-=> Quoting Daryl Stout to Nancy Backus on 03-31-19  10:50 <=-

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

OK... 

 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...?
 DS> Actually, they finished it last Tuesday. The problem was with all my
 DS> bills this month, I didn't have the money to pay the $37 repair bill.
 DS> $1100 a month on disability doesn't go very far.
 
True.  Our mechanics would have let us take the car home in a similar
situation.... as they say, they know where we live, so they trust us to
come up with the money in good time... meanwhile, they don't have to
store the vehicle....  

 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....
 DS> I can't sit at the computer chair for very long, due to degenerative
 DS> disk disease in my spinal column, diagnosed a year and a half ago.
 DS> When told that, I thought "Well, they won't take away my disability
 DS> now". I was getting "reviews" every 5 years. Every time they ask "Is
 DS> your health better?", or "Have you returned to work?", both answers are
 DS> a resounding "NO"!!

I understand that after a certain age, the reviews stretch to 8 years...
and once you turn 65 or so (maybe just 62), the disability turns into
regular retirement, and there aren't any more reviews... 

 DS> Even when sent a prospective juror questionnaire, I noted such.

There are some things that do work against being able to serve as a
juror... 

 DS> The flies in the ointment, healthwise, are that I never
 DS> know when another kidney stone, IBS, or migraine attack, is going to
 DS> hit...and besides the financial issue, that's keeping me from
 DS> traveling, and I hate that. I wanted to do one more trip before
 DS> "retiring from traveling".

Hopefully you will be able to get that last chance...  

 NB>> Lye can be pretty corrosive... I think that the lye soap at least made
 NB>> it safer to use... 
 DS> Cresosote, which is what is put on railroad wooden crossties, is
 DS> also extremely corrosive. It helps keep the crossties from rotting too
 DS> quick, but I *LOVE* the smell of it. Many railroads have switched to
 DS> concrete crossties...and while more expensive, they last far longer
 DS> than the wooden ones.

And are probably less of a danger to the environment... 
 
 NB>> All the more reason not to insult them...  period... <G>
 DS> I remember the late Steve Irwin, having the crocodiles at the zoo in
 DS> Australia, and two of them, Agro and Bindy, had "attitudes". They're
 DS> coming at him, hissing, etc., and he's saying "Come here,
 DS> sweetheart"!! <G>.
 DS> He and his Dad were hunting for them one time, and they had built
 DS> what they thought was a fortified cage to hold the reptile...but the
 DS> crocodile would have none of it, and he broke loose from it. Everyone
 DS> was stunned. His one daughter, named Bindy, is a very attractive young
 DS> lady, and I'm sure her Mom, Terry (Steve's widow) will be very
 DS> protective of her. Bindy has a brother, but I forget what his name is
 DS> offhand.
 DS> Tragically, Steve was killed by a sting from a stingray a few years
 DS> ago. 

Yes, I remember all that...  

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


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

As you know, I'm not a fan of Windows... and am still happily using
DOS...  Richard uses mostly DOS, and has installed Linux on some of his
machines which he uses second most.... Some of his machines do have
Windows, partly because there are times when he has to check something
out on multiple platforms... and partly because for some things one has
to use something from Windows to do certain things on the web... I've
learned that Windows10 can be useful for a few things... at least the
machine he has with the Win10 is a touchscreen, which makes things a
little less upsetting for me... 

 DS> ■ OLX 1.53 ■ The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.

Only because you can't reach it to subdue it... 

ttyl        neb

... A bird in the hand makes it hard to blow your nose.

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