Subj : food, etc... To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Dec 20 2019 11:09:00 Hi Nancy! BM>> Right: not like it isn't done and this is the first time, just is the BM>> first time for here/me. Will be figured out. NB>> Hard enough to wrap one's head around, to be sure... Maybe NB>> Illinois won't change, and it won't be an issue for you... ;) BM> That would solve a few issues! ...Ooo: I just thought of another BM> problem: when I set up a new computer for the time zone I've been BM> selecting 'Chicago' (most of the time it pops up on it's own, probably BM> based on where I insert to the Internet based on IP addresses). All BM> the computer (regardless of OS) times zone information would have to be BM> updated! NB> Or you could just leave them all as they are, and mentally do the NB> correction if necessary.... If a mental correction is needed might be easier to just go GMT and calculate everything/everywhere. ...Mental exercise is getting a cramp! BM>>> We go by the It Depends Rule: if nasty out there -- cold, blowing, BM>>> etc. -- probably won't shovel until it stops snowing. OTOH if it's a BM>>> wet heavy snow probably will shovel because easier to shovel less heavy BM>>> snow than an accumulation. And then OTOH if have to be someplace in BM>>> the earlier morning will probably 'pre-shovel' in the evening so takes BM>>> less time in the morning. NB>>> Yup, the It Depends Rule applies here... adding, if one has to get NB>>> somewhere, it's more likely to be done sooner than later... :) NB>>> Richard's been out today shoveling what came down yesterday and last NB>>> night... earlier we could get out and back in the driveway ok without NB>>> shoveling, today he needed to get out for his Monday errands, so he NB>>> did the shoveling (also a path to the mailbox for the mailman).... NB>>> There's supposed to be more snow today, we'll see.... BM>> The news I'm getting shows it as Rather Nasty out on the upper East BM>> Coast. Didn't talk to my Mother last night but the weather conditions BM>> indicated 'flurries', and not unusual for Boston to be hit and BM>> southern NH to have a dusting. Or maybe I looked at the end of the BM>> storm. NB>> Hasn't been nearly that Nasty here... we've had on-again, off-again, NB>> light snow, but not much accumulation since the beginning of the NB>> week, and even that was only about 4-5 inches or so... the bottom NB>> layer was those sleet pellets, but that was the worst of it... NB>> Thankfully, we aren't quite at the coast.... ;) BM> Tomorrow it's supposed to have a high of 48ø and drop to 21ø (a few BM> degrees warmer on either side compared to last week's forecasts). BM> Tuesday and Wednesday high of 24ø, low of 15ø; Thursday back to more BM> seasonal with a high of 40ø. Might have some flurries during the cold BM> days but no accumulation (or so they say! ). NB> They're mostly only guessing, after all... ;) So far this week, NB> we've had only an inch or two all told, but more had been NB> predicted... and the night there wasn't going to be any NB> accumulation we got maybe an inch or so... ;) We get what we NB> get... Supposed to be 44ø later this afternoon; rest of the week and through Christmas also highs in the mid- and upper 40's, possibly Tuesday hitting 50ø! Normal is just above freezing. The meteorologist who earlier in the week was doing a less than 5% and then less than 2% chance for a white Christmas was off today; the one this morning didn't bring it up. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Why does "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing? --- 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) .