Subj : Re: weather was: food option To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Jan 31 2020 02:41:04 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 24-Jan-2020 11:40 <=- 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 being NB>> promised some sort of storm this coming one, too. starting Saturday.. :) BM> Which probably are my Wednesday-Thursday-Friday systems. Probably was.... :) 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... :) BM> Nope :) -- I'll take a second power outage any time! Just don't BM> stack all the seconds together! Exactly... 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 "motherly 'because'" BM>> is sufficient: one can look at the "how is it formatted?" part, see BM>> "Y", know it should be "X" and 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 other NB>> than that the Wizard does know what he's talking about and doing... ;) BM> At least you are taking an interest to learn some of the vocabulary BM> and definitions. Or at least absorbing some of it.... 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... BM> Sometimes knowing what not to do is better than doing! BM> Hard to undo "format"! Rather...! BM>>> Plus goes with my sort of wish-thought of it only snows on green BM>>> surfaces ==> have the snow to make things wintery but no shovelling BM>>> sidewalks, cleaning off cars, 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 into NB>> such areas... :) BM> True. I don't know if it's something I learned from Dad or experience BM> (or both) but I'm a little obsessed with clearing the glass on the BM> car. Mainly want to see, so that takes care of most of it, but then BM> there's a little point at the front of the side windows which if isn't BM> cleared blocks the view of the side mirrors. Probably some of both... I may not always clear all the snow off the top of the car, but I do clear all the "lights"... lights, windows, 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... :) BM> That's true: costs money, or at least usually. That, too.... :) BM> ...And I'm thinking of a house at the corner of where I turn to get BM> into my extended neighbourhood. Kept up, but whomever selected the BM> colour must have been more colour-blind than I am: is a burnt-orange, BM> which looks bad in the summer with the green lawn but even worse in BM> the winter with the snow-covered lawn. And not just me seeing an odd BM> colour: other people have remarked. OTOH it is unique among the BM> whites, light grays, light golds! Unique isn't necessarily a bad thing, after all... no mistaking that house, if one has guests coming, or even a delivery.... ;) 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. :) BM> So I suppose now I need to visit the people in the 'pumpkin house' to BM> see what they're like! Now that's a good thought.... ;) You could also find yourself becoming accustomed to the strange color, over time.... ;) Or someone else might paint their house an even stranger color, putting this one into a sort of perspective... ttyl neb .... A computer makes as many mistakes in 2 seconds, as 20 men do in 20 yrs --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .