Subj : Re: weather was: food option To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Jan 17 2020 19:59:32 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 11-Jan-2020 08:59 <=- And so, last night, had an interruption while I was doing messages, and by the time I could get back to it, I was already running late for my bbs run.... so here we are.... ;) NB>>> No, just have had a number of busy days of one sort or another... NB>>> some days it was long phone calls that took away any messaging time, NB>>> some days it was appointments... and a few days that the mind was just NB>>> too numb to concentrate on messages.... ;0 Working again at chipping NB>>> away at the backlog.... ;) BM>> Yes - sometimes the not getting anything done is because of waiting BM>> for something to happen. Can't, or rather don't want to get started BM>> with a larger project when expecting to be interrupted by a phone call, BM>> company coming, having to leave shortly, etc. Even some of the small BM>> projects need their bit of uninterrupted time. ...Oh well, will be BM>> there waiting for us! NB>> Indeed... :) Sometimes, when I think there might be time to do one NB>> message before something is to happen, I might try to do, especially NB>> if I'm already on the computer and not too foggy.... And there's a NB>> bit of triage occuring, too... If I've not done any messages over in NB>> one of the other echoes, I might do a good set of them first... and NB>> then end up without enough time for here... It balances out in the NB>> long run, though... ;) BM> Yes, we all have lives and things don't always go as mentally BM> scheduled. I was almost glad not to have much mail the past couple of BM> days as they had been forecasting a rather nasty storm in this part of BM> the country and seemed to be emphasizing scattered power outages. BM> Have lighting, battery-operated radio; would be nice to be able to BM> watch the weather report so did the battery project for the TV; solar BM> cell recharge of the battery needs work still so charged up a spare BM> battery. Some things do take a higher priority when issues like that loom... :) BM> ...Got up, showered, getting dressed and thinking "ah, made it through BM> the night without problems" -- click! beep! - beep! -- dark in the BM> corner but another light on (is on UPS). Someone lost power BM> somewhere! Sounds like it included you... ;) Hopefully not for too long a time, though... :) BM>> Listening and watching for those 'wrong things' does help with BM>> troubleshooting, though as you indicated it does help to know what one BM>> is listening and looking for! :) NB>> Yup... And that's why I had the Wizard do the listening... he could NB>> tell that everything sounded fine, so that was a relief... BM> Yes. And sometimes knowing to do nothing without supervision is a BM> good thing: "I heard the fan and then the screen turned blue" doesn't BM> help much for troubleshooting. Now if The Wizard is present, hears the BM> fan rev fast, etc., he might tell you what it could mean and you learn BM> to look and listen for additional signs and symptoms. :) Or be there, hear things actually sounding ok, and be able to reassure that things are probably fine... ;) NB>>> Don't forget, my main machine is an old Proteva Touch... came with NB>>> WIN95 on it, so bought back then... total hard drive is about a NB>>> gig... partitioned into 4 drives so that DOS can deal with it... :) NB>>> The laptop is much newer.... :) BM>> I was thinking FAT16 for the file system but then can handle 2G BM>> (IIRC). Wouldn't change anything as could create other problems: BM>> old-old system here had the BBS on drive G: (or some drive letter), BM>> probably backups to a different drive, etc. Went to move it to the new BM>> system which didn't have as many drives (physical/logical) -- BM>> correcting was a mess! NB>> I can well imagine... :) It may be FAT16, dunno... but I do recall NB>> that it had something to so with how DOS works... BM> If it's the 'wrong' format MS-DOS either doesn't see it or doesn't BM> know what to do with it. Think of it as something like looking at a BM> book written in a language other than English: says something, but no BM> idea what. (Like me and Wizard-speak...? ) But yes, that's essentially how I remember it being explained before, that MS-DOS couldn't see it or use it... BM>>>> Just be certain to do at least a weekly backup! NB>>>> I don't know if it has to be the whole thing like that each NB>>>> time... I need to ask the Wizard if there's some way to just add NB>>>> to the archive, or how it works exactly.... and things have been NB>>>> busy since, not just at the computer.... ;) BM>>> You should be able to do an incremental back up, which will just copy BM>>> the new and altered files, so won't take nearly as long. Then make BM>>> another full back up as a separate set followed by incrementals. This BM>>> will give a sort of back up to the back up. On the third (or later) BM>>> full back up the original set is reused. NB>>> That will be a job for the Wizard... at least for a while yet... ;) BM>> Yes, though probably an easy enough job to learn. You'll become The BM>> Apprentice to the Wizard yet! NB>> Nice theory... BM> No? I don't expect to ever be a "senior apprentice", but I have referred to myself as the "sorcerer's apprentice" for a long time... but at a fairly low level... learned enough not to use spells I don't know the counter-spell for... BM>> New Year's Eve was relatively warm as I recall -- 40's and 50's during BM>> the last week of December. Snowed here last night -- started around BM>> 6:30. Temperature stayed at 33ø all evening and probably overnight as BM>> was 32ø when I got up. The strange thing when looking at the snowfall BM>> later last night was the ground was covered but the sidewalks and BM>> street were clear. Will go out later this morning as the cars need to BM>> be cleaned off and some snow did accumulate on the walks. NB>> Not all that strange... if the roads and the sidewalks were warm NB>> enough, the snow wouldn't stick there until they cooled off a lot NB>> more... Happens here all the time... :) BM> Agree, and has happened numerous times before, just looks a little odd BM> - guess I expect an all-or-none. Plus goes with my sort of BM> wish-thought of it only snows on green surfaces ==> have the snow to BM> make things wintery but no shovelling sidewalks, cleaning off cars, BM> etc.! I'm with you on that last... my idea of a proper snowfall... ;) Generally, even if the streets and sidewalks stay clear, the cars might not, unless one has just been out driving them, though.... NB>>>> I wouldn't think it would look right with ours for sure... What we NB>>>> got this time are the ones I think are called sculptural.. they look NB>>>> sort of like a basket weave.... supposed to last longer, I think.... BM>>> OK, yes -- I had to look it up: sort of knew what you meant but one of BM>>> the pictures really looked like a basketweave pattern and looked nice. NB>>> It's the current fashion here... one sees a lot of these roofs NB>>> around... BM>> I like the slightly random look over the straight-cut. NB>> These actually are rather attractive... :) BM> Does, :) House a nice colour with matching trim, landscaped yard; BM> blah roof. We have the blah yard, but the roof is interesting, and the colour goes with the house and trim well... :) BM>>> Our is more the wooden shingles style: random widths and the bottoms BM>>> of the rows aren't quite even to give it that more individual pieces BM>>> look. What's 'funny' is a few people around the greater neighbourhood BM>>> redid their roofs after we did and they have a similar style. Not BM>>> saying they copied, but.... NB>>> The roofers seem to push certain styles at certain times.... The NB>>> wooden shingles look was probably what they were pushing when you NB>>> had yours done.... ;) BM>> Plus that's what we liked out of the selection. Wonder what's in BM>> fashion for roofs this season?! NB>> If you decide to research it now for your roof, you might find NB>> out... BM> Y'think?! Very good chance, anyway.... ttyl neb .... Fruit tags would be grapely apricoted. --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .