Subj : Another Day In The ER To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Tue Dec 01 2020 09:24:00 Hi Daryl! DS> "I have PMS, and a handgun. Any questions??". BM> Thinking might not be the best time to ask details like 'is the gun BM> loaded?'. DS> "Safety Is Now Off". :P BM> But one should always practice safety! DS> In looking back, I had wondered about becoming a school DS> crossing safety guard. But nowadays, even that is hazardous. DS> Unless you have the police officers there with radar guns, to DS> pull over the violators, they're going to drive like it's the DS> Indy 500...school zone or not. The same applies to school DS> buses...even with the stop arms out, and red lights flashing, DS> some drivers just zoom right by. Here they seem to still have respect for the crossing guards, though I haven't seen one in some time because of retirement and now the coronavirus. BM> Should buy a pre-made sandwich, eat it while you're shopping. That BM> should take care of your hunger, so less inclined to hunger-buy. Just BM> make sure not to damage the bar code so can pay for it during checkout. DS> I think I drove to an area Chick-Fil-A, and got their 30 count DS> nuggets, with a large sweet tea. That's easy to eat while I'm DS> driving. I will note that "I don't drink and drive...but I swig DS> at stoplights". The Chick-Fil-A here is inside the Mall. As for drinking and driving, you should be alright as long as no sudden stops and be sure to use a straw so your vision isn't obstructed. :) BM> As for microwavable cornbread dressing, don't recall seeing any but BM> then haven't looked either. Suppose if spread the mix on a glass pan BM> about a half-inch thick would work. Of course does help to have a BM> working microwave! Do not cheap-out and get a low wattage microwave; BM> anything below 800 is pretty much junk. IIRC 800W barely pops popcorn. DS> The brand was Savannah Classics. I thawed it for 15 minutes on DS> half power (it was frozen), then cooked it for 10 minutes on high DS> power. It was delicious...but it must've been rich (cue the DS> classic Alka Seltzer commercial "I can't believe I ate the whole DS> thing"), as I've had bouts of diarrhea and cramping, along with DS> some nausea in the last 18 hours. I'm not sure if that's a good or bad review!! Haven't heard of the Savannah Classics brand, but then we don't have a Kroeger locally either. And the intestinal upset you had could have been due to something else, or just too much of a good thing. DS> As for the wattage, I think that also affects the size of the DS> oven, and limits what you can put in there. I've always had DS> problems getting a good result from microwave popcorn...too many DS> unpopped kernels, or it's burned. And, I prefer my popcorn with a DS> large amount of butter. But, I'll be darned if I'm going to go to DS> a movie theatre to get it. They want to know if you want some DS> popcorn with your salt. Microwave popcorn isn't all that good for the microwave's mechnicals: the oil-laden steam gets on everything. Can wash the cavity but can't get to the inside where the stirrer and electronics are. A higher wattage microwave will give better results for microwaved popcorn that a low wattage one, but still not better than doing it stove top. BM> At least your late wife didn't say that to you! DS> Our dachshund beat us on that every time...he'd drop a methane DS> bomb, then wag his tail and spread it around...as a green haze DS> filled the room. :P "That's not what we meant by a 'romantic scent'!" BM> That one consider placement and you might be wet from the shower. DS> That reminds me of the "Dennis The Menace" cartoon...where he's DS> sitting in the dry bathtub (no water), but naked as a jaybird. He DS> tells his Mom "Water?? I'm getting dry cleaned!!". Works for me! BM> Yes, sometimes the right partner barely ticks any of the conscious BM> boxes. It's those heart boxes one needs to check. DS> That's it. Unfortunately, some people can even be deceitful in DS> that area...and the other one can be so lonely, that they become DS> gullible and desperate (sp?). What's ironic is that before I was DS> married, I wasn't really interested in getting married. I've DS> heard on average, after one is widowed, it's best to wait awhile DS> (remarrying too soon usually does not bode well). Averges are just that: averages. Some people have naturally low blood pressure: I knew of someone whose systolic was around 60 mm and the diastolic was virtually undetectable. That '120/80' woudl have killed her! As for the 'bounce-back relationships', one always hears they are always a fling and don't work out but not necessarily. DS> There's a hospital proposal video on YouTube, which is DS> hilarious. Basically, Casey and Mike's first marriages ended in DS> tragedy. They were both widowed within two days of each other. By DS> God's Amazing Grace, they found love again. In this video, you DS> will see Casey get the surprise of a lifetime, when Mike asks for DS> her hand in marriage at work. Casey is an OR RN, and we tricked DS> her into thinking she was about to scrub an emergency C-section. DS> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Wnkfe6o9k Nice. :) And one lead into this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRAtlUYIG2g&ab_channel=TrentAric (Nice studio!) We've had a few on-air proposals at the local television stations over the years but nothing this elaborate. BM> Everyone has baggage, some carry-on, some trunks. I'm getting to the BM> opinion having help with the bags is good, just don't give all and BM> don't expect all to be taken. And you also need to assist with some of BM> the other person's baggage. DS> The first woman I was engaged to (long before I met the woman DS> who would become my wife) basically wanted me to do all the DS> "giving", and she was to do all the "taking". Everything was to DS> revolve around her...whether it was for where we eat, what we DS> did, and time spent with each other. When I broke up with her (we DS> were engaged, but had not set a wedding date), she accused me of DS> "using her". I felt like "the weight of the world had been lifted DS> off my shoulders" at that point. Yes, she sounds like someone who should be on the "Housewives of" type of shows: all bling, no brain. (Well, the shows premises; some of the people seem potentially decent except for the role they're in.) DS> I still have nightmares about her...I'd rather have dreams DS> about my late wife...as the relationship was so special. I was DS> truly blessed to have her. Bad dreams can be warnings and reminders to stay away from that situation. DS> Both sides need to compromise, give and take, and work DS> together. Otherwise, the couple gets married on a Friday, and is DS> filing for divorce on Monday. :P DS> But, after nearly 14 years as a widower, to put it bluntly, I'm DS> lonely. Yet, the women I dated for a time after my wife died "had DS> trunks of baggage". At the age I'd probably consider more a serious dating relationship than moving in or getting married. I'm thinking too accustomed to being alone/independent and so space is needed, so just to the 'friends with benefits' level might be best. OTOH that could be just the averages talking! BM> I neglected to mention I don't use my cell phone as a primary form of BM> communictaion so for me to receive a call it's rare and usually a wrong BM> number or spam. I do make calls occasionally: if in the car when BM> stationary. DS> Plus, if I'm parked and talking on the phone, I don't have to DS> worry about other vehicles (especially if I'm in a parking lot DS> off the road, and out of the flow of traffic). Then, I can DS> concentrate on the call at hand. My late wife was a stickler for DS> that...and she was right making me NOT talk and drive. Yes. Even a computer does only one thing at a time: the multiple applications concurrently is really just a very fast switch from job to job. Humans can't switch nearly that fast. DS> It loses 30% of its value the moment you drive it off the lot. BM> Too bad that doesn't occur with a test drive! DS> Isn't that the truth?? I saw a post in another echo where this DS> one vehicle had gone off on a test drive, and it basically DS> disappeared. It showed back up 6 months later...the driver (a DS> doctor) had "forgotten to bring it back". Would you please DS> explain that one to me?? :P Hopefully he wasn't a brain sugeon! I could see where it is possible to have a car out that long: person doing the test drive is hospitalized for an extended time. "Just forgetting" - no. DS> I'm still a puppy to many folks. BM> Hmmm: still not toilet trained hence the Depends?! DS> Who told you?? . That wasn't a brown shag carpet! DS> Seriously, as one gets older, their muscles and sphincters DS> (urinary and anal) get weaker. Even a small thing as a cough or a DS> sneeze causes you to soil your undergarments. Both early and late DS> in life, success is "not doing that". :P Youth: the trying to show off a bulge is a sock. Old age: not trying to show off the incontenience device bulge. DS> One time, I wasn't paying attention, and I bought the women's DS> one's by mistake (it would've helped if I noted the pictures of a DS> male or a female, and the color of their outfits). I wonder about the packaging in Scotland when men wear kilts! DS> 5) "So, I have an antenna, and you have a USB port". Now that's a new one! DS> Lastly, Dec. 1 is the 30th anniversary of my Sysop DS> career...starting on a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 laptop, with DS> a 1200 baud modem, and the SoftMail and Mini-Net programs for DS> "The World's Smallest BBS". While I no longer have the computer, DS> the programs are still in the BBS's file area. On my 32nd DS> birthday, a friend of my brother's (who I hadn't met yet) gave me DS> an 8088 XT computer, with 640K of RAM, DOS 3.2, a 20 Mb hard DS> drive, a monochrome green monitor, a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy DS> drive, a keyboard, and a mouse. Arkansas Children's Hospital was DS> upgrading their entire computer setup, so they basically were DS> "giving stuff away". That became the birthplace of The DS> Thunderbolt BBS in May, 1992. There is a bulletin on the BBS, DS> with its history. Where I worked in NH before moving out here (IA) the company was an electronics firm -- main known contracts were the 'Wizard of Avis' (portions of their computer system) and contracts with the federal govenment. They had a 'store' where extra parts were available --> cheaper to buy a million of a component than the 900,000 they really needed. For a lot of the discrete resistors, capacitors, etc., it wasn't worth the cost of the paperwork to charge for quantities under ten or so, so could go in, "I need ten 47K ¬ watt resistors please" "here you go!". Some damaged builds were also available for cheap. ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... Q: What's brown & sounds like a bell? A: Dung. --- 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) .