Subj : Health Was: Nuts To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Oct 16 2019 10:52:00 Hi Nancy! -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 05-Oct-2019 08:44 <=- NB>> Continuing on afternoon of 4 Oct.... BM> That was only yesterday! NB> There will be more of a time-lapse this time, as I won't be home NB> until the 15th.... and this is only the 11th October... at about NB> noon... And being replied to on the morning of October 16th.... BM>>> And LIS in other messages, just too hot out there to do extensive yard BM>>> work. One thing to work up a sweat, another to just be standing and BM>>> dripping profusely! NB>>> For sure.... no need to put yourself at risk, either.... BM>> Agree. Not doing a marathon or the like. In those events probably BM>> would be someone around to assist or at least get help should I BM>> collapse. In the back yard (or even the front yard as a low-traffic BM>> street) could be baking and attracting flies for some time. NB>> Good reason to wait for better weather conditions... or at least NB>> someone around to make sure that you'd be noticed sooner than NB>> later... :) BM> Every so often I get a brief throught of what would happen if I fell/ BM> collapsed or otherwise became incapacitated. Guess why ever so often BM> I 'check up' on others, glance around the neighbourhood, etc. NB> It's good for neighbors to check up on each other... :) Yes: fine line between being observant and nosy. ...Probably not that fine. BM>>> To me it's fun as something exciting and different but overall like my BM>>> low-key lifestyle. OTOH sittin' on the veranda shooin' flies is too BM>>> laid back for me. Again would be nice for a vacation, but I like a BM>>> little more excitement than that. (Also makes me cringe at the BM>>> thought of the shuffle board retirment community.) NB>>> Low-key, but not deadly boring... ;) I'm with you on that... ;) BM>> On the Vienna Trip I went into 'vacation mode': the low-key "don't BM>> have to do anything" but still kept a schedule -- loose one as had BM>> things to do but generally didn't matter if 15 minutes late. OTOH I BM>> did find myself 'revving': enough of this sitting around - let's do BM>> something! NB>> That last rarely happens for me... usually just too many things still NB>> happening to think that there's been too much sitting around... :) BM> Uh-huh! At the Pond there are things to maintain/repair/etc.; don't BM> think the hotel would appreciate me adding outlets, painting the BM> walls, hanging pictures, etc. NB> Well, actually I'm not doing anything of that nature here... but NB> I'm usually up here for a meeting, and have a few people here NB> that I like to visit when I'm up for more than just the NB> overnight... and often have paperwork and such to take care of NB> with my treasurer's duties.... Plus I bring up the laptop and the NB> unanswered message packets, and usually also bring along some NB> reading material and/or other projects to do in the peace and NB> quiet of the camp... :) And when the weather cooperates, there's NB> swimming.... :) Besides, when I've been going going going, it's NB> just plain nice to sit around for a nice long while... ;) Agree on the "doing nothing": the body and the mind needs a rest. As for how long the rest is, all depends. Vacationing at the Pond - could be an hour staring off into the reflection off the water. Here at the house, could be three minutes a few times in an hour listening to a good song. BM> ...At my Aunt's probably could have added a few outlets -- surface BM> mount to replace exetension cords, but not a project that needed to BM> be done, especially on a short-ish visit. (Their electric outlets BM> are generally spaced on the wall like here in the U.S., just one plug BM> instead of our two per socket. Even the new/remodel construction. BM> Rare to have two outets side-by-side to compensate.) NB> So do they make more use of extension cords and cubes...? Yes, or appears so. In my hotel the TV was in a wall unit (shallow built-in, storage cabinet and safe below) with an outlet for the TV's power and a panel for the antenna connection and some other low-power wiring (empty port). Another hotel I stayed at on a weekend excusion had an outlet strip for the TV and cable box (equivalent). There were two outlets side-by-side, half-hidden by the curtain for the window; positioning a little odd as essentially next to the desk the TV was on but away from the desk by about a foot -- would have mode more sense above the desk. U.S. walls are generally hollow, insulation-filled if outside; European are generally solid so not that easy to run wiring. At my cousin's home didn't snoop around looking for wires. Electronics was usually clustered, so possible use of hidden power strips. And not like I don't use power strip here: installed a new on under the computer desk because rearranged a bit and the wall outlet is behind the desk -- easier and safer to plug a power strip into the outlet and plug the shredder and heater into the power strip. NB>>> ... I think I'm getting used to touhc tpying ! BM>> I tried that excuse and it didn't work. For some reason did make BM>> me think about those 'curved' keyboards ==> instead of the traditional BM>> in-a-straight-line rows of keys the keyboard is split in half and the BM>> key rows slanted or curved to accomodate the natural positioning of tha BM>> hands and arms. Never had the opportunity to try one; probably BM>> wouldn't make all that much difference comfort-wise as I'm a BM>> two-finger-thumb-spacer type of typist anyway. Probably spend more BM>> time correcting as the keys aren't where I'm used to the being! NB>> I've never tried the split keyboard either.... And you are probably NB>> right about the more time correcting, too... I was offered a small NB>> notebook-type computer to replace my laptop, nice thought behind the NB>> offer as it would have been an upgrade in a lot of ways, but I NB>> demurred, at least until I'd have a chance to check with the Wizard... NB>> He mentioned that one drawback would probably be the smaller keyboard, NB>> which would interfere with where my fingers expected to find keys.. ;) BM> Yes: when I switched keyboards the new one was slightly smaller and BM> some of the typing errors were landing on the wrong key because the BM> hands/fingers swung too far, based on the old keyboard's dimensions. BM> As for the notebook computer, I probably wouldn't have let a smaller BM> keyboard deter me, though agree with you checking with The Wizard BM> first. If zero-cost probably a yes, though even then sometimes a ton of BM> drawbacks offsetting the super-low cost. NB> I was being offered it free of charge, a gift... so almost did NB> take it... but they might have been able to find a more suitable NB> home for it still, and there were some drawbacks (like the NB> operating system was Fedora, so I'd either have to learn a lot of NB> new magic spells, or have Richard totally overhaul it) that even NB> I could see at a quick look... Yes, Fedora has its own set of 'magic spells' from Ubuntu which I use here. one reason I don't want to play with it here. Nothing wrong with it, the GUI is probably no problem but I use a lot of command line and that would get confusing. (The Raspberry Pi's Rasbian operating system is pretty close to Ubuntu.) NB> ... I try to take one day at a time, but often several days NB> attack at once Is that a 'daze'?! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... 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