Subj : Re: food, etc To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Jul 01 2019 18:51:16 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 22-Jun-2019 11:37 <=- NB>>> Sometimes I bring the laptop, sometimes not... depends on whether NB>>> or not I think I'll have need or use for it.... :) BM>> Right. Staying overnight with friends, probably can do without it. BM>> Staying overnight in a hotel for a seminar or business function, BM>> probably bring the laptop to have something to do. NB>> For me now, it's mostly when I'll be gone for more than an overnight, NB>> and expect to have time to use it... possibly for games, possibly NB>> like this, to catch up, or at least not get any farther behind, on NB>> echo messages.... BM> Make sense: if probably going to have the time may as well bring the BM> laptop along. It's not that heavy and bulky, but probably nothing one BM> wants to haul around just on a whim. Yup... I wouldn't want to bring it along when I was sure I'd not be using it, or have any call to wish I'd brought it along.... It'll be going with me on the next two trips, for sure.... to the Pond this week for the 4th and following, and then from the 13-20th for my family's camping week... BM>> I can relate! I used to go home to the apartment and type up my notes BM>> -- before forgetting what the scribbling meant and also a lot easier BM>> to study from typed notes than written ones. Also found out saved a BM>> lot of room: a written page was about half a typed one: NB>> Did you say that backwards....? Wouldn't the typed one be the NB>> shorter one...? BM> Uh, yes. Wonder if dyslexia can extend to entire words?! Probably to entire thoughts, for that matter.... BM>> notebooks weren't as thick nor heavy! And transcribing the notes BM>> was like sitting through the lecture again, so learned twice. NB>> And possibly typing them out might clarify something that wasn't NB>> quite so clear the first time... :) BM> Possibly: at the time of typing I knew what was coming up so when the BM> initial concept was introduced when scribbling down my notes I didn't BM> know and so 'distracted' by "what is ?" yet still had to BM> write to find out. Whatever the overall process was seemed to have BM> worked for me. And that it worked for you was the important thing.... :) BM>>> I'd be reluctant to! And yes, the old stuff didn't have the newer BM>>> security protocols, mainly because they didn't exist back then (!). NB>>> Yup. BM>> Just had a thought, and may not be worth persuing: can the old BM>> protocol of the PCCard be linked to a device using the current BM>> protocol? Sort of a translater/repeater. Sloppy example would be BM>> laptop has VGA output, connect to a DVI adapter, and that adapter to BM>> HDMI. NB>> Possibly, but I'd guess probably not... or at least not easily... NB>> or he would have done something like that already.... BM> Probably. though sometimes not a bad idea to suggest an alternative BM> way: sometimes breaks the thought loop and opens a new possibliliy, BM> sometimes just gets a good laugh. Or an are-you-crazy? look.... :) NB>>> I tend to pick less likely shortcuts... I was a bit surprised this NB>>> week, though, when I got a TripTik for my trip up to Montreal this NB>>> coming week to pick up my son at the airport... some of my NB>>> shortcuts were automatically already part of the routing... :) BM>> They're remembering your preferences! :) NB>> I doubt it... at least one of them I've never mentioned to AAA, as NB>> far as I can recall, and now don't use because I'm not using the NB>> route it goes to... :) BM> That would be a good reason not to use that shortcut!! That's what I figure.... NB>> I went back before leaving on the trip, and tweaked the route some... NB>> Got a different counselor... and the shortcut I do still use that was NB>> on the first routing wasn't on the second... so maybe it has to do NB>> more with who is putting in the routing... or how Google is feeling NB>> that day... BM> Or both! I haven't noticed so much with using the Maps option but BM> with the search feature the sequence of the words makes a difference in BM> outcome. I don't generally use either... but I suppose that could be a factor... NB>>>> Nah... that takes one WAY out of the way... I'm all for efficiency... NB>>>> which usually means avoid toll roads, look for the straightest back NB>>>> roads... and don't attract the attention of any gung-ho troopers... ;) BM>>> We like to watch _Cops_ and that type of show and a lot of BM>>> the stops are for sliding through stop signs and tail lights/break BM>>> lights and license plate lights being out. Nice to be told, but then BM>>> seems like should be that (so been told now get going) but usually BM>>> ends up with a rip-apart car search and the driver, several passengers BM>>> and the dog being hauled off. Of course would be boring TV if "your BM>>> license plate light is out" "Oh! I'll get it fixed" "OK, bye!". NB>>> Obviously the license plate light out is a reason to stop a possibly NB>>> suspicious car... probably do have guidelines as to what constitutes NB>>> harassment vs legitimate.... BM>> Apparently I don't drive 'suspiciously' as my turn signal was out for BM>> over a month. (Thought was just the bulb, ended up being the socket BM>> was corroded.) NB>> You at least didn't attract any attention... :) I was thinking more NB>> a certain make/model/color car being looked for, and somewhat meeting NB>> that description... BM> Yes, I wasn't concerned about it: bulbs burn out, Actually I was more BM> concerned with not being able to fully signal my intentions ==> put BM> the blinker on to let the driver behind me I was going to turn soon and BM> so might be a good idea to slow down because I probably will. BM> ...Nothing happened, no close calls. :) That worked out ok then... :) I had a daytrip home and back to camp in the middle of that last trip, had a doctor appt I couldn't move... on the way back to the camp, a deer ran in front of the car, connecting with the passenger side corner, and smashed the headlight assembly, including the turn signal... it's in the shop now, insurance covers it, but for about a week, I was driving it with no front signal... the back one worked, but fast.... just a bit of annoyance... Neither of us was hurt, the car kept driving (I drove another 400 or so miles before I left it at the collision shop), but at the moment, I'm driving a rental until things are fixed... also bent the hood (which still opens and closes fine, though) and a bit of the front of the fender, and knocked out the grill... Car kept telling me that multiple bulbs had failed and needed replacing... like I needed to be told... NB>>>> Was it at all near what might have become the construction at some NB>>>> future date....? BM>>> Maybe by a mile or three. I think it was selected because technically BM>>> the shortest route (I-74 and the Google Maps selected were essentially BM>>> side-by-side). NB>>> Still sounds like they were just a little early on avoiding NB>>> construction by their routing.... BM>> So maybe I was a test to see how well the suggested detour would BM>> work?! NB>> Now that's another possibility.... BM> "Well according to his phone he didn't use our suggestion!" How inconsiderate of you... BM>> LIS in another message in this packet, the very top layer where we BM>> planted the flowers is dry and even cracking a little (not sure why BM>> didn't also mulch); when dug the holes to plant the soil was moist. BM>> Right now the roots of the new plants are still only as long as the BM>> selling pots allowed - haven't had time to grow and extend into the BM>> moist soil. NB>> Hopefully they'll reach the moist soil before they dry up... :) BM> Well lately the poor plants don't know what to do: has been in the BM> mid-50's first thing in the morning, getting into the upper 70's to BM> mid-80's. Past several days has rained just enough to keep the upper BM> layer of soil moist; tonight they're predicting heavier storms. Early BM> next week more on-and-off rain and upper 70's, then the latter part of BM> next week "the three H's: Hazy, Hot and Humid" with temperatures BM> getting to the low 90's and heat index into the 100's. ...Well, was BM> nice just having window fan cooling off up here! I guess that summer has officially arrived now, in more ways than one.... ttyl neb .... MAC error msg: "Like dude, something went wrong"SEEN-BY: 1/1 452 .