Subj : Re: newspaper was: moving or To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Thu May 07 2020 20:00:26 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 01-May-2020 09:05 <=- BM>>>>> Very foggy out there this morning: "noticeable" up here on the hill BM>>>>> so is really dense. NB>>>>> That's what you get for being so close to a large river... BM>>>> As long as I'm way above it it's fine! Don't want to be singing "row, BM>>>> row, row your boat"! NB>>>> Even if it's just the murkiness of the fog... :) BM>>> During All Hallows Eve.....! NB>>> That would be an appropriate time for it, true... ;) BM>> I don't recall ever having one with fog but have had with snow on the BM>> ground. NB>> We've had that, too.... also with rain... fog would actually be NB>> a little better... ;) BM> It helps with the event atmosphere! Maybe a full moon while we're at BM> it! Barely visible through the fog....?? ;) BM>>> Bubble bubble, toil and spillover!! NB>>> Indeed.. AIS, I did see what you meant about the weird issues there... NB>>> only clue left from your test in how my editor handled it is that NB>>> there's the 'BM>' inserted before the second 'NB>'... ;) BM>> The word "bleah" comes to mind! Possibly alll that wil be solved when BM>> I get a round to switching to a Linux-based BBS system. Right now BM>> running it on Windows XP on a virtual machine. Of course that's a BM>> target for the But Firsts! NB>> I suppose that could have something to do with it.... And it's more NB>> just an annoyance, not a major issue.... so yeah, But Firsts will no NB>> doubt jump to stay ahead of it... ;) BM> I don't do the copy-in inserts all that much so not a constant BM> nuisance; with the current usage more of a "would be nice if it worked BM> properly" while I'm editing. ...At least I won't be running out of BM> things to do! As though that was much of a problem.... ;) BM>>> Yes. To me is 'easy': stick DVD in player, select input on TV, enjoy. BM>>> There are quite a few other steps done automatically which are very BM>>> manual to her! NB>>> Yup, she'd need to think through each minor part of each step, and NB>>> then wonder if she'd missed something... She'd need a lot more NB>>> experience and practice to feel comfortable doing it on her own... BM>> Right. I think her 'big deal' is switching the source to the DVD, and BM>> more importantly back to being able to watch TV. ...Here I made sure BM>> to have a 'commonality rule' of sorts amongst the switch options: if BM>> the TV is connected to a Frontend then the TV's Input was always HDMI BM>> 1. NB>> That does seem a little complicated, even to me.... although I do NB>> know what you are actually talking about... ;) BM> I'm getting easier to understand! :) ...Another issue my Mother has, BM> which is very common, is because she needs to read instructions and/or BM> find the button on the remote the menu times out ==> turns BM> off/disappears automatically. "But I pressed