Subj : Health Was: Nuts To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sun Oct 27 2019 09:30:00 Hi Nancy! 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... :) BM> Yes: fine line between being observant and nosy. ...Probably not that BM> fine. NB> It partly depends on the relationship one has with one's NB> neighbors otherwise... For years, my next-door neighbor and I NB> were friends, and we had the spare key to each other's houses... NB> when she went away, I watched her house, brought in the mail and NB> newspaper, fed/watered her cats and watered her plants... and NB> when we were away, she did the same for us... When I was away, NB> and Richard at work, she'd watch for our son to get off the bus NB> and make sure he was ok... As she got older, and started to have NB> more health problems, I ended up stepping in more and more to NB> help her... driving her to doctor appointments, going in with her NB> to those visits as the extra set of ears/eyes/mouth... helping NB> her balance her checkbook, and eventually writing out the checks NB> for her signature... And I'd also keep an eye on her physically, NB> through the windows, especially at night, to make sure she was NB> ok... For a different relationship, it really was pretty nosy, NB> but in this case, she appreciated it, and it helped her feel NB> safer, as well... :) She's gone now... the house sold, as I've NB> talked about before, and different people there... I still kinda NB> watch out for the house, as I would for any of my neighbors, but NB> there certainly isn't the same relationship there any more.... Right. Some of the people including us on this block do look out the window and observe what is going on (especially with noises, etc.), but most seem to be behind closed drapes. I don't mind not being chummy but if something doesn't seem right will monitor and possibly do something if the situation warrents. 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 I'm NB>> usually up here for a meeting, and have a few people here that I like NB>> to visit when I'm up for more than just the overnight... and often NB>> have paperwork and such to take care of with my treasurer's duties... NB>> Plus I bring up the laptop and the unanswered message packets, and NB>> usually also bring along some reading material and/or other projects NB>> to do in the peace and quiet of the camp... :) And when the weather NB>> cooperates, there's swimming.... :) Besides, when I've been going NB>> going going, it's just plain nice to sit around for a nice long NB>> while... ;) BM> Agree on the "doing nothing": the body and the mind needs a rest. As BM> for how long the rest is, all depends. Vacationing at the Pond - BM> could be an hour staring off into the reflection off the water. Here BM> at the house, could be three minutes a few times in an hour listening BM> to a good song. NB> Depends on what else needs doing... ;) At the Pond, could well NB> be more than just a mere hour looking out the window at the NB> Pond... ;) As for the upkeep and all, I leave that to Richard NB> and the kid, pretty much... or whoever else I might have brought NB> up with me to take care of things... :) Yes, "all depends". One does not need to constantly work/do something -- take time to smell the roses! Resting/relaxing is not a bad thing; nor is working constantly a bad thing; too much of either is bad. 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...? BM> Yes, or appears so. In my hotel the TV was in a wall unit (shallow BM> built-in, storage cabinet and safe below) with an outlet for the TV's BM> power and a panel for the antenna connection and some other low-power BM> wiring (empty port). Another hotel I stayed at on a weekend excusion BM> had an outlet strip for the TV and cable box (equivalent). There were BM> two outlets side-by-side, half-hidden by the curtain for the window; BM> positioning a little odd as essentially next to the desk the TV was on BM> but away from the desk by about a foot -- would have mode more sense BM> above the desk. U.S. walls are generally hollow, insulation-filled if BM> outside; European are generally solid so not that easy to run wiring. NB> Even here, with cinderblock construction wiring ends up being NB> along the walls... or in old houses that still have the lath and NB> plaster, it might not be disturbed by trying to run stuff through NB> the walls.... True! If hollow wall construction and one can get above or below (attic or basement) easy enough (relatively!) to run the electrical out of sight. For floors between other floors, or like here in the basement where even though is finished there is no room to run wiring on the outside walls so surface-mount. 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 take NB>> it... but they might have been able to find a more suitable home for NB>> it still, and there were some drawbacks (like the operating system was NB>> Fedora, so I'd either have to learn a lot of new magic spells, or have NB>> Richard totally overhaul it) that even I could see at a quick look... BM> Yes, Fedora has its own set of 'magic spells' from Ubuntu BM> which I use here. one reason I don't want to play with it here. BM> Nothing wrong with it, the GUI is probably no problem but I use a lot BM> of command line and that would get confusing. (The Raspberry Pi's BM> Rasbian operating system is pretty close to Ubuntu.) NB> A lot of it is what one is used to... and which is close enough NB> to that to be easily picked up... :) True. The Windows command to display the network connection is "ipconfig"; the one in Linux is 'ifconfig'. No idea why didn't stick with what I'm guess is the 'Internet Protocol' but probably a reason. OTOH nice to use "iwconfig" for the Wireless information; no idea what Windows uses. NB> ... I try to take one day at a time, but often several days NB> attack at once BM> Is that a 'daze'?! NB> Some daze, yes.... Good news: I'm not confused! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Trailer Trash: the Halloween pumpkin has more teeth than your spouse. --- 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) .