Subj : I'm back! To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Mon Oct 07 2019 09:37:00 Hi Nancy! -=> 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 subject 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. NB> I try to at least notice as I'm setting up the reply.. especially NB> to make sure I shouldn't be changing it in some way to bring it NB> up to date... That seems like a good idea! I might have to try it some time!! 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.... NB> Hmmm... guess who took it, then... Fortunately I've not had NB> any of those.... I think my ISP must be filtering out all of NB> that... :) I haven't seen any in ages, and yes, it appears the ISPs do a reasonably good job in filtering. Oddly the e-mail account I have via CenturyLink (telephone company) seems to get the least spam, then G-mail, then MSN, but also taking into consideration the amount and type of overall mail each account receives, so probably exposure of the address. ...No idea if that double-lined address I have in my signature here makes any difference; seemed like a good idea: easy to understand by humans, not so easy by the bots. 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! NB> Actually my pocket calendar works out fine... what I refer to as NB> my auxillary brain.... :) I had "spare brains" at the store: notebooks I created when I was in various positions to help keep track of information. A couple I had in the Store Office were still in use when I returned several years later! As for the pocket calendar I had one also. Now use the one in the cell phone as generally with me if I have to go some place. OTOH we still have the paper calendars: one at my computer desk and one hanging on the refrigerator. The paper version is still very useful! 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. NB> No, he had been working in Turkey, and came back for a few months NB> to take care of some of the loose ends he'd left last time NB> (thought he'd be gone only a year or less, and it ended up being NB> almost 4 years) and to earn some money that would have value NB> elsewhere in the world (Turkish lira are only worth anything in NB> Turkey)... Now he'll be flying back to Turkey for a couple of NB> months and then off to South Africa for a certification course NB> for his boating career.... He's busy! BM> And if a car isn't working right not a good idea to BM> take it on a longer trip - mom knows that! NB> Very much so... which is why she ended up renting a car for this NB> last trip.... ;) My clutch is getting iffy, and I decided that NB> putting 1300+ miles on it wouldn't be that good an idea... nor NB> did I relish possibly being stranded 600 miles or so from home... NB> ;) Nope: not a good way to spend time! At least if something happens close to home can call and get a ride. Plus can get home - at least not stuck watching a black and white TV in a dust-bunnied hotel room! BM>> MultiMail does create a pointer file which does make 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. NB> If Bluewave does anything like that, I've not known about it... NB> as far as I've known, the .ptr file came from the door, and is NB> just there in the packet.... Hmm: now that you mention it you're probably right, at least on the QWK side of things. REP -- now not so sure. ...That was one good thing about the older/slower computers: could read the messages as they scrolled on the screen! 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! NB> If there are international flights direct into O'Hare or any NB> other inland airport, there would need to be some sort of customs NB> there... I suppose I could ask some of my friends/family that are NB> Frequent Flyers... they'd probably know all about that sort of NB> thing... :) They're probably know. Know Swiss (airline) flies to Chicago: my in-brain joke would be to tell my Mother I'll meet her at Zurich. (One flight is ORD-ZUR, a different flight is BOS-ZUR. (I did check: I just sort of assumed it was CHI-BOS-ZUR - nope!) 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. NB> Probably... I remember doing the crossings into Canada at NB> Niagara Falls years ago, when one didn't have to show any ID, NB> just look honest... ;) Those were the days! Now just about need official identification to walk down the street. 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!! NB> Yup. I think there's still a wood desk under here! 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! NB> We have a guy at church that grows his beard every fall for the NB> winter, and then shaves it off come late spring for the summer... NB> Richard just keeps his year-round... :) The winter beard isn't that uncommon -- I don't know if it helps keep one warmer; probably some. OTOH where they ice up.....! BM> OTOH today (September 24) the forecast to get into the low-to-mid BM> 80's again. NB> Things were pretty warm there for a while, all over... ;) Was in NB> the 90s in North Carolina when I was there... the forecast had NB> been to be in the high 80s... Now it's pretty chilly here....and NB> up at the Pond where I head next... The highs have been in the low 60's the last week or so and pretty much continuing for the up-coming week. TV news forecast this morning indicated midweek in low 70's but ansiweather saying upper 60's. We'll see. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Nov 1 1870: US Weather Bureau began as wx dept for US Army Signal Corps --- 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) .