Subj : moving or not was: CFBBS To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Aug 14 2019 09:11:00 Hi Nancy! NB>> That's true... even though it appears that Tiny's bbs isn't NB>> messing with my date/timestamp, you'd still not see mine... maybe NB>> I should just make a practice of putting them inside the NB>> message.... Of course, it usually isn't all that important... ;) BM> Generally not that important. Previous message does have July 3rd and BM> 4th statements. And I don't journal so anything with a specific date BM> but nothing to remind me of what was going on wouldn't help. I do BM> date notes here: helps if they get out of sequence while shuffling BM> through. NB> I've been figuring that adding some sort of internal date-stamp NB> as to when I'm answering becomes especially helpful at times like NB> this, where I've been gone more than being home, and then it NB> overlaps with your month away... :) This is part of a humoungous NB> packet downloaded on the 10th when I got home from the second NB> trip, taken with me when I left on the 13th for the third trip... NB> and then answered more at leisure, since you'd be gone into NB> August.... You'll get the whole chunk as part of your humoungous NB> pile to deal with when you return... So my internal NB> datestamp gives a little bit of context for you... :) A bit. :) LIS some time before I left for Vienna, I had played some to try to correct the timestamp issue but (obviously) without success. At that time mainly looking for a setting within Wildcat!; this time I'll probably look for a setting (switch) in PKZip. ...But First! BM>> And same for other shared transports. I think some of the pipelines BM>> are shared: AFAIK don't have a Shell crude oil pipeline and a Casey's BM>> crude oil pipe (latter is a regional brand). ...Read some time back BM>> the crude oil source was sometimes the same (say, from Alaska oil BM>> fields) and transported through the same pipeline and somehow separated BM>> at the far ends -- something else to check out in my free time! NB>> That would make sense.... Also, regional brands might not refine their NB>> own oil into gasoline, but get it from other/major refineries.... :) BM> True, though I'm only vaguely familiar with the details so off to BM> Google-land! NB> (snip) BM> The next paragraph is important: BM> The point is that the refineries have contracts to supply gasoline, BM> diesel, fuel oil, aircraft fuel, etc., tailored to the specific BM> requirements of that customer. BM> So to make the example easier we'll just say all gasoline starts off BM> at the same place but is refined, processed, etc., differently before BM> gets to the local pump. NB> Which does make sense... :) And the tailoring is what feeds the NB> marketing of the differences between the different companies' NB> products... Yes. I don't know the details but generally it all starts with a pool of squished dinosaurs. I'd suppose there are differences dependant on what was squished, but probably essentially the same, so the processing is what makes the differences in the final product (heating oil, gasoline, etc.). BM>>> And there was something in the news a few days ago about train funding BM>>> in Illinois but at the time wasn't clear on how affecting the proposed BM>>> line for here. So the trains will continue, we just don't know where. NB>>> Just have to pay attention when it comes on the news.... and keep NB>>> your eyes open for when things do change... :) BM>> Nothing seen since, though doesn't mean nothing happening! NB>> Quite true.... just not hitting the news.... :) BM> Right. Maybe nothing did happen that day or week, maybe did but was BM> so minor only 'the research nerd in the corner' could find (^*), maybe BM> something did happen but overshadowed by another event..... NB> Or, as usual, the cogs grind slowly.... ;) IMO not necessarily a bad thing. I tend to be more concerned with 'knee-jerk legistation', those rule sand regulations passed within days or weeks of a usually catastrophic event. BM> (^*) On the 'research nerd', thinking of someone like the BM> person/people at law offices who comb the newspapers for the BM> bankruptcy, etc., announcements, go to the library and courthouse to BM> dig up details for a court case, etc., etc. I'll admit to enjoying a BM> bit of digging research every so often but not as a full-time job. NB> My nephew works for a title company... and that pretty much does NB> describe his job.... digging up all the details for the title NB> searches... :) He enjoys it, though... :) That's good! I tend to like doing in-depth researching but for myself or a personal link, and of something interesting to me. NB>>> I don't think that that happens all that often here... at least I NB>>> don't hear much about it happening... BM>> Probably a rarity, though years ago have experienced some rather BM>> narrow and probably short bridges out there where could probably BM>> happen. Here mostly happens with the larger semi's but also the BM>> mid-sized one-piece trucks. NB>> Some just aren't very friendly to the larger vehicles.... although NB>> they generally are fairly well marked in advance... BM> Yes, always have had short bridges, narrow bridges, and it seems they BM> have been marked. Hmm: even drive throughs: banks and credit unions BM> -- I don't recall seeing height signs but examples I can think of had BM> very high 'roofs'. The NcDonalds I go past frequently does have height BM> bars before one gets to the ordering area; no idea what happens if a BM> truck or camper hits the bar and tries to continue. NB> I don't know either.... probably not a particularly pretty sight, NB> though... I'm thinking the pretty camper starts to look ugly as the warning bar mangles it. The warning bars of the McDonald's I'm thinking of look to be relatively sturdy. 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