Subj : Re: Shopping & Christmas was:
To   : Barry Martin
From : Nancy Backus
Date : Fri Aug 30 2019 00:32:56

-=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 24-Aug-2019 11:51 <=-

 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.
 NB>> Exactly... preparedness is good, doesn't mean one is wishing for
 NB>> the event...  <G>
 BM> Right! And LIS some time back it seems the power company has been able
 BM> to do something to reduce the effects of lightning strikes on the
 BM> distribution system.  Seems years ago if there was a lightning storm
 BM> the power would constantly/frequently glitch; recently the power stays
 BM> normal.

Definately an improvement... :)
 
 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'!
 NB> Could be... Hard to hang any sort of decorations on a stick, though... :)
 BM> True, though part of the 'Festivus' joke was the opposite of the
 BM> Christmas decorating.

Oh, ok.... Not being a TV viewer, I didn't exactly follow Seinfeld
either...  :)

ttyl       neb

.... Locked coathanger in the car.  Good thing I had a key!

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