Subj : Taxes
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sun Aug 24 2025 17:08:05

Hi Dave,

 DD> Sometimes when ahurricane hits along thee Gulf of Mexico - like
 DD> Katrina in '05,it will come right up theMississippi and give us an
 DD> unwelcome bath.. And spawn tornadoes. Eeeeeewwwww.

 RH> We were in Hawaii when that hit--but out there at one point one summer,
 RH> we had 5 hurricanes coming at us. There was enough ocean between us and
 RH> them that they all fizzled out before hitting land.

 DD> Aren't Pacific hurricane called "typhoon" (from "tai fun" or"supreme
 DD> wind")

 RH> They are, on the other side of the International Date Line. This side,
 RH> they're still hurricanes.

 DD> Oh. Okay.

Just one of those bits of trivia you pick up in some odd time/place. (G)


 DD> I can recommend "Typhoon" byJoseph Conrad for your reading pleasure.

 DD> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3537012-typhoon

 RH> Have to check it out, thanks.

 DD> It was a good read for me. Never got tedious or made me want to jump
 DD> ahead.

I'll see if I can get it for my Nook; we're running short of book shelf
space.

 DD> I have three Asus EEE PCs that I have picked up over the years. Mostly
 DD> I use them as jukeboxes - playing music while I work on something.

 RH> We had a couple of them at one point; Dale suggested them when we
 RH> thought Steve was going to be deployed. It was something easy to use
 RH> and with both of us having one, if I developed a problem, he could
 RH> trouble shoot. Turned out, he never deployed so we eventually moved on.
 RH> In 2020, we donated them (and others) to the school system so students
 RH> who were trying to learn remotely on phones could have something
 RH> better.

 DD> Schools are finding that they need ban phones in the classrooms if
 DD> they want their pupils to learn.

True, but 5 years ago when everything was shut down tight and parents
wanted to have their children continue their learning, teaching thru
Zoom was really big. Some kids had no computers at home but a parent
might have a smart phone that the kid could use. Teachers quickly found
out that phone screens were not as good as PC screens so around here, a
lot of appeals were put out for used but still useable computers. We
contributed the EEPCs (eeps's) and some others we had, after Steve
cleaned them up, put on some basic work programs, etc. Helped us (a bit
more room, soon to be replaced by radio equipment) and helped several
kids learn better.


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Catch you later,
Ruth
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