Subj : Re: moving or not To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Tue Jan 21 2020 02:35:50 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 13-Jan-2020 08:11 <=- BM>>> My Mother has shrunk, so yes, some people do tower over her. NB>>> Especially more than they used to do... :) BM>> That too! ...Was thinking 'human growth spurts' might not be an BM>> uncommon thing: I seem to remember reading the armour worn by the BM>> knights in the Middle Ages being referred to as the size now worn by BM>> the average teenager. Something like that: did state people were BM>> shorter than currently. NB>> Probably multiple factors playing into that aspect of people getting NB>> taller in general... still quite a few rather short ones, though, so NB>> it isn't a full rule.... BM> Shorter humans might be at an advantage: they can hide amongst the BM> tall ones!! One of my sisters is quite short, but also was quite athletic... she was able to play basketball and field hockey quite well... seemed to be able to run between the legs of the taller players... ;) BM>> A bad tooth! Yes, if you hadn't eaten for some time, were feeling BM>> fine, then popped in a piece of gum there does seem to be a BM>> correlation. I would probably try again with a different BM>> 'introduction': different / known non-headache-causing food, different BM>> led-in time, and try the gum experiment. OTOH if you already suspected BM>> a saccherin-induced migrane I'd say the result was conclusive. NB>> By the time the small piece of gum triggered it, I'd already stopped NB>> using regular foods sweetened with saccherine... the larger quantities NB>> were pretty conclusive as it was... the gum just clinched it... BM> That does seem rather conclusive! I figured so... :) BM>>>> I'm making dinner! BM>>>> Where are we going? BM>>>> No, I'm _making_ dinner. BM>>>> NB>>>> And when she comes to, dinner is on the table... ;) BM>>> And all over the stove, the walls.... NB>>> You must have let Autumn help... BM>> Spread the blame? And fun?! NB>> Exactly... BM> LIS some time back Autumn loves to eat pancakes and help with the BM> preparation, especially the mixing part. She had a fascination with BM> mixing the dry mix and sometimes got a little over-exuberant. Now she BM> kind of sneaks that into the occasional overmixing of the batter. BM> Rarely splatters, but sometimes that bowl starts to spin pretty good! She's learned some control of the exuberance, then.... :) And still has fun doing the cooking... :) BM> She also gets to make a pancake: batter is poured into her special BM> pitcher -- a metal creamer. She can make whatever size (well, not BM> HUGE!), shape, pattern, etc., pancake she wants. Size being limited by the amount of batter and the size of the pan, for one thing... ;) NB>>>> If you figured out what was giving you the issues, you'd be reading NB>>>> the labels like I have to... ;) BM>>> Definitely! NB>>> And learning lots about the stuff you're eating (or not eating, for NB>>> that matter)... ;) BM>> Why am I thinking 'ignorance is bliss'? Though as a partial BM>> defense I don't have any known issues to be wary of and I tend to eat BM>> reasonably healthy. Main exception is cookies. Not enough to be a BM>> problem to Cookie Monster. NB>> True... the more one reads labels, the less one wants to have much to NB>> do with the heavily processed foods.... :) BM> Rule #1: Beware of long ingredient lists. BM> Rule #2: Beware of ingredients with unpronounceable names. Rule #3: Learn which unpronounceable names are for good ingredients... ;) BM> BM>>> Didn't have any with alcohol this year: didn't have any in the evening. NB>>> Some people don't wait for evening... at least not at an all-day NB>>> party... ;) BM>> There's a country-western song "It's 5 o'clock Somewhere". :) NB>> Yup.... :) BM> They play that on the PBS stations?! Of course not (at least not usually [g])... But I do have some other experiences besides PBS... ;) BM> BTW, for some reason the Iowa Public Television network changed its BM> name to IowaPBS the first of the year. Suppose has something to do BM> with the costs of obtaining PBS programming. Or someone wanted to keep it short and sweet... ;) BM>>> And as you said below, a little editing is sometimes needed, so BM>>> Horse sense: what a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. BM>>> There! 69 characters! NB>>> Yup that worked.... And I snagged it without a problem... BM>> Hopefully 'people' was the correct answer! OTOH it seems to work. :) NB>> Actually, as I seem to recall, the original was indeed 'people'... NB>> which made enough sense that I wanted to snag that tagline, only NB>> to find out that it was too long by by 4 characters.... BM> When editing to fit I have sometimes left out letters: 'abt' BM> originally being 'about'. Have also dropped spaces: after a colon or BM> semi-colon is easy; between words not too bad as capitalize the first BM> letter but can have a bit of a problem with single-letter words like BM> "I" and "a". Some things are more easily edited than others... :) ttyl neb .... A shining beacon of garish neon signs and tourist traps --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .