Subj : Re: Shopping & Christmas was: To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Aug 23 2019 00:42:54 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 12-Aug-2019 17:23 <=- BM>>> Well that things a little noisy around here! Power dimmed twice - BM>>> UPSs chirping away. I was downstairs refilling my coffee; didn't hear BM>>> anything. Didn't even reset the clocks on the stove nor microwave. NB>>> So it wasn't until you went back up that you heard the chirping.... NB>>> just a quick glitch, I guess... :) BM>> Well that was poorly phrased!! Did hear the UPSs chirping, meant I BM>> didn't hear anything outside which possibly could have caused the BM>> outage. Ended up was somwehere in town which caused about 1700 people BM>> to loose power for several hours. NB>> Ahhh... and you just got the edge of it with a quick glitch... BM> Yes, don't want to be in a power failure though am somewhat ready for BM> one. Exactly... preparedness is good, doesn't mean one is wishing for the event... NB>>>> That way the bag was labeled instead of the stocking... so it made it NB>>>> easier to collect the stockings afterwards and not have things get NB>>>> mixed up.... :) BM>>> Yes, keeps things simple. NB>>> Exactly... :) BM>> A lot of times simple is better and easier. ...Not to go too far and BM>> make everything simple: here's a stick - our Christmas tree! BM>> ('Festivus', anyone?!) NB>> Shades of Charlie Brown.... ;) BM> Possibly the Festivus stick-tree in _Seinfeld_ was based on the BM> Charlie Brown tree. Or just some tired tree decorator who put up the BM> center of an artifical tree and thought 'this is enough'! Could be... Hard to hang any sort of decorations on a stick, though... :) BM>> If the stocking gets damaged somehow -- not a big deal as compared to BM>> something like the hand-crocheted ones Great-great-great-grandmother BM>> made. A little sentimental as they were the red-and-green trimmed BM>> stockings used for years.... NB>> If only one was damaged, it would hardly even be noticed... As it was, NB>> I don't think we ever did have any damaged, or even wear out... :) BM> You did say they were sturdy work socks! Right. :) ttyl neb .... In order to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .