Subj : Re: food, etc To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Mon Sep 02 2019 01:13:00 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 27-Aug-2019 09:58 <=- -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 13-Aug-2019 10:24 <=- NB>>> Replying 11:25am on 23 July, from home... :) BM>> And probably no e-post card unless one lives some place semi-famous! NB>> Unless one considers the message a form of e-post card... BM> That could work: just don't write into the address section! Not likely to do it by accident... and the subject line doesn't hold all that much... ;) BM>>> Makes sense. Won't be in constant use but there when needed. NB>>> It was sorta in constant use... I left it on, and used the blanked NB>>> screen (still backlit) as a nightlight in the camp/cabin each NB>>> week... ;) Worked nicely... ;) BM>> That works! I 'noticed' in Vienna at the hotel my laptop put out a BM>> relatively large amount of light until it went to sleep ==> rooms had BM>> the lights off but could see the glow of the laptop's screen in the BM>> main room from the bedroom once my eyes accomodated to the dark. NB>> My laptop doesn't really go to sleep... it just blanks the screen... NB>> so it really does output a fair bit of light in a darkened room... :) BM> Mine is set to shut the display off after 20 or 30 minutes. At the BM> hotel could see a definite 'nightlight glow' in the next room. After BM> the half-hour it got really dark in there. I imagine it did... dunno if mine has a setting for shutting off the display entirely or not... BM>> Had a sort of nightlight in the bedroom: LED on a flexible ~14" BM>> 'stick'. Powered from 5v USB port, so good U.S. or Europe with the BM>> correct adapter. Will have to look for a brighter one. NB>> Not quite enough lumens with the one you have, eh...? BM> Nope. And not sure I can find the lumens it has to get a starting BM> point. ...Could get a regular night light but this BM> light-on-a-flexible-stick is sort of handy as can roll up and pack ==> BM> maybe two-thirds the size of a deck of cards, ¬" thick, and hollow in BM> the center so can pack a 5v adapter inside the hollow. Does sound handy... Is there some sort of device that can measure the lumens for your LED...? BM>> I used the laptop in Vienna (left behind when did the three-day side- BM>> vacation to South Austria) for daily journal notes and 'homework BM>> assignments' from my Mother and/or Aunt ==> stuff would come up like BM>> "so who is ?" and we were trying to remember the name of a BM>> female movie star who during WWII was part of the Dutch Resistance. BM>> Fortunately I had planned ahead a bit and copied a lot of documents BM>> and letters I had sent to my Mother to the laptop so when got back to BM>> the hotel was able to look it up that way. BTW, was Audrey Hepburn. NB>> Ah. So you were just looking at stuff you'd already stored on NB>> the computer, not checking for the info on the web... BM> Both. Had copied in some stuff from the computer here and also looked BM> up some stuff (Google.AT - the Austrian version, which does ask if I BM> wanted the information in English). Probably could have found the BM> "Audrey Hepburn" answer from a Google search, just was easier for me BM> to use the documents from home as I knew the answer was in there. OK. :) BM>> Something like that! Someday when the opportunity arises will have to BM>> ask. Probably still depends on personal preferences, but would be BM>> interesting to see how lecture note-taking has changed in 40-50 years! BM>> ("What's a 'notebook paper'?" ) NB>> In 12-15 years or so, you could ask Autumn.... Maybe less, NB>> if you ask about highschool classes rather than college... ;) BM> If I wait the dozen of so years may as well wait another four or five! BM> Think this thread will be going still? Who knows... ;) BM>>> Some people have a better sense of direction, some just know the area. BM>>> ...Others could get lost on their way to the end of the block. NB>>> I'm generally in one of the first two categories... and I know others NB>>> that are definitely in the latter... Or at least they claim to NB>>> be... Generally I've found that everyone has some sort of sense of NB>>> direction in their own home territory... :) BM>> True. I won't claim to have a fantastic sense of direction but don't BM>> get lost because follow the signs. Here at home generally don't use BM>> signs as familiar with the area and tend to use landmarks. NB>> Signs and landmarks are both good and useful... :) BM> Except when giving directions and the traveller's joke "where the old BM> schoolhouse used to be"! ...I gave directions to the house and part BM> was "turn left on - there will be a yellow fire hydrant on the BM> corner". No, they didn't paint the hydrant but I had forgotten BM> the hydrant was right at where they were to turn, not 50 or 100 feet. BM> They commented they had sort of slammed on the brakes at the turn. BM> (Not really hit the brakes, but was a fast slow down for the turn.) Well, one does need to keep track of the details... NB>>> It's a Volvo, after all... I've got it back now... took it for NB>>> the last trip for the family camping... :) It came mighty close to NB>>> being considered totalled, though.... cost of repairs came close to NB>>> book value of the car... guess the deer had better stay out of my way NB>>> from now on...! BM>> Bet the deer's family is saying it better keep out of the way of BM>> those super-fast gigantic turtles scooting along on those hard trails! BM>> (Cars on streets/highways.) NB>> As long as it learned the lesson... BM> Hopefully! ...Daryl's going to insert the joke about how do deer know BM> to cross the highway at the sign? Only if he notices... Odd thing, though, most of my encounters with deer have been places where there haven't been those warning signs.... never seem to see deer where the warning is, either, generally... NB>> I was thankful that we've not had anything since like that in the NB>> second half of July.... the highs haven't been higher than the upper NB>> 80s at worst, although there has still been some very humid days NB>> with that... And we've had nicely cool days and nights now for over NB>> a week, here at the end of August... what's predicted for the rest NB>> of the week still isn't going to be more than low 80s, and lows NB>> mostly in the 60s still... BM> Getting to be Fall-like temperatures: 64ø this morning, think it was BM> 58ø yestrday morning. Afternoons still getting into the low 80's. I BM> turned off the window air conditioner here in the Computer Room and BM> opened up the window -- the one on the other end! -- and with the BM> window fan has been comfortable. We've had a few nights that got down into the 50's... the house has cooled off nicely to about 70ø.... :) A couple days the highs were only in the low 70s so I just left the window open all day... And ended up closing the window in the wee hours as it was a bit too chilly... :) BM>> Was listening to Radio Wien on the TV and they were off BM>> the air for a while, came back on, then off for numerous shorter BM>> periods. Lights never flickered. NB>> So at least where you were wasn't losing power... :) BM> Right. And I'm spoiled here at the house with back-up lighting -- BM> nothing at the hotel room! Cellphone does have a flashlight function BM> so would have used that -- knew approximately where it was. Mine doesn't have a flashlight as such, but when at full light, it's bright enough to function as one... just have to keep putting it back there... ;) ttyl neb .... Speed kills! 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