Subj : Re: Do Not Call To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu Oct 31 2019 02:00:14 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 25-Oct-2019 08:16 <=- BM>> Welcome back again! NB>> Thank you... and now I finally am truly back... shouldn't be any NB>> more real trips now until next April... :) Maybe I'll finally NB>> get some of this backlog taken care of... :) I didn't even bring NB>> the computer with me to the camp for this last trip, since it was NB>> just an overnight, and I just didn't want the hassle of NB>> transfering the files back and forth this time... :) BM> You'll probably be getting a case of wanderlust! As for not bringing BM> the computer for overnight, I probably would not have either, rather BM> preferring to enjoy the time 'disconnected' and connect with Nature. It was just a bit more hassle than I wanted for what was going to be rather a whirlwind trip.... we got up to the North Country in time for supper in Canton, then went back to the camp... just nice to not have to do anything... the next morning we did everything that needed doing to close our camp for the winter, and to button down the kid's structure and things for however long he ends up being away again this time, including tarping his Jeep again... and then off to Montreal to deliver him to the airport, and then the 6 hours or so back to Rochester... A little downtime the night we arrived was a good thing... BM> ...And sort of speaking of Mother Nature, bright enough outside can BM> see the colours out there: the leaves have definitely turned orange BM> since yesterday, though still patches of green. Looked the other day BM> and what may or may not be the Burning Bush did have some 'Burning Bush BM> red' leaves, so there's hope! Sounds promising... :) BM> It's those silly little details! There have been times over the BM> decades I've dialed in and not connected -- most of the time the BM> problem was on the host system's end but there were still those times BM> the problem was on mine. Have noted also with 'regular' websites: get BM> that pecky little 'spinning' or some other 'waiting' icon. And we BM> wait, and we wait. And we get annoyed and either hit the reload button BM> or sometimes open a new session -- connect instantly! Similar to waiting on hold on the phone... sometimes what works is hanging up and trying again.... unless in the meantime, they've closed the phones for the day.... ;) NB>> Not necessarily... Somewhere along the line we acquired a telephone NB>> handset that has a built-in "Tele-Zapper" which sends a tone that is NB>> supposed to tell a computer that it got a not-in-use line... dunno if NB>> that is why we get so many hang-ups from what are obviously computer NB>> generated calls or not... even though that handset isn't particularly NB>> useable any more (the display has given up the ghost), we've left it NB>> in the circuit, as it generates the tone to any of the other NB>> extensions... And even the ones where there's actually a real person NB>> on the other side, not saying anything generally ends up with their NB>> hanging up when they get no response.... The four-ringers just keep NB>> trying, sometimes more than 3-4 times in a single day, so they don't NB>> seem to be detered by our NOT picking up the phone, either... BM> Sounds just as valid. I think the tone generated by the 'Tele-Zapper' BM> might be the SIT - forgot what it stands for but is the "doo-Doo-DOOO" BM> tone one sometimes hears followed by "the number you have dialed is BM> out of order or no longer in service". Supposedly tells the other BM> computer to mark that number as having a problem or is no longer valid. No, actually it's just a single beep... and it is generated when any one of the handsets in the circuit is picked up... but is supposed to tell the other computer that it isn't a valid number, at least in theory... And that three tone tone is also followed sometimes with the message that your line is out of service, and there may be a phone off the hook... so an indication that the other party really did hang up, even though your line wasn't released.... BM>> They announced on the local news this morning additional road closures BM>> on both sides of the Mississippi River, which is about two feet over BM>> flood stage. No major traffic re-routing like last Spring, just some BM>> lower-traffic neighbourhood streets, though they did show a four-lane BM>> road on the Illinois side with a car passing another and both kicking BM>> up some pretty impressive water rooster tails! NB>> Just the typical minor league flooding, obviously... ;) BM> Same ol' 'glug-glug-glug'! ...Now as long as dry roads don't become a BM> novelty! Indeed...!! NB>>> Fall's here... ;) BM>> Yup! A lot of the trees I can see from my window up here are starting BM>> to turn colours. Still early for the Burning Bush in the back yard BM>> (the one I trimmed out the dead branches), but we're thinking the BM>> Burning Bush is what died and what's left is a wild shrub that got BM>> mixed in years ago. NB>> Guess you'll get a better idea as the fall progresses... Here in NB>> Rochester, the colors are starting to get nice... up at the Pond last NB>> trip, the colors were obviously at peak, and quite pretty, though not NB>> as brilliant as some years... this trip, most of the leaves were on NB>> the ground already... some small patches of color... A little further NB>> north, in Canada, it was more like getting towards peak still... of NB>> course, our camp is nestled just outside the Adirondack Park Preserve, NB>> so somewhat in the mountains... :) BM> Higher elevation, so cooler more consistently. Yup. BM> LIS somewhere in this BM> packet the leaves turned orange since yesterday. Neighbour's tree is BM> still green but a lot of the trees in the rest of what I can see from BM> my window are orange. ...An overall orange, not seeing any areas of BM> red nor yellow. Maybe too early, maybe won't this year. The last day or so here, I've seen our local trees all mostly be turning... there's a lot of yellow, some orange, some red.... we're probably at peak now.... BM> ...Upcoming project -- the computer/data-based weather as the ones BM> using the wireless sensor don't work up here. So you are giving up on those sensors.... 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.... BM>> And sometimes I can't even read it! NB>> That IS illegible... BM> You mean my Mother was right?! Just saying that if you can't read your own writing, that it is illegible indeed... and if that's what your mother was saying, then yes, I guess she's right.... ;) ttyl neb .... All a fight proves is that two people are present, and both are fools. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .