Subj : Re: I'm back! To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Sat Oct 05 2019 21:56:56 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 24-Sep-2019 11:48 <=- -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 06-Sep-2019 09:27 <=- NB>>> And the subject is appropriate, for me this time... BM>> Had to cancel and go back to find out what the sunject was: I don't BM>> see that information in the Reply Mode. NB>> Once I'm in the editor to actually reply, I don't see it either, or NB>> any of the header info except what goes into the quote header... NB>> But I can see it before I start to reply... :) BM> So same here; I tend not to pay attention to the subject headers when BM> addressed to me: more than likely something I'm interested in, BM> especially here. I try to at least notice as I'm setting up the reply.. especially to make sure I shouldn't be changing it in some way to bring it up to date... BM> My dot-com e-mail accounts -- that's different. BM> Which reminds me: I haven't heard from Crown Prince Wazoo recently and BM> I need the money as had an unexpected withdrawal.... Hmmm... guess who took it, then... Fortunately I've not had any of those.... I think my ISP must be filtering out all of that... :) BM>> And yes, it is your turn to be back! :) NB>> And now, almost time to be leaving again... ;) I leave Wednesday NB>> for about a week, back for about a week, and then gone for about NB>> another week... and just found out that the trip to deliver my son NB>> back to the airport will be in another week from that return... NB>> And that might be the end of this year's travel, finally... ;) BM> You definitely need a large calendar to keep track of your schedule! Actually my pocket calendar works out fine... what I refer to as my auxillary brain.... :) BM>>> Glad your son was able to spend time at The Pond with you. NB>>> He's still there for (probably) a couple more months... so he'll be NB>>> there when I go back up for my fall board meeting next month.... BM>> That's good. Hopefully comes down to visit you at the house before BM>> you go up to visit him at the Pond. NB>> Unfortunately not likely to happen, although he might make one quick NB>> trip down here before that final trip back to the airport... I'll get NB>> to see him anyway... but it's his dad that would miss out.... His NB>> Jeep might finally be behaving well enough for that long a trip now, NB>> but he's working at a grocery store up there now, trying to get the NB>> money he needs for the next part of his life.... so unless his shifts NB>> and days off align to make it possible for a four-hour each way trip NB>> here it won't work out.... BM> Ah - somehow I had the idea he was working in England and this was BM> vacation/holiday. No, he had been working in Turkey, and came back for a few months to take care of some of the loose ends he'd left last time (thought he'd be gone only a year or less, and it ended up being almost 4 years) and to earn some money that would have value elsewhere in the world (Turkish lira are only worth anything in Turkey)... Now he'll be flying back to Turkey for a couple of months and then off to South Africa for a certification course for his boating career.... BM> And if a car isn't working right not a good idea to BM> take it on a longer trip - mom knows that! Very much so... which is why she ended up renting a car for this last trip.... ;) My clutch is getting iffy, and I decided that putting 1300+ miles on it wouldn't be that good an idea... nor did I relish possibly being stranded 600 miles or so from home... ;) BM>> MultiMail does create a pointer file which does manke things somewhat BM>> easier to correct when something goes wrong. NB>> I don't think that it's Multimail that does it... it's usually NB>> the offline door on the bbs, not the offline reader, that creates NB>> the ptr file... BM> I have a pointer file in MultiMail's session work directory, so one BM> was created this morning when I started this packet. The offline BM> reader just extracts the message to read, then edits and sticks a reply BM> in where MultiMail can find it and stick it in the REP along with BM> pointer. ...Lots of details missing and I haven't delved into those BM> Black Boxes. If Bluewave does anything like that, I've not known about it... as far as I've known, the .ptr file came from the door, and is just there in the packet.... NB>>> What I was trying to say is that what qualifies that airport to be NB>>> international is that there are the short flights between it and a NB>>> similar small airport just across the border (the Seaway having the NB>>> border line midstream there)... BM>> Yes, though seems now would also have to have all the customs and BM>> immigration stuff to keep the border secure. I'm thinking more like BM>> the office here at the Quad City Internation Airport (Moline, IL) BM>> which also covers the Port of Moline -- which sounds really strange BM>> when I know there's not a federal border within a thousand miles. NB>> But you are on a waterway that has access to a federal border... NB>> I'm not really sure how they do handle the customs/immigration in NB>> these situations... might be something to research some time.... BM> Another hour, another project! I have briefly wondered about BM> having a customs port here, especially in the middle of the country. BM> Can't exclude middle of the country as Swiss (airlines, as well as BM> others) does have international flights to O'Hare (Chicago); runways BM> are too short, especially for takeoff, here. ...Yes, starting to get BM> more curious! Zurich to Chicago to Moline -- possible! If there are international flights direct into O'Hare or any other inland airport, there would need to be some sort of customs there... I suppose I could ask some of my friends/family that are Frequent Flyers... they'd probably know all about that sort of thing... :) BM>> Part of my problem comprehending this is I haven't done any 'small' BM>> customs/entry stuff in almost fifty years -- last was crossing in to BM>> Canada from New Hampshire in the early 70's. Think there was a little BM>> guard shack in the middle of the woods; don't remember having my BM>> parents having to show ID and I don't think I had any as before I BM>> drove. NB>> Back then, you only had to tell your citizenship, and things like NB>> how long had you been out of the country (or expect to be out, NB>> the other direction)... BM> Right - I don't recall too much as nothing all that remarkable. BM> Probably was told to let Dad do all the talking and just answer the BM> guard's question without embellishment. Probably... I remember doing the crossings into Canada at Niagara Falls years ago, when one didn't have to show any ID, just look honest... ;) BM> As I've implied in other messages, the distance from the Davenport BM> (IA) Municipal Airport to the Quad Cities International Airport in BM> Moline (IL) is about 15 miles. I suppose some business would charter BM> flights out of Davenport, especially if they were on that side of the BM> River. OTOH just as easy to take a commercial flight out of Moline. BM> ..Yup: someday some fun little bit of research! Yup, could be interesting... :) NB>>> Would there be a website that one could access here from the States NB>>> for the Swiss Travelers Information, maybe....? BM>> Oh probably. At this point no rush and my cousin had mentioned mobile BM>> phone (not 'cell' over there) purchase time cards process was going to BM>> change in October, so may affect pay phones also. Plus if I research BM>> later the information wil be fresher in my mind. NB>> Good point... ;) Just have to remember closer in that you DO want NB>> to research that... BM> There's a note. Now the big trick is to find the note in time!! Yup. BM>>> I shave the cheeks and neck and keep the remainder short. I don't BM>>> think I'd look good in a long beard. NB>>> To each his own... ;) BM>> Though have considered a slightly longer length -- never know! NB>> You could always grow it out some... and if you don't like it, it's NB>> easy enough to trim... ;) BM> Winter is coming up! We have a guy at church that grows his beard every fall for the winter, and then shaves it off come late spring for the summer... Richard just keeps his year-round... :) BM> OTOH today (September 24) the forecast to get into the low-to-mid BM> 80's again. Things were pretty warm there for a while, all over... ;) Was in the 90s in North Carolina when I was there... the forecast had been to be in the high 80s... Now it's pretty chilly here....and up at the Pond where I head next... ttyl neb .... A geological specimen in motion accumulates no deposits of lichen. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .