Subj : weather was: food option To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Fri Jan 24 2020 11:40:00 Hi Nancy! 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. NB>> Some things do take a higher priority when issues like that loom... :) BM> Yes; didn't need at all, which is good. This weekend (and it's BM> Saturday morning as I type this) is another 'Beeg Schtorm'. Started BM> around 1 yesterday afternoon; probably got about 4" of snow; a little BM> hard to tell as drifting and blowing: by my car door is a drift and BM> there's bare ground near the rear bumper. Will go out later to move BM> the white stuff around, plus around noon the temperature is supposed to BM> start dropping to 0ø, Then the winds kick in; yesterday they indicated BM> around 40 MPH, today 30. NB> Sounds a lot like what we got last weekend, too... And we're NB> being promised some sort of storm this coming one, too. starting NB> Saturday.. :) Which probably are my Wednesday-Thursday-Friday systems. 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! NB>> Sounds like it included you... ;) Hopefully not for too long a time, NB>> though... :) BM> We lost for about a second. NB> Oh, that's not bad at all... :) Nope :) -- I'll take a second power outage any time! Just don't stack all the seconds together! 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. NB>> (Like me and Wizard-speak...? ) But yes, that's essentially how I NB>> remember it being explained before, that MS-DOS couldn't see or use NB> it... BM> Yes, you and Wizard-speak! :) And sometimes the NB> "motherly 'because'" BM> is sufficient: one can look at the "how NB> is it formatted?" part, see BM> "Y", know it should be "X" and NB> know that's the problem. Don't really BM> have to know more other than "because". NB> Back to Wizard-speak... I don't need to really know anything NB> other than that the Wizard does know what he's talking about and NB> doing... ;) At least you are taking an interest to learn some of the vocabulary and definitions. 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? NB>> I don't expect to ever be a "senior apprentice", but I have referred NB>> to myself as the "sorcerer's apprentice" for a long time... but at a NB>> fairly low level... learned enough not to use spells I don't know NB>> the counter-spell for... BM> That in itself is smart! Keep yourself out of trouble, NB> That's the idea... Sometimes knowing what not to do is better than doing! Hard to undo "format"! 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.! NB>> I'm with you on that last... my idea of a proper snowfall... ;) NB>> Generally, even if the streets and sidewalks stay clear, the cars NB>> might not, unless one has just been out driving them, though.... BM> Even then one can get a bit of a build up of snow and ice in protected BM> areas like the side mirrors and rear window. NB> Especially if there's much of a wind blowing things about and NB> into such areas... :) True. I don't know if it's something I learned from Dad or experience (or both) but I'm a little obsessed with clearing the glass on the car. Mainly want to see, so that takes care of most of it, but then there's a little point at the front of the side windows which if isn't cleared blocks the view of the side mirrors. 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. NB>> We have the blah yard, but the roof is interesting, and the colour NB>> goes with the house and trim well... :) BM> And that 'blah yard' can probably be taken care of relatively easily. NB> As long as one has the time and energy to work on it some... :) That's true: costs money, or at least usually. ...And I'm thinking of a house at the corner of where I turn to get into my extended neighbourhood. Kept up, but whomever selected the colour must have been more colour-blind than I am: is a burnt-orange, which looks bad in the summer with the green lawn but even worse in the winter with the snow-covered lawn. And not just me seeing an odd colour: other people have remarked. OTOH it is unique among the whites, light grays, light golds! BM> To me a nice-looking house (and roof) with a blah yard is better than BM> the other way around. Though it's the people inside that count the BM> most! NB> Indeed. :) So I suppose now I need to visit the people in the 'pumpkin house' to see what they're like! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... City in Alaska passed law outlawing all dogs.Known as Dogless Fairbanks. --- 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) .