Subj : Re: disability was: Posts To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Jan 07 2020 18:16:54 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 01-Jan-2020 08:51 <=- BM>> I was kidding with two of the women stockers the other day as a guy on BM>> a mobile scissor lift was scooting by about using one of those (the BM>> lift) as a shopping cart. Evolved into a would be handy for the two BM>> ladies to get to the top shelves. They're not petite but not quite BM>> tall enough to reach the top shelves easily. NB>> I'm a little surprised that the guy was allowed to use the cart in NB>> that way... but it would indeed add a little reach... ;) BM> Nope: I clobbered that one. The worker was using the scissor lift BM> properly, just riding it from one point to another in the store (the BM> controls are in the basket). The joke comment to the ladies was to BM> use it as a shopping cart and reach the upper shelves. Ah, I misparsed that one... I think it might have been only half-kidding though for them as stockers to need something like that to reach the top shelves... ;) 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 reaction NB>>> to his first encounter with the PT the day after his hip surgery... ;) BM>> Logically it would seem to give some time for the bones to mend; OTOH BM>> if there's something in there holding one's pieces together..... NB>> With the hip, that is indeed the case... put together in such a way NB>> that things are held together... and walking on it apparently helps NB>> to solidify that connection, unlike some of the other surgeries.... BM> Right. I thought sure there would be some pain at the fracture site BM> with the two pieces grinding/moving against each other -- sure was BM> painful when I moved before the surgery! Probably whatever medication BM> I was on helped, though I had asked and the reply was something so if BM> there was a problem and I should feel pain I would. And so we're off BM> down the hallway walking with a broken leg. After the surgery, it wasn't a broken leg anymore.... :) You'd have the post-surgical pain from the incisions, but they stabilize the leg in the process, so you'd not have that pain anymore.... With Daddy, they replaced the top part of the hip with an artificial ball for the socket, the shape of that was a ball at the top going down into a taper that fit into his existing bone, and replaced that top part of the bone... Indeed was better than before... 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 paperwork NB>>> was worth going to a 2-year... BM>> Probably. There has also been talk of going to a single plate -- just BM>> the rear plate. I guess the police prefer two plates but it seems not BM>> a requirement. NB>> Some states do only have a rear plate... BM> Yes; apparently works out. Leaves room in the front for advertising.... BM>> Yes, we can have a storm come through and it will be all rain in BM>> southern eastern Iowa (Burlington), all snow in northern eastern Iowa BM>> (Dubuque) and mixed here (Davenport/Bettendorf/Quad Cities). Or "why BM>> is your car all wet?" "It was raining on > house>." "Huh: no rain here." NB>> Well, the storm does have to have an edge somewhere.... ;) BM> True, just seems odd that well-defined, though have experienced rain BM> showers starting or stopping: in the backyard and at first a few BM> raindrops, then more and then it's a downpour! I guess sometimes the edge can be more well defined than other times... I've seen storms moving in from the Pond... you can see the drops of rain on the water surface, and clearly nothing up at the camp... and then it's raining a few feet from the camp, but still not on the camp itself... and then it reaches the camp.... :) 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.... BM>> I think they're located in the U.S, but who knows how the data got to BM>> them: data feed to (say) California busy? Run it through to Japan and BM>> back the other way! NB>> Isn't your cousin in Germany....? Or were you sending to another NB>> cousin...? BM> My cousin in Austria, yes. Ok, so the data was going overseas to Austria.... would have started with your service here in the states, but somehow had to get overseas in the process... which, AIS, might have slowed the transmission down for whatever reason... :) BM>> (Nerdy fun: run in private mode and note where sites think you are.) NB>> That is rather nerdy... one needs to know how to do that in the NB>> first place... BM> Right-click the Firefox icon and select 'Private Window". ...Which BM> doesn't completely hide one from the outside world, just keeps me from BM> getting more unrequested mail. Not something I'd be doing... and wouldn't be using Firefox anyway... :) But I think I follow... ;) BM> ...I was looking for battery chargers/maintainers yesterday. Have an BM> older one but manual says not for use with the type of battery I need BM> it for (automotive yes, UPS no; and to complicate that some automotive BM> batteries are the UPS type and vice versa. "AGM" if anyone wants that BM> detail.). So looking around in Private Mode, essentially getting BM> information and prices (most are of the OMG type!). Selected one, BM> switch to regular mode and purchased. So you found someting suitable.... :) And I see the example... ;) NB>>> Oh... and I checked out the tagline limit in Bluewave, it's a 70 NB>>> character limit here.... MultiMail's might be 75... BM>> OK, thanks. I took a semi-quick look here but didn't see a number. NB>> I didn't look for any written explanations, just counted the NB>> characters in the longest allowable taglines... ;) BM> When I do my tagline sessions I'm adding to the file so just go by the BM> end point of the longest taglines. Makes sense... :) NB>>> ... How can I run amok? I don't even own one. BM>> Have you checked in the online manual? NB>> You mean it might be documented somewhere.....? BM> Entirely possible. Or at least a YouTube post. You can find just about anything on YouTube, or at least so I've heard... that's another thing I don't do... :) ttyl neb .... Dog for sale: Eats anything - Is fond of children. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .