Subj : Todays Blooper To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Sun Oct 18 2020 11:31:00 Hi Daryl! BM> Why didn't you use a mirror? DS> I don't have a portable mirror, and can't stand for long DS> periods of time, due to the arthritis. BM> Ah! Forgot about that last detail! DS> I can't sit for a long time, either. You're in a heck of a predicament! BM> If the doctor doesn't know by now I'd be more than a little worried! DS> Or when I got my wings clipped (vasectomy), the doctor quipped DS> about "if I came in with a hot dog with mustard in one hand, and DS> a book that said 'Vasectomy 101' in the other, you might be DS> worried". :P BM> Yeah, a bit old-fashioned: should at least be an on-line instructional BM> video! DS> At least it didn't say "Patient must get naked first". :P Hmm, maybe Gynocologist doing a vasectomy through the pants zipper? They're used to accessing through small openings! BM> Best to have things checked every so often just to be sure. Hopefully BM> is just a waste of time and money. DS> If they find something, it's early enough, and treatable. True. Was reading something last night where as a teenager the person posting had noticed very shortly after eating raw fruit their lips would tingle and they'd feel a little sick. The person's mother just chalked it up to the person not wanting to eat raw fruit for whatever childish reason. Fast forward several years and was found they do have an allergy to raw fruit and they were hospitalized occasionally due to some 'undisclosed raw fruit ingredients'. ...OK, so not really treatable but preventable by omission. BM> statement (if no window envelope provided) or make a bunch of labels BM> and use them. DS> I have a self inking stamp to make it easier. You just sit there and it squirts itself with ink? BM> Hasn't rained for a while. DS> We could use some here...north Arkansas is under a Red Flag DS> Warning today. It's lightly raining as I type. Have been playing with a weather station project on a Raspberry Pi: shows the current temperature from some close-by reporting station, and two radar/satellite maps. Those maps have been rather colourful as the system approached and in the area! For whatever reason the off-the-shelf devices where one hangs a thermometer outside and it digitall reports to the base haven't worked up here in the Computer Room for few years. Will work in other areas of the house. Some interference on that particular IoT band (433 MHz IIRC) but doesn't appear to be anything in here. DS> Well, the car now has fresh tires, and has been winterized. My DS> next deal is to get Maaco to repaint it. BM> I don't know if they're still around locally..... Chicago and Peoria. DS> There's one less than 2 miles from me. That makes it more convenient! ...Just for fun looked up Earl Scheib -- used to have commercials for a paint job at $29.95. Closest to me are St. Louis and Chicago. ...Which is a little confusing as other hits said the company closed in 2010. ...OK, apparently those two sites are closed: clicked and one went to something like www.EarlScheibChicago but then gave mme what looked like the spam redirect of "you're our one millionth person!" but in Arabic or Korean -- one of those curlique- looking alphabets. BM> Vaguely rotary telephones -- think had them in the office when I was BM> working College Admissions as I remember fiddling with a project to put BM> an external TouchTone box on mine but chickened out at the actual BM> attachment. At the apartment would have but there's a different BM> between screwing up my stuff and someone else's. DS> I think of the meme with the 2 cellphones, walking in to the DS> room, and see this big rotary phone, and they say "Grandma!!" Yup! ...Actually was kinda funny: when I called the landline company because the line had shorted they pretty much expected you to have a cell phone for the contact information! (Yet they don't provide cell service!) DS> With traveling Sleeping Car, you can keep your mask off in your DS> private compartment. BM> Yes; I was thinking of a longer stroll through the other cars. DS> I'll be happy in my compartment alone. TMI!! BM> I sort of wander the path of cautious. Overly careful takes the fun BM> out of things. Don't want to get injured, but don't want to bubble BM> wrap my life. DS> Some things are "overkill". Right. For some reason thinking bathtub and shower floors: don't want to slip and fall, so non-slip floor or mat. Now that created the problem of cleaning: the textured floor is difficult to clean, can't be scrubbed easily, so use a cleaning spray, which isn't good for the water supply and environment.... BM> OTOH I was told as a teenager I might be dead by 40 or 50 depending BM> on the progression of the muscle syndrome I have. Ha-ha! DS> Fooled you. :P Nah: fooled them! BM> I have a panel cartoon about chickens preferring RSS feed. (And it BM> wasn't from a site computer nerds hang out!) DS> Oh, brother. Whazzamatter: can give but can't take?! ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... Discoveries are made by not following instructions. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .