Subj : Postings, Seasons, Etc. To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Mon Jun 22 2020 09:41:00 Uh-huh -- same as for the others. Hi Daryl! BM> That came through as o-umlaut for the degree symbol, ø <== superscript BM> circle. DS> I hate copying and pasting certain items, as they have these DS> high ascii characters, and I have to change them...usually the DS> quotation marks. That makes ›! ...Oo! Better! That makes › to a ø!! BM> Getting there! DS> It's the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, DS> with winter (the shortest day of the year in the Southern DS> Hemisphere). It reminds me of a joke where when this blonde found DS> out it was "the shortest day of the year", she was initially DS> thrilled (she was in a class, etc. she hated)...but was crushed DS> when she found out that meant "in daylight hours". There are times when the time seems to fly and there are times when it crawls, so maybe she was right! BM> DS> I guess they want virtual spankings now. :P That's old! I think the old Batman TV show had "Slap!", "Bam!" etc. BM> Like "5 + 8". LISB4, there's some sort of under-flowing math BM> processing going on so I usually know when a number has been BM> mis-entered -- into the calculator or to the journal. DS> No...it's 13x7=28 -- just ask professors Abott and Costello. I'm thinking they forgot a plus sign and a parens pair properly placed. (I was more into the Marx Brothers.) BM> Yes, and the plan could be to open and some event occur effecting BM> last-minute changes. ...At this point I'd be thinking "it's back to BM> school" but also make considerations for home-schooling. DS> They're going to try to restart things here this fall, but DS> we'll never be back to what it was before COVID-19, I'm afraid. Yes, regionally at least one of the colleges is starting a little earlier than normal so can start Christmas break early -- something to do with not having the student body come back for a few days between Christmas and New Year's. I had also read where colleges and universities were saying they were going to re-open in the Fall in order to have students commit to attending classes; the schools are afraid if they say classes may or may not be done in-person then too many students might decided to take a year off, further decreasing income from tuition. As for elementary and high school levels, different as essentially don't have the choice not to go. Most schools planning to re-open though several districts have or will have meetings with parents to discuss various options of in-person (classroom) learning, continue the option of on-line, etc. BM> Yes, LIS some other time, this isn't an all that close neighbourhood BM> but most (including us) at least keep an eye out for if something's not BM> right. DS> I'd rather keep my eyes in my head...but wish I had eyes in my DS> butt, so I could be sure the chair or seat is in place before I DS> sit down... but, that'd be a form of hindsight. (Yes, I'm in one DS> of my nether moods today ). Actually the outer space 'creatures' with their eyes on the end of flexible stalks might have it right: swivel one or both to where one needs to check. BM> Maybe that's where Daryl had his hot dogs! DS> I'm still trying to figure out why those I had molded. They DS> were in the refrigerator, in a sealed Ziploc. I'm debating on the DS> next time I go grocery shopping, to get a conglomeration of lunch DS> meat, cheese, hot dogs, macaroni, and frozen peas...cooking each DS> one up into a large casserole. I was thinking 'soup' for casserole and sliced up lunch meat in soup didn't sound all that appetizing! As Nancy said, there's enough preservatives in hot dogs to almost allow them to be stored in the cabinet. I think was just one of those things, like when milk goes bad before the expiry date, or that bag of oyster crackers that smelled like petroleum. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... A fake diamond is a shamrock. --- 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) .