Subj : Various Things To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Tue Dec 27 2022 08:15:00 Hi Daryl! BM> Now to pray for a headache remedy! DS> That's like the joke about the guy's wife napping in bed. He DS> wakes her up with some aspirin and a glass of water, as she had DS> been "puny" a few days earlier. She asked what the pills were DS> for, and her husband said "A headache". When she said "I haven't DS> got a headache", he replied "That's what I've been waiting to DS> hear". Sneaky! BM> Especially here it's just after breakfast! DS> Every day is a new chance...to screw things up. Well if we take a carpeter's screw and screw it clockwise we're turning into the wood so holding things together. And clockwise is loosenging, which sometimes is a bad thing and sometimes a good thing, depending on the desired outcome. ...And now to continue to attept to achieve Nirvana through comtemplations of my navel. BM> I eat my peas with honey, BM> I've done it all my life. BM> It makes the peas taste funny BM> But it keeps them on the knife! DS> I think of the joke about the difference between prose and DS> poetry. Poetry rhymes, but prose does not. DS> Little Mary got careless, and fell into a well. DS> Tragically, she couldn't swim, and died and went to... DS> Well, what do you want?? Prose or Poetry?? I was thinking the finish was "smell" because she was now a rotting corpse. (Got out of that one!) BM> Got that. Have also seen where there was a scientific paper of which BM> the researchers determined kids' eating of -- umm - their nasal BM> discharge provided a boost to their immune systems. (I'm wondering BM> what's the difference to just swallowing it?) DS> I saw another story where that was snot the case, health DS> wise...and it was nothing to sneeze at. :P This should be submitted to the National Institute of Health!! BM> Probably would be even better to stop and take a break before your BM> notice. Maybe get one of those timer utilites where it overlays your BM> screen with a reminder to take a break. DS> There was an ANSI TSR several years ago, that was harmless, but DS> after a set number of keystrokes, it would do one of the DS> following!! DS> 1) Flash a sign screaming "GET BACK TO WORK!!" DS> 2) Have an ANSI of a clown flicking his tongue at you. DS> 3) Act like the computer was out of order, but all you would need DS> to do is hit ANY key to restore things. I still haven't found DS> that one, or the control key, the day, I lost CTRL. You have to think ALTernately: SHIFT to a different mindset! BM> I think the Medicare Supplement I currently have (for 2022) would have BM> gone up a few dollars except my financial advisor found a better plan BM> and so I'll be saving around $35 a month. DS> When you have to live on the cheap, you do whatever you can. I DS> can only splurge on ordering out once a month now. I'm sort of so-so on eating out this year: food hasn't been as good as it should have been, and not because the kitchen was swamped. Example: went to breakfast with friends: toast was presented properly: two slices, diagonally cut, butter between the two slices. Mine was correct, the other two's butter was excessive: too much to melt and actually didn't look like butter nor margerine -- we weren't really sure what it was. Otherwise the meal was good but nothing spectacular albeit expensive. Oh well. BM> You're going to hate me: maybe ten or more years ago my Credit Union BM> offered an ID Plan for $1 a month! Definitely keeping my payments on BM> that one! DS> Well, after going through Chapter 13 Bankruptcy in 2009, I no DS> longer have a credit card...just a bank debit card. I think my CU is offering 'points' with their debit card -- not sure as I don't use it; credit card is better for me. I find writing down each transaction -- use pen onto ledger -- keeps the "it's cash!" concept up in front of my mind. The bigger the total becomes means the more money I'll have to take from my bank accounts to pay it back. For some people that method works. I also drive people 'nuts' by not having separate "Christmas Money". Well, back when got an envelope with money in it at Christmas.... To me it's all 'money' and I've rarely gone on a shopping spree just because I was given money. Save it for later when I do want something. BM> I'm not sure on the medical specialists one. Medicare has a deductible BM> and fee schedule - I just verify the amounts and pay. Initially I was BM> thinking the $25 was a co-pay even though didn't read that way, so for BM> the co-pays topic I don't know: all of a sudden I didn't need to pay a BM> co-pay. As for saving $25, works for me! DS> As noted, wherever you can save, works. And sometimes not taking the savings is the better option. Needed full-coverage insurance on my car when I first bought it; after it was paid to a certain point I could drop down to whatever the partial- coverage level is called. The difference between the two rates was only $5-6 dollars a month. Hmm: get fully paid for a replacement or get paid ~$1000 'cause the car is so old and have saved $60-70 a year....? BM> You can celebrate the first trash collection of 2023 with me! DS> That reminds me...I need to take the garbage out, although none DS> of it was from Christmas stuff. There was nothing Christmas DS> related here... no decorations, music, lights, trees, gifts, etc. But that makes clean-up so much easier! BM> Uh-huh! I'm thinking if toilet tank water was the last thing available BM> I'd drink it after semi-purifying it: boil it and maybe also a few BM> drops of bleach. As for the bowl water: no amount of boiling and BM> bleach...! DS> I saw a meme where the dog was screaming "Dude!! That's My DS> Water Bowl!!" I saw one where the man is carrying out the Christmas Tree and the dog is carring out the toilet. DS> So, you want to skip 2023 and 2024?? :P BM> For you, yes! DS> No, I'm not transferring my wealth the next 2 years to you. DS> Besides, a penny is a dollar with all the taxes taken out. BM> on him. Ended up they were looking for him for an incident a few BM> blocks from here. DS> At least they got their man. Yup! Actually it was kind of funny: after the call I was looking out the window onto the street and a silent police car roars past towards where I said the guy was running. ("Silent": lights flashing but no siren.) BM> We got about 2" of snow two days ago, lowest air temperature I remember BM> was -11øF, wind chill of -47øF. Currently (Saturday morning at 7:30) BM> it's -1øF, WC -21øF. Good news: supposed to warm up to about 4 or 5 BM> degrees above!! End of the week supposed to be in the low 40's!! DS> They are talking thunderstorms (some severe), with flooding DS> rain the latter part of this week...and early next week could DS> have a significant area of severe weather, according to some long DS> range progs I've seen. Was 2ø when I woke up this morning; forecast is for mid-40's on Friday and Saturday. Meteorologist commented plus pointing to a graphic close to a 100ø difference between the -40 and -50ø wind chills a few days ago. (A hare flawed because one temperature is wind chill and the other is not but still is a drastic difference in only a few days.) BM> Yup! I haven't been out of the house except to get the mail. Too cold BM> to shovel plus would just blow back anyway. There are pine needles on BM> the snow in the front yard -- the trees are along the fence in the back BM> yard! DS> I lost power for 30 seconds the other morning, but left the DS> faucets dripping to ensure the pipes wouldn't freeze. A slightly DS> higher water bill is a lot cheaper than calling a plumber. Definitely!! I have a small digital thermometer with a several foot probe stuck under the bezel/cap thingie to monitor the temperature under the floor where the hot water comes through (it's the colder of the two as in different joist spaces). Temperature displays too close to 32ø, start the dripping! (Both.) ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... What if there were no hypothetical questions?? --- 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) .