Subj : Songs was: Stormy To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Aug 30 2019 10:36:00 Hi Nancy! -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 24-Aug-2019 11:51 <=- BM>> And now my turn to catch up! Almost lunch time as I start this on BM>> Monday August 12. Have been away from home for a month visiting my BM>> Mother in New Hampshire and then off to visit my Aunt and BM>> family/friends and Austria and Slovakia. (Some details in a message to BM>> ALL at the beginning of this packet.) NB>> Yes, I saw that message, and replied to it... ;) I'm working on this NB>> first set of messages on Thurs Aug 22, in the evening... as usual, even NB>> though I've been home since the 16th, things have been busy, so this NB>> slipped... BM> Not bad: this is the morning of the 24th, so only two days by that BM> math. More like one day as your reply was probably available some time BM> yesterday, I just didn't download until this morning. NB> We're getting back into the proper rhythm... at least for the NB> moment... it's Thursday the 29th... and I've answered another NB> three sets of messages in the meantime, so not too bad.... :) Impressive! Morning of the 30th here so that portion is caught up. BM>> I brought a (USB) mouse with me again this year. I have a tendancy to BM>> touch the touchpad while I'm typing and some interesting things BM>> happen! Turned off the touchpad and took care of those issues! ...Did BM>> remember to turn the touchpad back on before flying -- could just see BM>> the Airport Security folks for whatever reason needing me to boot and BM>> run the computer and I'd be unable because of needing the mouse which I BM>> packed in the luggage! (Never had such an issue, but one never knows!) NB>> True, one never knows.... not using any GUI interface makes my life NB>> easier, I can just turn the thing on, and type away... ;) BM> Yes, good and bad points to all options. LISB4, there are some BM> functions I find a lot easier to do using the command line. Then BM> there are those items where clicking a button is soooo much easier! BM> All depends! NB> And a lot depends on what one is used to doing... :) LIS some time back, I started with MS-DOS 2.11 so command line is sort of the base. Clicking the icons is just a convenience, though with the cell phone I have no desire to attempt to command line it! ...Some time back did accidentally find Linux will do some GUI/command line stuff: drag the icon of the drive or file to the prompt and the full pathname (and filename) will magically appear! Handy (for me) for functions like copying a file to or from a thumbdrive, etc. BM>> The webcams have been reconnected (yea!) -- found that when I was in BM>> Vienna and was chatting with the hotel reception staff one evening BM>> about various things. Somehow we got on to the flooding in downtown BM>> Davenport (IA) so I showed them some pictures -- made them sad and I BM>> felt I needed something to perk them up so showed the (static) pictures BM>> of the mother eagle feeding the two eaglets. Also 'discovered' the BM>> distance between the two sites is about the same: the downtown flooding BM>> is abour 5 miles / 8 kilometers downriver from my house and the eagle's BM>> nest is about 5 mi / 8 km upriver from the house! NB>> Nice discoveries... :) Glad they got the webcams working again... :) NB>> I'm guessing the nest is empty now....? BM> Every time I've check the nest is empty, but then by the time I get BM> around to checking the eagles are probably looking for food. ...And BM> for whatever reason lately one or the other (and just now both) camera BM> feeds have expired -- noted a 2018 date in the error. NB> Sounds like they still are having some issues there.... Just checked: both cameras are running but nobody home -- eagles must still be on their summer vacation before school starts! ...Thought the picture had frozen as no movement, then a bug zoomed by. It is rather still out (no breeze, no leaves moving). ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... "Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a few mistakes." --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .