Subj : Re: nuts was: logs and To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sat Aug 24 2019 20:19:40 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 13-Aug-2019 10:24 <=- -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 02-Jul-2019 15:28 <=- NB>> Replying from Selkirk Shores SP, 18 July, 2:20pm... BM> Hmm -- maybe you created something new: an e-mail postcard! Somewhat... I guess it does give an idea where I've been off traveling to... as I answered from the different places... ;) 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 home NB>>> with no access, just working away at messages as I could... but NB>>> couldn't upload until I got myself back home... ;) I'm hoping to NB>>> get these answered before I leave again, but things have been NB>>> somewhat busy, so I've not been able to send every night... I'll NB>>> take stuff with me again when I leave again, so I'll just keep NB>>> whittling away at it... with gaps of transmission, of course... BM>> Just simply do when have the time. :) NB>> Which is, obviously, what I'm doing.... :) Only had two days home NB>> after the second trip before I had to leave again for here, so it all NB>> came with me... along with the news that you were off on your NB>> trek... :) Obviously no point in my rushing to answer your messages, NB>> since you won't be back until well after I get back to upload stuff, NB>> or even get caught up with what came in while I was away again... NB>> Eventually, we'll both catch up... BM> Eventually! I think I had close to 30 personal messages with this BM> packet and 250+ total messages. As always started with personal BM> messages and about halfway through those. "Good news" of sorts in BM> this morning's mail run was an empty packet so not further behind. Well, by then, I was away again... spent the better part of that week back up at the Pond... got home on Friday (16th), with a flat tire to deal with (driving on the space-saver)... still waiting for the replacement tire to come in, it had to be special ordered... BM> Was able to keep up with my dot-com email accounts while in Vienna for BM> the most part: some had portions blocked because of U.S./E.U. BM> agreements. (I can't access a newspaper site on the Illinois side but BM> I can access the sister newspaper site on the Iowa side and they're BM> owned by the same corporation.) Interesting. Generally when I'm gone I don't have any internet access, so emails also stack up for me at home while I'm away... 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. NB>> The two cordless phones we have now came as a set... previous ones NB>> had been one-offs but they all died before replacement... I could NB>> see getting another set to add in, and get a different directory NB>> set up as well, but that could get confusing... I think there would NB>> probably have to be some overlap, for Richard's sake (eg, my cell NB>> phone coded to my name so he knows it's me and not some random NB>> wireless caller)... BM> Yes, we've more or less memorized the how the display comes BM> up when friends call with their cell phones but have been tricked when BM> a spoofed number comes up that is similar. If I have the number with the right name in the phone's directory, that's how the caller ID will display, overriding the unhelpful or downright misleading ones, like Wireless Caller or some strange name (like Deanann Hall for my friend Joann, or Paul Chamberlin for my friend Tika)... The other caller IDs in the house show the bad display, the cordless set show the useful ID... :) BM> Some time ago I looked up BM> to see if could do something with the cell phone to make the correct BM> CID display -- nope: something to do with the cell company owns the BM> number and that's why it displays as it does. Big Black Box BM> explanation which I somewhat understood but boils down to "can't be BM> done". (I'm thinking it can be done, just a lot of work. Too bad.) Only thing I know to do is to have the local directory override what the phone company is sending... As for the company sending the proper identification, I'm sure that it would be possible, but I'd not doubt that it could be just involved enough that they'd not want to bother dealing with it... 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! NB>> I had a list posted... with name, number and speed dial number... NB>> some of the speed dials I had memorized, if I used them often NB>> enough... and I'd made the doctor ones the easy ones, 22, 33, 44 NB>> and 45... BM> Why am I thinking Daryl's going to reply " what a BM> figure!"?! Dunno... not that great a figure as it is... ;) BM> I've never gotten around to using memory dial. I have used the BM> feature: person recently called, step through the Caller ID display and BM> hit the 'call back' option, but as far as "my Mother is Memory 4", BM> nope. ('Memory 4' is fair: I'm 'Memory 7' at her place!!) The cordless ones have a 5 number redial list... keeps up to 5 numbers last dialed... which can be helpful for the frequently called numbers... I've also gone down the CallerID display to use the callback option... that works too... :) 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! NB>> Isn't it though...!!! BM> Did and didn't help that and a few other projects with me being gone a BM> month. Telephone/electrical probably wouldn't have been done because BM> of the heat. If I'm not going to work in the Storage Area because it's BM> probably over 120ø in there I'm not sending someone else in there BM> unless it's an emergency and then I'm providing fans to ventilate and BM> monitoring for heat stroke, etc. (Years ago I had installed lights.) Yeah... being gone does put a crimp in doing things at home... but as you say, probably the weather/temps would have kept that one still on hold anyway.... Now that fall is coming, maybe things will line up to do that project... :) 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'. NB>> There's another project for you... instilling the need.... BM> I've noticed on the phone and during the visit my Mother doesn't want BM> to be bothered: more or less if it works leave it alone, even though BM> advised and sometimes agress an upgrade would be better/more BM> convenient. Suppose part of that is 'old age complacency'. ...Well, BM> had misspelled that and the definition came up and not what I'm BM> intending, or at least with that definition. More the "leave it alone, BM> it works, so good enough". I'll admit to some of that too, but not to BM> her degree. Or at least my interpretation of her degree. Being satisfied with the status quo, even if it isn't necessarily the most efficient etc... ;) Yup, I'm getting there, too... some things just don't need to be changed just because someone else thinks they have a better solution... ;) ttyl neb .... Definition: Protein -- In favor of young people. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .