Subj : Re: nuts was: logs and To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu Jul 18 2019 18:20:20 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 02-Jul-2019 15:28 <=- Replying from Selkirk Shores SP, 18 July, 2:20pm... BM>> Ah! There you are! Must have been a blockage in the communication BM>> links somewhere as has been rather quiet around here. NB>> As you saw further in that pile, it was because I was away from NB>> home with no access, just working away at messages as I could... NB>> but couldn't upload until I got myself back home... ;) I'm NB>> hoping to get these answered before I leave again, but things NB>> have been somewhat busy, so I've not been able to send every NB>> night... I'll take stuff with me again when I leave again, so NB>> I'll just keep whittling away at it... with gaps of transmission, NB>> of course... BM> Just simply do when have the time. :) Which is, obviously, what I'm doing.... :) Only had two days home after the second trip before I had to leave again for here, so it all came with me... along with the news that you were off on your trek... :) Obviously no point in my rushing to answer your messages, since you won't be back until well after I get back to upload stuff, or even get caught up with what came in while I was away again... Eventually, we'll both catch up... NB>>>> In my cell phone, I merely listed all the different numbers I'd NB>>>> seen our PCP office use to contact us, with their name, so NB>>>> whenever any of those numbers calls my cell, it comes up as NB>>>> them... Can't do that with the landline, it would use up too much NB>>>> of the directory.... BM>>> True, plus with the landline would have to enter a directory listing BM>>> for each phone and some don't have that feature. NB>>> Exactly... My directory each is a separate entry, and there are only NB>>> 50 slots, one of which is needed to add a leading 1 for a long-distance NB>>> callback.... and that's only with the cordless set... the rest don't NB>>> have any directory.... BM>> So 49 slots. depending on the number of phones one has can become BM>> quite a big job to enter all that data in! NB>> Yup, 49 slots... but the directory is stored in the main base, NB>> not the handsets, so it's just the one directory, which either of NB>> the handsets can access... and that's for the landline... :) BM> One common base is better, or at least for that option. Here have BM> several cordless phones but all have separate bases. Just never got BM> around to making them 'common'. Also the little quirks of each: one BM> will have an easier to read display but another will have a better BM> speakerphone. The two cordless phones we have now came as a set... previous ones had been one-offs but they all died before replacement... I could see getting another set to add in, and get a different directory set up as well, but that could get confusing... I think there would probably have to be some overlap, for Richard's sake (eg, my cell phone coded to my name so he knows it's me and not some random wireless caller)... NB>> The other, wired-in, extensions don't have their own directories, NB>> nor access to the cordless base's directory... We mostly do use NB>> the cordless handsets, though... BM> Right. I think the phone I have up here is the only wired phone with BM> a directory but it has nothing programmed -- either have the number BM> memorized or easier and faster to look it up on the list. It's BM> speakerphone I use frequently, though mainly to do on-hook dialing BM> and/or while waiting for 'the next available customer service BM> representative whose call is important to me' (!), I've been tempted to use the speaker option for that sort of thing... but the only problem is that their background "music" conflicts with the music I'm trying to listen to... So I usually just hold it a little ways away, so I can just hear if someone actually picks up... NB>> Before we had our phone number stolen and then returned, I had NB>> also set up a 30-number speed dial with the phone company.... NB>> that got erased in the fracas, and I have yet to re-set that one NB>> up... a lot of effort, and I've not had any really good time NB>> available to set aside to do that yet... BM> I'd have to look at a list to see what their speed dial number was! I had a list posted... with name, number and speed dial number... some of the speed dials I had memorized, if I used them often enough... and I'd made the doctor ones the easy ones, 22, 33, 44 and 45... BM>>> Do need to get my NCID project going so shows up on the Caller ID - BM>>> built-in or separate box. That one is a little ways down the list..... NB>>> Yup, lots of other But First projects... :) BM>> Yes; the NCID project was mainly held up because the telephone or BM>> power line needed to be moved (probably power because there's antenna BM>> and networking feeds in the same run), but that delayed because of the BM>> coldness in the Storage Area, then the other hiring of a electrician BM>> to do a few other projects was never gotten to..... NB>> Now it will be the heat of the Storage Area... and getting to NB>> hiring of the electrician.... BM> Yes. This year is just zipping by! Isn't it though...!!! BM>> I'll also admit to not always liking change -- sometimes because the BM>> new way has drawbacks, sometimes just no real reason to change. As for BM>> my Mother's phone and equipment, some of it may be sentimental: Dad did BM>> it or had something to do with it. Not a bad reason not to change. NB>> Could be... You might be able to set her up a system that still NB>> incorporates that handset.... but adds in some Caller ID phones, with NB>> a built-in directory, so that she could get used to it bit by bit... NB>> I'm sure that it would require some ahead of time discussion with NB>> her as to why and how it could make her life easier... one doesn't NB>> have to answer the precise phone handset that is telling her who is NB>> is calling, if she decides she wants to talk to them.... BM> Correct. First would be to instill the need. The inital problem is BM> 'works fine' and 'I don't need that', though sometimes after months BM> the 'don't need' slowly turns into a 'well, it would be handy BM> sometimes'. There's another project for you... instilling the need.... ttyl neb .... Aibohphobia - The real or imagined fear of palindromes --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .