Subj : HamData Callsign Updates To : Barry Martin From : Daryl Stout Date : Sun Jun 05 2022 20:03:00 Barry, BM> We have a radio in ours. :) ...No, not so much for aural entertainment BM> but when the kids were growing up we could monitor for school closings BM> and delays. Got used to it so just left it. (Radio plugs into a BM> switched outlet so when the bathroom light is flipped on the radio also BM> comes on. Older mechanical tuning so maintains the station.) Music to do your business by. :P Or you listen to the scary stuff if you're bound up, to save the work of an enema. I understand that the presidential health plan doesn't cover enemas, so health care workers have to slap the [crap] out of you. :P BM> That's not fair! I've done electrical work around the house; one BM> 'rule' I have is I hang around for some time after done just in case BM> something goes wrong. Nothing has, not paranoia, just a matter of I BM> guess verification. When we had the house wiring updated I asked the BM> electricians about my work. They knew I had been trained by someone in BM> electronics as the connections were better mechanically: twist the BM> wires together before being put in wire nuts, curved to fit around BM> screw terminals. Electricans usually leave the wire straight so easier BM> to remove later. They also liked I had identified many of the wire BM> runs. My 'bad score' was I tended to leave a couple extra inches of BM> wire termination - more room to do the work, harder to stuff the excess BM> into the box. While electricians get into peoples shorts (never mind looking for a lot to plug things in ), it doesn't even take an amp of electricity to do you in. BM> I can kind of see that: I don't know when my driver's license is BM> expiring. OTOH I have a note card with the expiration date in a BM> notebook ==> notebook has the twelve months plus 'next year'. Last BM> year I had a dental appointment so the six-month appointment card goes BM> the appropriate section of the notebook. My driver's license doesn't BM> expire this year so it goes in the 'next year' section. Used some old BM> 3«" floppy disk drive page holders for appointment cards and the like, BM> along with top-loading page protectors for larger items. I also use BM> electronic reminders (calendar function), just the 'old school' part of BM> me likes a paper reminder. The car tags I have to renew yearly, but I have to assess and then pay the personal property taxes each year. This year, it's going to be either borrow some money to pay for it, or sell the car. Besides, medical issues may take it to that point, anyway. The drivers license always expired on the birthday...and it was originally good for only 4 years, but this last time, I got it renewed for 8 years. But, even if I have to give up driving, I'm going to keep it, in case of an emergency, plus it has that "enhanced ID" with it, so I could get into the Federal Building downtown, or if I had to fly. BM> I'm not going by that 'rule'!! And my Mother was driving past her 93rd BM> birthday last Spring -- restricted herself to 'good conditions', so BM> didn't drive in the rain nor snow. She stopped because she was BM> hospitalized after she fell and injured her leg. If the bad leg is the one you used the pedals with (too dangerous driving with one foot on the gas, and one on the brake), it's best to give it up. BM> I replaced a light because the bulb died! There's a certain sincere logic in that. BM> Generally yes. I can usually taste a slight difference between BM> generic/house brand food and national brands, though there are times BM> when I prefer the taste of the house brand over the national brand. The price of everything has gone up so much, that I'm limited on what I can buy, let alone eat. The latter is because I have to watch the sodium intake now. BM> You'd love me eating French fries, tater tots, and the like! I prefer BM> 'neat' food so a squirt of ketchup off to the side. The salt tends to BM> not stick to the potato so I'll salt the ketchup and get the flavour BM> that way. ...About the only food I salt other than peanut butter. Now, you've got me hungry for fries and tots. :P DS> (yes, I'm asking for it ). BM> That could exlain a few things!! Well, some of the echoes are dead as doornails. BM> Here comes another asteroid! Fire torpedo to destroy it. D@mn -- missed...we're doomed. :P BM> Some people wil take offence to anything, some pretty much find BM> anything amusing/with a message/etc. Some of these folks basically need to get a life. BM> Some people just naturally pepper their speach with 'dirty words'. Which proves "profanity is the attempt of a feeble mind to express itself forcibly". Now, one werty derd once in a blue moon (that shows up in the smurf nursery or proctology lab ), isn't too bad...but so many things have the lyrics, etc. "drowning" in it. BM> Don't wear certain shades of clothing else you'll disappear! It's funny to watch that happen...at least it's not just their clothing that disappears, and shows them in their underwear, or nude. :P BM> About all one can do with a live broadcast. True. BM> Seems thos fidgit spinners were a very short-lived must-have. Well, someone made some money...but it was a passing fad. Now, the guy who invented the Loofa Dog chew deal, is laughing all the way to the bank. BM> So all we have to do is monitor New Zealand! Problem solved! Basically, yes. BM> But gold is supposed to last forever! DS> Until its melted down. :P BM> From the heat of the EMP? Probably so. BM> What's worse it I do my mail after breakfast. That wasn't 'Fruity BM> Pebbles' in the cereal bowl! Sort of like the cartoon of the dog named Grimm, his old lady mistress, Mother Goose, and the cat named Atilla (what a name for a feline)...called Mother Goose And Grimm. Grimmy says to Atilla "I found Tootsie Rolls in your litter box"...and the cat growls "Grimmy...I've got news for you". DS> Like the meme of this railroad locomotive spouting legs..."we DS> have a runaway train". BM> I thought it was an escapee from the bride's dress! I saw one video where apparently the bride forgot undergarments, and "she remained in bare bottom". :P DS> If you're married to her, don't let her get into a rear end DS> collusion with you, and don't bend over if she's behind you. :P BM> What they do in privacy is up to them. This is true. BM> Precisely! Oo! Projective vomiting! You're sick. BM> Q: How do you kill a circus troupe? BM> A: Go for the juggler! DS> You're clowning around again. BM> It is sometimes like a three-ring circus around here! At least the echo is active. :P Daryl .... Coffee is vital for survival. The dinosaurs didn't have it, and died out. === MultiMail/Win v0.52 --- SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - Little Rock, Arkansas (454:1/33) .