Subj : Re: flood stuff was: Vacation To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Dec 31 2019 19:28:02 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 21-Dec-2019 09:39 <=- BM>>> Heck, I'm retired! Hope I can't be fired from retirement!! NB>>> Nope.... and that's one less thing to worry about... :) BM>> Wasn't all that concerned when I was working, though sometimes the BM>> corporate-speak did seem to go overboard for generally minor BM>> infractions: punishment for being late had "up to and including BM>> termination" tacked to it. NB>> If one isn't likely to be committing such infractions, there's not NB>> much to be concerned about.... :) BM> Agree, no, not likely to happen, just I tend to take it a little BM> literally and so as a threat. There's an accident, road blocked, BM> don't make to work on time and so fired. I'm sure that would be at the other end of the scale... extenuating circumstances and all that.... I'd guess that the "including termination" part would be more for the habitually late, generally without much of a valid excuse, type of situation.... BM> There were some people who lived on the Illinois side, so always had BM> to use the bridges to get to the store on the Iowa side. One of the BM> problems is the current I-74 bridge is only two lanes each direction BM> and no breakdown lanes -- even emergency responders have to come from BM> the wrong direction to get to the accident site. Next bridge BM> downriver is the Government Bridge which is a swingspan: that could BM> be open to allow river traffic through. Next bridge is Centennial BM> -- that one doesn't move but still could have traffic issues. Next BM> bridges outside the immediate area are miles of detour. Again, I'd hope that that sort of incident would also have been treated as extenuating circumstance.... :) BM>>> Actually might be a useful project for later when Autumn needs to BM>>> go to the Library and I need something to occupy my time. NB>>> Now there's an idea.... probably even a good one... :) BM>> Now just to have her learn to read: she can recognize her name -- had BM>> to not write out her name on the box with her Christmas presents in it! NB>> She's making progress.... :) You could be taking her to library NB>> already... there's plenty of picture books in the Children's Section NB>> that she could spend time with.... ;) BM> She still separates her time depending on where she is: Pop-Pop time BM> (here) originally had nothing to do with school/learning. Recently a BM> few times when she is the teacher (and a slightly mean one!!) teaching BM> the stuffed animals their letters, easy words, numbers and some simple BM> math. So in the past going to the Library from here wasn't really a BM> play option; things are changing so might be some time next year -- BM> play by ear. As she gets older you can expand her horizons a bit... ;) BM> BM>>> I'm thinking what you have in New York as a Party House doesn't exist BM>>> as such out here. Closest equivalent would be renting something the BM>>> lodges at Duck Creek or Credit Island Parks, but as a pot luck or BM>>> catered. There are of course banquet rooms, AFAIK generally part of a BM>>> hotel, but that's different from your Party House. NB>>> The banquet rooms are getting closer to what we have.... If you had NB>>> something like that not part of a hotel (or a convention center), but NB>>> with its own kitchen and staff, that's pretty much what I'm talking NB>>> about... You might have something of the sort, but never run across NB>>> it yet.... or maybe there's less need for that where you are... :) BM>> Or I'm just less of a partyer! I'm pretty sure we have something BM>> close to your "party house" out here. NB>> I'm not much of a partyer, either... but have managed to notice some NB>> of the places around here... :) BM> Might be advertised for holiday functions. That's possible, too... :) BM>>> So yes, even though the flooding is done with for now it will come BM>>> back and they need to be prepared. NB>>> Yup. Besides, a lot of things aren't really totally predictable, NB>>> much as we could wish they were.... :) BM>> Right: Mother Nature likes to give us those surprises every so often. NB>> Feast or famine, drought or flood... never know for sure what NB>> might be coming when... ;) BM> Just try to be prepared. Yup. NB>> ... I'm sure everything I can't find is in a safe place somewhere. BM> I've been half-looking for an older UPS. For some reason BM> there has been a concern of if the power goes out for an extended time BM> and the need for a battery-powered TV. "Have to get one that runs off BM> batteries!" "Just use one we have with a 12v input and one of the BM> spare UPS batteries...." BM> So I need to get that little project together. Relatively simple but BM> as I have had a cold this past week not all that interested in BM> 'chilling' in the cold basement. Sort of 'geekin' it' by thinking of BM> using that old UPS to charge the battery and use as a container -- the BM> 120v output didn't work which is why I pulled it. Instructions BM> indicates there's a fuse on the circuit board but I haven't found. BM> Then I'm thinking may be just as easy to use a solar cell I have BM> downstairs as the charging source - plug and unplug -- could charge BM> another battery.... You'll figure out something... :) ttyl neb .... This is like deja vu all over again -- Yogi Berra --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .