Subj : Spammers And More To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Thu Nov 25 2021 07:07:00 Hi Daryl! DS> Is the NC looking?? Good, now I can... !@#$%^&*() ERROR: Feed DS> Lost. BM> And that's why the Seven Second Delay is in place! DS> I haven't heard that term in awhile...although there is no such DS> thing on a live newscast. On the station I usually watch for news they have about a five second delay. BM> Makes sense. I'm thinking most spammers would not bother with varying BM> the port. DS> Well, it's still a shame we have to work to keep these twits DS> out. Agree. It's sort of like keeping bugulars out of one's house: we used to keep the doors unlocked, they wandered in, we lock the doors. They came in through the windows, we lock the windows. They jimmied open the slider, we put a stop down. They slide down the chimney -- wait, that's Santa. We want him! BM> But there's nothing like a radar sweep display on a 40" screen! DS> Sort of like the scene in Twister, where they were watching the DS> movie of a tornado...and the real thing ended up hitting the DS> drive thru movie theatre screen!! "Hey Martha, those sound and visual effects are really realistic!!" BM> I'm thinking of a combination of Lemon Law and the 3-day Change Your BM> Mind on Large Purchases (not the real title!) but then also there is BM> that "All Sales Final" one. DS> Well, they said they were working on trying to find the rig DS> that I said I turned in. I told them "I'm not going to lie about DS> something like that", but I think the employee was mad that they DS> lost a customer. Well, with the attitude they had, I had good DS> reason to bolt. Yes, some shops one can feel the attitude, and some times it's a good one and sometimes not. BM> Too dirty for even them??!!! (Whoooo!!) As for cleaning, I'm BM> presuming you mean the heavy-duty "Spring Cleaning" but you are doing BM> the keep-up weekly kind. As for whipping around a vacuum, canisters BM> are nice because the only part have to hold is the cleaning head and BM> wand. OTOH the canister itself can get stuck on furniture. As for BM> uprights, Eureka puts out a lightweight model (one drawback is it's BM> fan-first: pick up a pebble or other small item and can break off a fan BM> fin). Stick-vacs are also a consideration. DS> Both. :P The arthritis is really a bear, especially with cold DS> weather. I can't afford to have Molly Maid come by to do the DS> cleaning. As for the arthritis I'm thinking "a little dab will do ya". No, not grease to slicken the joints but do a little cleaning at a time: vacuum just the Living Room one day, the bedroom the next, etc. Do a small bit at a time to avoid tiring yourself out, Kitchen and bathroom might need more often so do in the morning, take a few hour break, then the Living Room/whatever room. DS> One routine that might help the current way of DS> money-handling is BM> to write it down. Not with computer programme but hand-write into a BM> Journal -- things tend to become more real when written by hand as BM> opposed to punching the number keys on the keyboard, DS> It's a hard time reading what I put in the checkbook...no DS> wonder I nearly flunked handwriting 55 years ago. :P (Assuming the checkbook ledger, not the carbonless copies.) I print the entry and use every other line. DS> These thin mint cookies don't taste anything like Girl Scouts. BM> I'm not sure I want to know how you know what a Girl Scout tastes like! DS> No sense of adventure. But, since I had to give up DS> caffeine, tea, candy, etc., I doubt I'll every be able to get DS> those items again. By doing so (to lower the heart rate), my DS> migraines have returned. Great. :( Would be nice if the return signified a retracing: return of the symptom on the return path to health. BM> And here I thought it was your mind being foggy, was just your view BM> through your glasses. DS> Well, licking them won't work. :P Those migranes are from metal or plastic toxicity from licking the frames!! BM> Agree, but not for a significiant amount of time. If the dog is BM> pulling that hard the handler is going to be doing something to regain BM> control. DS> If the dog flips you off, you've really got problems. :P Time to take the dog to Manners School! BM> We've had minor issues over the years. Anything that looks suspicious BM> (as in potentially broken) I now take a picture of before opening the BM> box, then of the opened box, etc. OTOH have also received unscathed BM> boxes and on opening the air bags inside are completely flattened. DS> It's like with Amtrak's Auto Train. Those are people's cars in DS> the auto carriers, so you can't handle them like gondolas full of DS> scrap metal. Though sometimes that "can't" seems more like "shouldn't". BM> I/we usually had to work opening shift on New Year's Day so wouldn't go BM> anyplace in the evening. (That's one of the problems of having a BM> repution of being responsible!) Might do a dinner and early BM> celebration. Plus I was raised out East, where Midnight is Midnight; BM> out here it's "5-4-3-2-1-Happy New Year!" -- but it's only eleven BM> o'clock!!! DS> As the song by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffet note, "It's 5:00 DS> somewhere". I'll drink to that! ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... Have you ever tried to eat a clock? It's very time consuming. --- 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) .