Subj : Re: Stormy To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Aug 30 2019 00:17:56 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 24-Aug-2019 11:51 <=- BM>> While I was gone it did get into the low 100's; a few days later BM>> Vienna did have a hot spell in the 90's. Unusually hot for them; BM>> usually just into the 80's. NB>> I did hear that Europe was having extremely hot weather for them... NB>> we've had highs in the mid to high 80s here, earlier this week, but NB>> starting today we have a nice shift to highs in the 70s and lows in NB>> the sleepable 50s... and a lot less humidity finally... :) BM> Yes, similar here: nice to be able to shut off the air conditioning! BM> Highs the latter half of the week into the very low 80's and overnight BM> into the 50's. Supposed to continue into next week. :) Looks like BM> about ten degrees warmer for the Vienna forecast. Are you still keeping track of theirs...? :) Ours is staying pretty bearable.... some days into the low 80s, but mostly mid to high 70s, and lows in the 60s and 50s... lets us cool off the house overnight... :) And the house hasn't been getting over 75 anymore.... Much nicer... :) NB>>> You might find playing around with a synthesizer fun... electronically NB>>> changing sounds and all... :) BM>> If I had music-playing ability I might find it interesting. Have BM>> heard some 'radically different' interpretations of popular and some BM>> more classical/traditional pieces and sort of marvel at how they came BM>> up with the altered version. NB>> It might be mostly the work of the electronics... I don't really know NB>> all that much about the nuts and bolts of it myself... I'm more into NB>> the original instruments, myself... :) BM> I tend to go more with the original also though there are some BM> modifications have caught my attention. And some which have elicited BM> a "what did you do that for?!". I'm sure.... NB>>> You aren't far off.... It was used, btw, in a movie where it was NB>>> suppposed to be sexy/sensuous... haven't seen the movie, though, so I NB>>> don't know how effective it was.... BM>> And of course what was thought to be sexy 'back then' is now thought BM>> to be rather mundane now. OTOH I prefer leaving things to the BM>> imagination as opposed to the overly graphic presentations. NB>> I'm thinking it probably wasn't too awfully graphic... the name of the NB>> movie was "10", IIRC... BM> Ah! "Bo Derek" is about all I remember; didn't see. Right. I didn't see it either, only heared talk about it... :) NB>>> Spoken like a veteran procrastinator... But with valid NB>>> justification all the same.... ;) BM>> Hmmm: 'justifiable procrastination'! :) I see no reason to do BM>> potenial harm to myself if I can avoid it. And sometimes BM>> waiting/delaying has resulted in a better outcome. Sometimes, not BM>> always. NB>> Yup. Been there, too... ;) BM> Current 'big project' is trimming out the dead in the Burning Bush in BM> the back corner. Portions had died last Spring -- more from the cold BM> Winter though all the rain in the Spring probably didn't help. Also BM> appears there are two shrubs mixed together - hadn't noticed before BM> though sort of explains why some portions turned red in the Fall. Nothing wrong with that... just pretend you intended it that way, for the variety... ;) ttyl neb .... Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter: Eskimo pi --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .