Nancy,

NB>Is that 40 packs of lunch meat packs meant to be 4...?  I keep looking
NB>at that to try to figure it out...   Or are they small packages...?

  It's 40. At 65 cents each. The slices are very thin...but 90 calories
each. The sodium content is a bit high (over 500 milligrams per
package), but if you don't have issues with salt, then it makes a good
sandwich snack. Just put it between 2 pieces of bread, add mustard,
bacon bits, etc., and it's lunch time.

NB> DS> after April 3, so I'm stuck at home for 10 days.

NB>Is that how long it'll take for the shop to be finished with it...?

  Actually, they finished it last Tuesday. The problem was with all my
bills this month, I didn't have the money to pay the $37 repair bill.
$1100 a month on disability doesn't go very far.

NB>I mostly don't stand at the stove any more... I can sit at the kitchen
NB>table, close enough to the stove to reach over and grab the pan to do a
NB>stir if needed, or just get up for a short time for a quick stir and
NB>then sit again....

  I can't sit at the computer chair for very long, due to degenerative
disk disease in my spinal column, diagnosed a year and a half ago. When
told that, I thought "Well, they won't take away my disability now". I
was getting "reviews" every 5 years. Every time they ask "Is your health
better?", or "Have you returned to work?", both answers are a resounding
"NO"!! Even when sent a prospective juror questionnaire, I noted such.
The flies in the ointment, healthwise, are that I never know when
another kidney stone, IBS, or migraine attack, is going to hit...and
besides the financial issue, that's keeping me from traveling, and I
hate that. I wanted to do one more trip before "retiring from
traveling".

NB>Lye can be pretty corrosive... I think that the lye soap at least made
NB>it safer to use... 

  Cresosote, which is what is put on railroad wooden crossties, is also
extremely corrosive. It helps keep the crossties from rotting too quick,
but I *LOVE* the smell of it. Many railroads have switched to concrete
crossties...and while more expensive, they last far longer than the
wooden ones.

NB>All the more reason not to insult them...  period... <G>

  I remember the late Steve Irwin, having the crocodiles at the zoo in
Austrailia, and two of them, Agro and Bindy, had "attitudes". They're
coming at him, hissing, etc., and he's saying "Come here, sweetheart"!!
<G>.

  He and his Dad were hunting for them one time, and they had built what
they thought was a fortified cage to hold the reptile...but the
crocodile would have none of it, and he broke loose from it. Everyone
was stunned. His one daughter, named Bindy, is a very attractive young
lady, and I'm sure her Mom, Terry (Steve's widow) will be very
protective of her. Bindy has a brother, but I forget what his name is
offhand.

  Tragically, Steve was killed by a sting from a stingray a few years
ago. At the memorial service at the zoo, they showed a blooper tape, and
everyone was howling in laughter. He was trying to thank these
"professionals" for helping him, but he could NOT say "professionals" to
save his life!! Everyone was laughing, and after numerous re-takes,
Steve finally went up to the camera, and said "Would you all just go
away??!!" <G>.

NB>... Program call to load Windows: "Here_piggy_piggy_piggy!"

  Really. I'm in a quandry to upgrade to Windows 10 later this year, if
finances work out. Basically, I'm being forced to by the greed of
Microsoft, because they're stopping security updates from Windows 7 in
early 2020. But, at $200 a pop, that's rather steep. Plus, it has to be
32-bit, or I won't do it. Besides the BBS, I only have ham radio and
square dancing as my 2 other hobbies...and I don't want any of them
going by the boards. One ham radio operator refers to Windows 10 as
"Satan's Little Sextoy".  I'm happy with Windows 7, but I'm afraid I'm
going to have to bite the bullet. Yet, if finances don't work out, I'm
staying with Windows 7.

Daryl
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