Subj : disability was: Posts To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Dec 21 2019 09:39:00 Hi Nancy! NB>>> I was using the ride-em carts for a while in the store, though... BM>> Hopefully you avoided the urge to peel out! NB>> Those carts just wouldn't.... :) One could walk faster than those NB>> would go... but they were handy when one can't walk because it's too NB>> painful, or would cause more problems.... :) BM> The ones at Hy-Vee seem like they could really get some speed up but BM> probably just because of the motor and gear noise. Never seen one BM> race down the straight-away(!). NB> Sometime when there are plenty available, and you have extra NB> time, it might be an interesting experiment to try to ride/drive NB> one... :) I was kidding with two of the women stockers the other day as a guy on a mobile scissor lift was scooting by about using one of those (the lift) as a shopping cart. Evolved into a would be handy for the two ladies to get to the top shelves. They're not petite but not quite tall enough to reach the top shelves easily. BM> I think I told you some time back when the physiotherapist came in the BM> morning after my surgery (had it some time in the early evening) and BM> said we were going for a walk -- (me, something like) "you have the BM> right patient? I just had surgery last night" -- thinking errors BM> happen, easy enough to misremember the room number, etc. "Nope" and BM> explained safety features of the belt and harness for support should BM> I start to fall. ...And we were off! And no, no problems; I don't BM> recall any tenderness much less pain. NB> Yes, I remember you mentioning that... My dad had the same NB> reaction to his first encounter with the PT the day after his hip NB> surgery... ;) Logically it would seem to give some time for the bones to mend; OTOH if there's something in there holding one's pieces together..... BM>>> AFAIK one is supposed to have the registration sheet - the one the BM>>> sticker as attached to -- in the car. As you said would presume easy BM>>> enough to check if the registration was current. NB>>> That too... ours is just a card we punch out and keep in the wallet NB>>> or car.... BM>> Hmm: we get a whole sheet of paper on which the current year's sticker BM>> is removed from and stuck to the rear plate. NB>> Different states, different ways of doing things.... Ours might be a NB>> whole sheet, but it has the windshield sticker to peel off, a NB>> registration card to punch out, and a section that is a receipt for NB>> what we just paid for that 2-year registration.... BM> Another difference: Iowa's is yearly. NB> Ours used to be, but I guess NYS decided that the savings in NB> paperwork was worth going to a 2-year... Probably. There has also been talk of going to a single plate -- just the rear plate. I guess the police prefer two plates but it seems not a requirement. NB>> I see it here a lot more than I'd have expected.... there are times NB>> we wonder whether the owner of the vehicle is trying to pull a fast NB>> one, and have one plate of the set on each of two vehicles... no way NB>> to know unless one had stopped the car and really read the NB>> registration sticker... and/or ran the plates through the computer NB>> to see which vehicle it was registered to.... ;) BM> Right: a possibility. A few years ago we would drive by a parked car BM> and it would be gone for a few days then back a different colour. Not BM> constantly, but maybe three times a year. Could see that fly on the BM> wall: "The plates are registered to a red Toyota, your Toyota is BM> green." "It used to be red." .... NB> So the plates were still the same each time....? I suppose that NB> someone might be into changing the color of the car, like some NB> people like to redecorate every season... Or the car was being NB> driven by a Toyota salesman and it got changed out NB> periodically.... AFAICT it was the same car because of the bumper stickers. Plus it was an older car and a car salesman would probably drive a current model. Almost seemed like the car was used in racing as seemed like it sometimes had a number on the side, but not the past year or so (and appears to be the same car). BM>> Plus ansiweather doesn't have an option for gusts, just sustained. BM>> And along the weather line, supposed to be seasonaly nice here for the BM>> next several days, then I think it was Monday the temperature goes from BM>> upper 40's into the lower 20's. NB>> Today the high of 50ø was at about 3am... and it's been going down NB>> steadily since.... down in the 30s now....and to have a low tonight in NB>> the lower 20s... Highs tomorrow are only supposed to be in the 20s... BM> Might be the beginnings of weather system we had a few days ago: had BM> the 40's, then one afternoon dropped 20-25 degrees. Beware the 'light BM> flurries' at the end!! (Last I heard our "chance of flurries with no BM> accumulation" was 1.1 inches.) NB> Around here, the forecasters habitually waffle on the amount of NB> potential accumulation... especially with lake effect snow, which NB> can be in narrow bands, affecting only certain parts of the NB> area... Overall, lately we've ended up with less than the NB> predictions, though others in slightly different parts of the NB> area had more than the predictions.... Yes, we can have a storm come through and it wil be all rain is southern eastern Iowa (Burlington), all snow in northern eastern Iowa (Dubuque) and mixed here (Davenport/Bettendorf/Quad Cities). Or "why is your car all wet?" "It was raining on ." "Huh: no rain here." BM>>> And no more DSL issues -- maybe they checked yesterday to see what BM>>> they screwed up the other night and fixed and rebooted this morning! NB>>> Could be.... :) Or maybe the issues had to do with abnormal user NB>>> volumes making things fluctuate.... BM>> High usage would seem to just do a slow down, not a loss of the DSL BM>> signal. The good news is everything seems to be back to normal, BM>> including my download and upload numbers. NB>> That is good news. :) BM> Yes, especially as I uploaded some vacation pictures to my cousin and BM> that took -- not sure how long: started in the afternoon with a small BM> test run -- slow but OK. Early evening half of the remainder -- BM> couple files failed; got those. Mid-evening the other half, ended up BM> letting run overnight but only about half uploaded. Restarted the BM> session in the morning and was able to upload the remainder without BM> issues. Just slow, and that's due to me not having an all that fast BM> DSL option (normally don't need). NB> Some of it might have been due to it going overseas, too.... I think they're located in the U.S, but who knows how the data got to them: data feed to (say) California busy? Run it through to Japan and back the other way! (Nerdy fun: run in private mode and note where sites think you are.) NB> Oh... and I checked out the tagline limit in Bluewave, it's a 70 NB> character limit here.... MultiMail's might be 75... OK, thanks. I took a semi-quick look here but didn't see a number. NB> ... How can I run amok? I don't even own one. Have you checked in the online manual? ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus? Claustrophobic. --- 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) .