-counters there was nothing done until an hour
    after the store opened when the sale was done and therefore no need for employees to be scheduled. Oops! (The real-life manangers had to edit
    the automated scheduler; they'd get nastygrams for overriding until it
    was figured out why the bad automated scheduling, which of course the
    corporate big-wigs claimed to be perfect.)



    Possibly -- a lot of factors are in place now which weren't in 1929, guessing a few also from 1987. to avoid a runaway issue. The only
    thing I can do is be careful of my spending -- spend too much now I
    won't have for later. Of course that creates some problems now, so by
    me holding on to my money that creates problems. Can't win! (Thought
    I'm going to do what I think I need to do for me to win.)
    Well, the money isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

    Ha: what about those pennies??!!!!


    Yup. The only thing I'd be a hare concerned about is the two weeks between mail box pick-ups: I'd check into their rules and regulations (ask!) about the length of time mail sits there before triggers an "is
    the customer alive?" type of thing. Don't want a "return to sender".
    With the Post Office Box, it stays there until I pick it up...I
    usually go once every 2-3 weeks, and that takes care of things.

    OK, didn't know if there was a policy it it wasn't picked up within a
    certain period of time and/or the box overflowed.....



    I saw a meme with the Grinch holding a dachshund, and the
    dachshund was ready to bite the Grinch. <G>

    I wouldn't want to have been held that way!



    And in any case drive according to conditions. 25 might be too fast!
    Everyone is in such a hurry.

    That and not thinking to change to meet current conditions. The speed
    sign is for common and proper driving conditions.



    Huh: electroencephalogram is flat!
    But, I'm still breathing. <G>

    Blame that on the Autonomic Nervous System!



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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Thu Jan 12 10:17:00 2023
    Barry,

    Thank you for keeping my dirt clean. :)

    Somebody had to do it. <G>

    Yes: the surprise of the slap, the sting, the humiliation. As I
    implied in an earlier message, there's a very fine line between disciplining and excessive punishment.

    Then you have the other extreme of those who have a fetish for it.

    Or the one where these church missionaries are at the door, and
    ask "Have You Found Jesus??"...and The Lord is "hiding behind the
    drapes". <G>

    Love that one!

    God has a sense of humor...He created us. :P

    Yup. ...Things wil be interesting!

    Of course, with Republicans in the House, and Democrats in the Senate
    and the White House, nothing will get done...gridlock is the norm.

    In that case how about a Thesaurus? ...Maybe revise that to case/instance/example....

    Well, the creatures back then didn't look to it for coffee...as it's necessary for survival...and look what happened to them!!

    That's like the potential football team quarterback who was asked
    if he could pass a football...and he said "only if I can swallow
    it". :P

    (Why am I thinking a urologist should be involved?!)

    He must have one heck of a catheter or a....never mind. :P

    We gradually decreased our eating-out in the years pre-pandemic: combination of time it took, sometimes the food wasn't as good as it should have been/was the previous time, etc. Back then the cost wasn't
    as great a factor as it is now.

    When I worked for Burger King over 40 years ago, a Whopper was just over
    $1. Now, it's over 5 times that amount.

    employees to be scheduled. Oops! (The real-life manangers had to
    edit the automated scheduler; they'd get nastygrams for overriding
    until it was figured out why the bad automated scheduling, which of
    course the corporate big-wigs claimed to be perfect.)

    The hardest thing was to make sure you had enough staff on hand, and if business was slow, they weren't standing around goofing off. "If you've
    got time to lean, you've got time to clean".

    Ha: what about those pennies??!!!!

    You actually have snakes and automobiles, but not sex with pennies. This
    is because you have one penny face up (copperhead), and one face down
    (Lincoln (memorial)). But, you won't see any sex...after all, what did you expect for 2 cents, you cheapskate??!! <G>

    OK, didn't know if there was a policy it it wasn't picked up within a certain period of time and/or the box overflowed.....

    If the box gets to overflowing, they just put it all in a crate, and put
    a note in the box, saying I have to go up to the counter. I'm going to
    wait until next Tuesday, 2 weeks since I last checked it, and because next Monday is a holiday, so the post offices, government offices, schools, etc. will be closed.

    I wouldn't want to have been held that way!

    And of course, dachshunds are always innocent as a newborn baby...baby
    rat, that is. <G>

    That and not thinking to change to meet current conditions. The speed sign is for common and proper driving conditions.

    Speed Limit is NOT a challenge...just like the instructions DO NOT BEND written on an envelope with photos.

    Blame that on the Autonomic Nervous System!

    I'm trying to stay on this side of the grass.

    Daryl

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Fri Jan 13 07:42:00 2023

    Hi Daryl!

    Yes: the surprise of the slap, the sting, the humiliation. As I
    implied in an earlier message, there's a very fine line between disciplining and excessive punishment.
    Then you have the other extreme of those who have a fetish for
    it.

    They probably are thinking "caress, tickles... That barely a start!".



    Or the one where these church missionaries are at the door, and
    ask "Have You Found Jesus??"...and The Lord is "hiding behind the
    drapes". <G>
    Love that one!
    God has a sense of humor...He created us. :P

    Saw this the other night: Eve to Adam - "Have you been cheating on me?
    Let me check your ribs!".


    Yup. ...Things will be interesting!
    Of course, with Republicans in the House, and Democrats in the
    Senate and the White House, nothing will get done...gridlock is
    the norm.

    But it makes for good news copy when there is a stalement and the
    deadline is days, now hours away!! And so-and-so breaks the deadlock --
    what a hero (and so gets re-elected so the same thing can happen).


    In that case how about a Thesaurus? ...Maybe revise that to case/instance/example....
    Well, the creatures back then didn't look to it for coffee...as
    it's necessary for survival...and look what happened to them!!

    Should have had the coffee: boiling water takes contaminates out. (Not necessarily all, but to a survivable level.)


    That's like the potential football team quarterback who was asked
    if he could pass a football...and he said "only if I can swallow
    it". :P
    (Why am I thinking a urologist should be involved?!)
    He must have one heck of a catheter or a....never mind. :P

    Now we're back to that kink stuff at the top!


    We gradually decreased our eating-out in the years pre-pandemic: combination of time it took, sometimes the food wasn't as good as it should have been/was the previous time, etc. Back then the cost wasn't
    as great a factor as it is now.
    When I worked for Burger King over 40 years ago, a Whopper was
    just over $1. Now, it's over 5 times that amount.

    Initially "the horror!" but then one has to think of the changing value
    of the dollar: people are earningmore dollars per hour, so more dollars
    to spend ...on what used to be a dollar hamburger. <sigh>



    employees to be scheduled. Oops! (The real-life manangers had to
    edit the automated scheduler; they'd get nastygrams for overriding
    until it was figured out why the bad automated scheduling, which of
    course the corporate big-wigs claimed to be perfect.)
    The hardest thing was to make sure you had enough staff on
    hand, and if business was slow, they weren't standing around
    goofing off. "If you've got time to lean, you've got time to
    clean".

    Right. Theoretically want one extra person at all times so the customer
    who just came in doesn't have to wait for somebody.


    Ha: what about those pennies??!!!!
    You actually have snakes and automobiles, but not sex with
    pennies. This is because you have one penny face up (copperhead),
    and one face down (Lincoln (memorial)). But, you won't see any
    sex...after all, what did you expect for 2 cents, you
    cheapskate??!! <G>

    Good grief: first it was footballs, now pennies......



    That and not thinking to change to meet current conditions. The speed sign is for common and proper driving conditions.
    Speed Limit is NOT a challenge...just like the instructions DO
    NOT BEND written on an envelope with photos.

    If they really don't wantit to bend put a steel plate in the envelope!!


    Blame that on the Autonomic Nervous System!
    I'm trying to stay on this side of the grass.

    Theel that to someone living in the desert!


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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Mon Jan 16 01:03:00 2023
    Barry,

    They probably are thinking "caress, tickles... That barely a start!".

    They can get rather cheeky with that. :P

    Saw this the other night: Eve to Adam - "Have you been cheating on me? Let me check your ribs!".

    Or the one where The Lord told Adam that He had given him all this stuff,
    and asked what else He could do for him.

    Adam wanted a helpmeet, to keep him company, to cook, to keep the areas clean, etc. The Lord told him "That's going to cost you an arm and a leg".
    Adam said "Lord, I can't afford that. How much can I get for one rib??". <G>

    But it makes for good news copy when there is a stalement and the
    deadline is days, now hours away!! And so-and-so breaks the deadlock
    -- what a hero (and so gets re-elected so the same thing can happen).

    These people say "throw the bums out", but they vote them back in.

    Should have had the coffee: boiling water takes contaminates out. (Not necessarily all, but to a survivable level.)

    JavaScript - instructions on how to make coffee.

    Now we're back to that kink stuff at the top!

    It's Nether Mood Monday. <G>

    Initially "the horror!" but then one has to think of the changing value
    of the dollar: people are earningmore dollars per hour, so more dollars
    to spend ...on what used to be a dollar hamburger. <sigh>

    I remember when gasoline was under 25 cents a gallon.

    Right. Theoretically want one extra person at all times so the
    customer who just came in doesn't have to wait for somebody.

    The word "Service" used to mean something -- Customer Service, Postal Service, Internal Revenue Service, etc.

    Well, I heard two farmers talking the other day. One had to get a bull
    to Service his cows.

    BINGO!! The light came on!! (no wonder my butt hurts so much) <G>.

    Good grief: first it was footballs, now pennies......

    A penny for your thoughts, my friend. ;)

    If they really don't wantit to bend put a steel plate in the envelope!!

    They'd probably return it for insufficient postage.

    Theel that to someone living in the desert!

    You have a point there.

    Daryl

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Tue Jan 17 07:25:00 2023

    Hi Daryl!

    They probably are thinking "caress, tickles... That barely a start!".
    They can get rather cheeky with that. :P

    "Dancing cheek to cheek" - why are they back to back?



    Adam wanted a helpmeet, to keep him company, to cook, to keep
    the areas clean, etc. The Lord told him "That's going to cost you
    an arm and a leg". Adam said "Lord, I can't afford that. How much
    can I get for one rib??". <G>

    If only he hadn't been so cheap!



    But it makes for good news copy when there is a stalement and the
    deadline is days, now hours away!! And so-and-so breaks the deadlock
    -- what a hero (and so gets re-elected so the same thing can happen).
    These people say "throw the bums out", but they vote them back
    in.

    I'd guess either the people who like the status quo outnumber and
    therefore out-vote the ones desiring change or the bad ones are still
    the lesser of the evils.



    Should have had the coffee: boiling water takes contaminates out. (Not necessarily all, but to a survivable level.)
    JavaScript - instructions on how to make coffee.

    Where's that Python when you need it?!



    Initially "the horror!" but then one has to think of the changing value
    of the dollar: people are earningmore dollars per hour, so more dollars
    to spend ...on what used to be a dollar hamburger. <sigh>
    I remember when gasoline was under 25 cents a gallon.

    I remember it being under a dollar but I don't recall how I paid.
    Originally was full service but I don't recall the payment exchange
    (cash, check, credit card). Obviously one of those.



    Good grief: first it was footballs, now pennies......
    A penny for your thoughts, my friend. ;)

    Don't forget the change!


    If they really don't want it to bend put a steel plate in the envelope!!
    They'd probably return it for insufficient postage.

    One Forever stamp isn't enough?!




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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Wed Jan 18 15:25:00 2023
    Barry,

    "Dancing cheek to cheek" - why are they back to back?

    At least they're not glued together.

    If only he hadn't been so cheap!

    That's why the opening scene with "The Jetsons". George goes to give
    Jane a single bill for shopping, and she takes his whole wallet!!

    I'd guess either the people who like the status quo outnumber and therefore out-vote the ones desiring change or the bad ones are still
    the lesser of the evils.

    It's hard to tell. They're already talking about the races for 2024.

    Where's that Python when you need it?!

    Slithered to another domain.

    I remember it being under a dollar but I don't recall how I paid. Originally was full service but I don't recall the payment exchange
    (cash, check, credit card). Obviously one of those.

    Well, with my quitting driving and selling my car 7 months ago now, I
    no longer worry about the car related expenses...although it does suck
    being home all but 2 days a month.

    Don't forget the change!

    Change is good...especially when it relates to udnerwear.

    One Forever stamp isn't enough?!

    Not to them, apparently.

    I hate to see what my Post Office Box charge will be come August.

    Daryl

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Thu Jan 19 07:26:00 2023

    Hi Daryl!

    If only he hadn't been so cheap!
    That's why the opening scene with "The Jetsons". George goes to
    give Jane a single bill for shopping, and she takes his whole
    wallet!!

    To bad that was the only money in the wallet!


    I'd guess either the people who like the status quo outnumber and therefore out-vote the ones desiring change or the bad ones are still
    the lesser of the evils.
    It's hard to tell. They're already talking about the races for
    2024.

    Some of the 2024 considerations started before the 2022 elections were
    over!



    I remember it being under a dollar but I don't recall how I paid. Originally was full service but I don't recall the payment exchange
    (cash, check, credit card). Obviously one of those.
    Well, with my quitting driving and selling my car 7 months ago
    now, I no longer worry about the car related expenses...although
    it does suck being home all but 2 days a month.

    I think I'd be finding an alternative. Adult tricycle with some sort of
    cart for putting groceries and other stuff in. Around here would need
    to motorized so maybe a scooter (don't recall one with a cart). (Locally
    a lot of hills.)



    Don't forget the change!
    Change is good...especially when it relates to udnerwear.

    First it starts with dyslexic spelling, then dyslexic dressing with the
    'tidy whities' over the chest and the arms out the leg holes!


    One Forever stamp isn't enough?!
    Not to them, apparently.

    I have considered getting a postage scale but the cost of the scale
    outweighs the cost savings of putting on an extra stamp. (Pun not
    intended but was good!)


    I hate to see what my Post Office Box charge will be come
    August.

    Wonder if can pre-pay and so delay price increase? (Like buying Forever
    sta,ps before the price increase.)


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  • From Daryl Stout@454:1/33 to Barry Martin on Sat Jan 21 07:02:00 2023
    Barry,

    To bad that was the only money in the wallet!

    I farted in my wallet...now, I have gas money. <G>

    Some of the 2024 considerations started before the 2022 elections were over!

    I'm sure of that. That's one thing I don't miss in working in a silkscreen print shop...all the printing of political signs, bumper stickers, T-shirts, etc. One year, we were working late at night, and over the weekend to print these big signs for one candidate. Election Day was the upcoming Tuesday,
    and I asked the owner what the candidate was going to do, as he hadn't yet picked up all the signs. The owner said "We've got his money, I don't give
    a [censored] whether he picks up the signs or not". For the politicians,
    it was "100% cash on the barrelhead, pay in advance"...or we'd never see
    the money.

    Those 4x8 feet huge screens were a nightmare to work with and clean, let alone prepare for the next job. That's likely what started the arthritis
    over 20 years ago...and it has gotten worse by the day. I now have to use
    a cane to get around the house (which isn't handicapped accessible), and
    a walker when I go out on errands.

    The degenerative disk disease in my back and spine has made things even difficult for me to sit in a chair at the computer for a long time (even
    as I'm answering this QWK packet), or to stand for more than a minute at
    the sink, stove, microwave oven, toilet, or in the shower. I may have to
    go lie back down for a bit. The max pain pill I can take is the 500 mg
    OTC Tylenol caplets...and that's at 2 per day. Yet, with the risk of liver damage, I can't do it every day. If the pain is at a 2 or less on a scale
    of 0-10, I'll tough it out. After that, I've got to take a pill or two,
    but I'm so hypersensitive to anesthetics, pain medications, etc., they
    can knock me out within 30 minutes.

    I think I'd be finding an alternative. Adult tricycle with some sort
    of cart for putting groceries and other stuff in. Around here would
    need to motorized so maybe a scooter (don't recall one with a cart). (Locally a lot of hills.)

    I found my health plan does offer transportation to doctor's appointments. However, I'd still have to take Lyft to the Post Office Box, which I need
    to do. But, with a medication from my pharmacy coming sometime today, I'm
    going to have to wait until Monday. I don't think I could even balance on
    a scooter, and although I still have my drivers license, I'm not planning
    on even renting a car, because of cost, limited income, and no credit
    history to speak of. I got rid of my credit cards when I filed Chapter
    13 bankruptcy in 2009, and only have a debit card now. I never bothered
    to rebuild my credit after the bankruptcy.

    Weather wise, rain and some storms are forecast for much of the southeast half of Arkansas Tuesday into Wednesday, with heavy snow across northwest Arkansas; especially in the higher elevations. At least temperatures will
    warm rather quickly afterwards, and little impacts are expected across central, south, and east Arkansas...but severe weather may occur along
    the Gulf Coast...again. So, if we get storms Tuesday, the BBS will be down
    for a day.

    First it starts with dyslexic spelling, then dyslexic dressing with the 'tidy whities' over the chest and the arms out the leg holes!

    Or like the meme with the father mowing the grass, but his pants are down
    to where his underwear is showing. His son asks his Mom why his Dad is
    wearing his pants like that, and she said "He'll stop wearing them that
    way the moment you do likewise". :P

    Even if they knew what that symbolized, most would do it anyway. That
    area, except for bona fide medical issues, is "exit only".

    I have considered getting a postage scale but the cost of the scale outweighs the cost savings of putting on an extra stamp. (Pun not intended but was good!)

    Stamp out postage increases. :P

    Wonder if can pre-pay and so delay price increase? (Like buying
    Forever stamps before the price increase.)

    You can only renew the box and pay for it within 30 days of its
    expiration, for either a 6 month or 1 year period.

    Daryl

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  • From Barry Martin@454:1/1 to Daryl Stout on Sun Jan 22 07:41:00 2023

    Hi Daryl!

    To bad that was the only money in the wallet!
    I farted in my wallet...now, I have gas money. <G>

    That joke stunk!


    Some of the 2024 considerations started before the 2022 elections were over!
    I'm sure of that. That's one thing I don't miss in working in a silkscreen print shop...all the printing of political signs,
    bumper stickers, T-shirts, etc. One year, we were working late at
    night, and over the weekend to print these big signs for one
    candidate. Election Day was the upcoming Tuesday, and I asked the
    owner what the candidate was going to do, as he hadn't yet picked
    up all the signs. The owner said "We've got his money, I don't
    give a [censored] whether he picks up the signs or not". For the politicians, it was "100% cash on the barrelhead, pay in
    advance"...or we'd never see the money.

    Right: pay first, or at least a sizeable down-payment! (As a customer
    I'd want to somewhat protect myself in case of a printing error:
    "Shirts for Councilman!" -- the name needs to have that 'r'!
    (Supervisor at the store once created a sign for a Flannel Shirt display
    and forgot the 'r'!)


    Those 4x8 feet huge screens were a nightmare to work with and
    clean, let alone prepare for the next job. That's likely what
    started the arthritis over 20 years ago...and it has gotten worse
    by the day. I now have to use a cane to get around the house
    (which isn't handicapped accessible), and a walker when I go out
    on errands.

    Your wallet comment gives me an idea! So if we put you on roller skates,
    wheels on your walker, fart and propel yourself!!


    The degenerative disk disease in my back and spine has made
    things even difficult for me to sit in a chair at the computer
    for a long time (even as I'm answering this QWK packet), or to
    stand for more than a minute at the sink, stove, microwave oven,
    toilet, or in the shower. I may have to go lie back down for a
    bit. The max pain pill I can take is the 500 mg OTC Tylenol
    caplets...and that's at 2 per day. Yet, with the risk of liver
    damage, I can't do it every day. If the pain is at a 2 or less on
    a scale of 0-10, I'll tough it out. After that, I've got to take
    a pill or two, but I'm so hypersensitive to anesthetics, pain
    medications, etc., they can knock me out within 30 minutes.

    No suggestions: too many variables. You already do the short activity
    spurts, medications, etc.


    I think I'd be finding an alternative. Adult tricycle with some sort
    of cart for putting groceries and other stuff in. Around here would
    need to motorized so maybe a scooter (don't recall one with a cart). (Locally a lot of hills.)

    I found my health plan does offer transportation to doctor's appointments. However, I'd still have to take Lyft to the Post
    Office Box, which I need to do. But, with a medication from my
    pharmacy coming sometime today, I'm going to have to wait until
    Monday. I don't think I could even balance on a scooter, and
    although I still have my drivers license,

    The balance issue is why I was thinking three wheels. ...Was watching
    _Pawn Stars_ the other day and someone brought in something you could
    use: was a three-wheeled electric-powered vehicle, think I remember the
    top speed being about 40 MPH. Looked like someone started with a golf
    cart frame and added sheet metal to mostly enclose. They indicated it
    was street-worthy -- Rick (the main guy) mentioned he'd hate being in an accident as probably crush like a Coke can. I also noticed there didn't
    seem any place for a licence plate.


    I'm not planning on
    even renting a car, because of cost, limited income, and no
    credit history to speak of. I got rid of my credit cards when I
    filed Chapter 13 bankruptcy in 2009, and only have a debit card
    now. I never bothered to rebuild my credit after the bankruptcy.

    If no need then no need. Some people 'go wild' with credit cards,
    thinking it 'free money' -- until have to pay it back. ...I write down
    all transactions in a ledger - yes, literally pen and paper. The money becomes a visible, so physical, entity again to me.


    Weather wise, rain and some storms are forecast for much of the southeast half of Arkansas Tuesday into Wednesday, with heavy
    snow across northwest Arkansas; especially in the higher
    elevations. At least temperatures will warm rather quickly
    afterwards, and little impacts are expected across central,
    south, and east Arkansas...but severe weather may occur along the
    Gulf Coast...again. So, if we get storms Tuesday, the BBS will be
    down for a day.

    It started snowing here last night (Saturday 01.21.23) -- so far maybe a
    little over an inch. Looks like finishing up -- will shovel later this morning.



    I have considered getting a postage scale but the cost of the scale outweighs the cost savings of putting on an extra stamp. (Pun not intended but was good!)
    Stamp out postage increases. :P

    Pbbt!!


    Wonder if can pre-pay and so delay price increase? (Like buying
    Forever stamps before the price increase.)
    You can only renew the box and pay for it within 30 days of its expiration, for either a 6 month or 1 year period.

    I sort of figured could not get too much of a deal.


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