Subj : Do Not Call To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Oct 16 2019 10:52:00 Hi Nnancy! Welcome back again! NB> And now answering from the Pond, 10 September at about 12:15am NB> (yes, that's just after midnight)... got up here this afternoon, NB> had just enough time to unpack stuff before a friend came over to NB> work on our Pond Directory... it was needing final tweaks before NB> we publish... our fall Board meeting is Saturday... ok, by the NB> time you get this it will be was Saturday.... ;) Then I went and NB> visited with another friend that I'd not been able to connect NB> with all the previous visits this year... So here I am, answering NB> a couple messages before going to bed... ;) NB> Editing to say... I guess I was already partly asleep, as that NB> should be October not September there.... Or that was some long weekend! Sounds like you got a lot of sork and fun stuff done. NB>> I've been out of town, and Tiny's hasn't been responding, even NB>> though I've had access, so took a break from answering here... NB>> Currently about 7:50 am on 30 September, and answering from Wake NB>> Forest NC (just north of Raleigh).... BM> Apparently fixed whatever problem there as - sometimes things appear BM> working properly from the SysOp's side but not on the User's side. NB> Turned out that I'd not updated the port number in the dialing NB> stack on the laptop, so it couldn't connect... that will be fixed NB> before my next trip with expected access.... :) I had wondered NB> if that was the issue, but didn't have access to anything that NB> could confirm, or give me the right port... Yes, usually better not to go randomly 'correcting' things. Over the years I have had various connection issues, most resolved by waiting for the other side to come back online, a handful by rebooting, and then a few where an updating was needed on my side. NB>>> They think we should believe them on that... ;) Both the hold NB>>> message and the scam/spammers play to our supposed credulity... ;) BM>> Yes; we tend to believe others even though we don't know who they are BM>> -- otherwise why would they take the time and effort to inform us? NB>> Guess there's not that much effort in simply having a recording NB>> keep replaying.... and much repetition is supposed to make it NB>> more believable.... ;) BM> Yes, recreate the format of a real/valid source to reinforce the BM> hoax's validity. LIS, we've gone to not answering the phone if we BM> don't recognize the number display on on the Caller ID. NB> Sometimes I'm just curious enough to pick up, just not say NB> anything until there's a real hello... but usually it just drops NB> the call on its own.... I've sometimes wondered if picking up the phone (so effectively answering) increases the spam, at least by that caller as identified as a number probably answered by a human (as less than the usual four rings when answered by an answering machine). BM>> remnants of whatever tropical storm/hurricane hit the Houston area BM>> earlier this week. Currently overcast; had some thunderstorms around BM>> 4 a.m. but only about a tenth of an inch of rain. Weekend's supposed BM>> to be rather soggy. NB>> Couple weeks later now, so you probably don't remember if it was or NB>> not... It's been in the 90s down here this weekend, but mostly NB>> we've been inside where things are air conditioned... no rain here... BM> I don't remember what? Do recall last weekend was rainy; enough BM> so the river levels were getting close to flood stage and though hasn't BM> rained this week locally it has to the north and all that water is BM> coming down and will cause local rivers to go over flood. Nothing BM> major like last Spring. but the usual low-lying areas will be flooded. NB> It's like the on-going issues here (Rochester) with the Lake NB> Ontario shoreline any time there's some rain and a bit extra NB> wind.... They announced on the local news this morning additional road closures on both sides of the Mississippi River, which is about two feet over flood stage. No major traffic re-routing like last Spring, just some lower-traffic neighbourhood streets, though they did show a four-lane road on the Illinois side with a car passing another and both kicking up some pretty impressive water rooster tails! BM> And 57ø this morning and that's close to the expected high; supposed to BM> be 41ø overnight. NB> Fall's here... ;) Yup! A lot of the trees I can see from my window up here are starting to turn colours. Still early for the Burning Bush in the back yard (the one I trimmed out the dead branches), but we're thinking the Burning Bush is what died and what's left is a wild shrub that got mixed in years ago. BM>>> (And of course I'm thinking of the automatic stuff here: "House UPS" BM>>> running some lights, plug-in emergency lighting for others.) ...Was BM>>> half-looking around when I visited and generally the outlets are in BM>>> the wrong place for the plug-in lights to do any good. NB>>> A little harder to set up emergency lighting for her, then... BM>> Yes. LIS (I think) she does have some, so not like she is going to be BM>> in the dark. Just I could enhance; she doesn't want it, so haven't. NB>> As long as the important places are lit, there's no need to go NB>> overboard, eh...? :) BM> Yes........ (Bit of worrying/concern about could be better, reliance BM> on flashlights -- the getting to a flashlight part...... See what BM> happens when one is a bit techy?!) NB> Yeah, one has more things to worry about.... ;) And I was just thinking bigger batteries! BM>>>> They were cleaning the lab that weekend and needed the outlet for the BM>>>> scrubber! NB>>>> Possibly.... Or maybe just had a brief power outage.... BM>>> A possibility. UPSs only last so long and generators don't always BM>>> power everything. Or just down for maintenance and took longer than BM>>> expected. NB>>> Probably no way for us to find out... :) BM>> Probably not, and doesn't make that much difference if we know or not: BM>> still unable to connect. Might learn what to do or not do: don't BM>> unplug that plug! Have backup power! (Etc.) NB>> And more important that the service (weather from graph.no) NB>> actually still is working, despite the short glitch... :) BM> Yes; short glitches are better than permanent outages! NB> SOW, this morning when I was doing the morning checkup, it wasn't NB> responding again... hopefully by the time I get home, it will be NB> back to normal... :) "Absense makes the user grow fonder?" BM>>>> Sort of like the 'secret communications' our generation has the BM>>>> teenagers don't know how to decode: cursive handwriting! NB>>>> Depends on how clear the writing is... although, true, some letters NB>>>> can look totally different.... just not the majority of them.... I NB>>>> think a clever teen should be able to easily decipher it... :) BM>>> Really clever to decipher some of mine! Not illegible but sometimes BM>>> close,plus I tend to use a lot of abbreviations and symbols. NB>>> Well, that is more cryptic than merely cursive... BM>>> Though I've been cursed at for my cryptic cursive! NB>>> Yours is obviously more of a challenge... ;) BM>> Sometimes!! NB>> It would appear... BM> Sometimes that is the problem: it appears, just isn't apparent! NB> Ummm..... ok.... 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