Subj : Extra Sweet [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Thu Nov 13 2025 13:31:41 Hi Dave, DD> The yappies are why the techs had to make a return visit. The cable RH> Hopefully they learned that cable doesn't taste good and there will not RH> be a repeat experience. DD> Dunno, They're little scutters. Pomeranian/Pekinese size Whereas the DD> smallest here is a blue-tick beagle. . Hopefully AT&T buried the cable DD> deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep down. Let's hope so. (G) We had a Bichon Frise for a while, about the same size as the Pom/Peke's but much better behaved. She did chew one of the rockers on my rocking chair when she was small but it was only slightly damaged--enough to remember her by. DD> 8<----- +++++----->8 RH> I like cream soda; I do not like Dr. Pepper. I'll probably never try RH> the combination tho. DD> My first go was when somoene handed me a bottle and I took a drink DD> withut paying attention - until it hit my mouth. RH> I'll ask what it is before drinking. DD> This was a relatively stick-in-the-mud typre event with no reasone to DD> exoect something n the "gotcha" category. But it sure go my attention. I still try to peruse the available drinks or ask if offered one, what it is. Did find out that Olive Garden has raspberry diet Coke when we went there for lunch on Tuesday. I'm wondering if this means it will be back as a choice in the "pick your own flavor" machines. DD> I don't understand how soda route drivers think. Their pay is based DD> partly on how much "profuct" they move. If I was delivering a product DD> that sold out every week I'd leave more and smile all the way to the DD> bank. I was RH> They're not all like that. Steve's last civilian job before he went in RH> the Army was filling soda machines at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry RH> Point. He had an established route, don't know how often he had to fill RH> specific machines. Came home with some interesting coins from Marines RH> who tried scamming the machines--he would replace them with quarters of RH> his own and the odd ones got added to an informal coin collection. DD> The Mexican cinco centavo (nickle) coin used to was the same DD> size/weight as the US 25c coin (quarter) but worth (in exchange) about RH> In Steve's case, he got more Korean and European coinage. DD> All Ihave left of "odd" coinage is (if I remember where I put them) DD> some Loonies and Teonies (Canadian dollar/two dollar coins. I don't have any of them but do have an assortment of European countries coinage as we were stationed in Germany pre EU. I've got a few Canadian pennies, Mexican pesoes, various Asian coinage, also some Polish paper money. DD> As they say "A pint's a pound, the world around." What we need is a DD> good five-cent nicklel. RH> Now more than ever, now that the penny is going away. DD> One of the lacals here quit doing pennies a could years ago. Roundibng DD> each transaction to the neareast nickel. And not doing paper dollarsa. When we were stationed in Germany, both the (American) post office and bank on post dealt with pennies, all other facilities rounded to the nearest nickel. IIRC, I rolled maybe a dollar or so in pennies over the almost 6 years we were over there. DD> 8<----- SNYP ----->8 DD> Memphis is sorta/kinda like Hot-lanta. I take the run-around roads and DD> don't try going right through. Generally quicker and less flustrating. RH> Best experience we had driving thru Atlanta was one January night, RH> about 8 pm. By then, evening rush hour was over so we went thru with no RH> slow downs. We've been on the leading edge of the evening (mid RH> afternoon) rush hour and moved right along but the evening time was RH> even smoother sailing. We'd stopped for a later supper about an hour RH> outside the city, gave the traffic time to clear. DD> When I was trailer trucking the big rigs were not allowed "downtown" DD> unless there was a bill of lading for a local address. We were either going thru with just our vehicle (car or truck) or vehicle plus camper; the January trip was with the camper. We'd been out west to visit our girls for Christmas, came home the southern route so we could visit some friends in Alabama along the way. Also avoided any storms going thru the central or northern part of the country. (G) DD> No harder than when we were chirrun - especiallly if you're pre-TV as DD> I wss. RH> We got our first tv when I was 9 years old. Parents didn't listen to RH> radio except in the morning to get latest news/school closings/etc. I RH> don't really remember what we did pre tv, probably read a lot of books. RH> I'll still turn off the tv and grab a book most nights. DD> We got our 1st TV when I was 10 - do 1952. It got two stations since DD> the UHF band was but a glimmer in Lee DeForrest's eyes. We got our first one in the early 60s, maybe a year or so (don't remember exactly) before the JFK assassination. Only got one station for the first few years, then only 2 until I was in college & the local cable guy talked my parents into hooking into a system that gave them a lot of NYC channels. Later on, he tied one in a local (60 miles away) station so folks could have local news/weather. DD> I remember when my dad came home with a 17" table-top TV and it was DD> the "cutting edge" of technology. Heck, my confuser's monitor on this DD> unit is 27" And Dennis is usig the 45" boob tube in the front room as DD> a monitor. Steve used our only tv as a monitor for his C-64 for the first year or so. I'd ask him to be done so I could catch news/weather at 10; he'd say "OK" but Johnny Carson would be almost over before he'd quit. After a 3 month TDY, he used some of the pay saved from that to get a proper monitor. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Behind every good computer - is a jumble of cables! --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .