Subj : Posts To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sun Dec 08 2019 10:12:00 Hi Nancy! NB>>> Yes, we do miss Daryl... ;0 And I've been having exceptionally NB>>> busy days lately, myself.... BM>> He does seems inundated by the whole thing at times. I try to remind BM>> him and give examples of how to just do a small project at a time: BM>> just clean out a drawer at a time, rest and do a small 'celebration'and BM>> soon the whole dresser is done. NB>> Like my tagline of days attacking at once, it seems weeks have ganged NB>> up on him to attack all at once... Sometimes a small project at a NB>> time just doesn't seem to be accomplishing anything those times... BM> Right. Daryl seemed to be overwhelmed by the large project (I have to BM> clean the room) so I tried suggesting to take it as a bunch of small BM> projects. A dresser drawer may be too small, up to him. Idea was to BM> attack the job differently so less overwhelming. NB> Sometimes that can help, sometimes not... :) I take it you are NB> able to be in ongoing contact with him, then...? Yes, Daryl has been e-mailing me. Sometimes he's in pretty good spirits, sometimes not, and can change within the e-mail (not too surprising as even through I'm reading as one sitting could be interrupted and so done as several time frames). Last issue was the person who was supposed to pick up his late mother's clothes possibly could be backing out; good news is he did find an alternative. And for whatever reason the Little Rock Salvation Army doesn't have a truck to pick up donations; local one to me does, not sure about local Goodwill, DAV/Disabled American Veterans does. NB>>>> If they are boxed, they'd still be not too hard to wrap, though... BM>>> These were sold without cartons. Have seen (and received) boxed solar BM>>> lights. NB>>> So find boxes for them, and make your wrapping easier... or stuff them NB>>> in a large Christmas-themed shopping bag with lots of tissue paper to NB>>> cover them... ;) BM>> Yes, I'll figure out something. Or since it's a requested gift and BM>> they know what they're getting other than the specific style just put BM>> something fun/festive/holiday-weird-but-appropriate over the solar BM>> light head. NB>> That could work, too... :) BM> Since then haven't even thought of packaging ideas. NB> Unless you want to just get them done and set aside, there's not NB> really a rush yet... ;) No, but getting there: the Family Christmas is this Saturday (December 14th). NB>>> Yup.... The younger generation has pretty much taken over the running NB>>> of the gifting part of the celebration... I used to be pretty good at NB>>> finding individual gifts for a dollar or less that would be greatly NB>>> appreciated by the recipient... and nice family gifts for under $10... BM>> Now they don't use pencils so those and pencil sharpeners are out, as BM>> probably pens, paper -- except printer paper..... NB>> You might be surprised... even the kids appreciate pens, pencils, NB>> etc... always some use for them.... :) BM> Autumn is into drawing and I somewhat expect her to continue as her BM> mother is artistic, so pens, pencils, coloured pens and pencils, BM> supplies, etc., will probably be easy gifts. I have a holder with a BM> variety of coloured pens, markers and highlighters -- yes, slightly BM> colourblind but I still colour code! Autumn uses those when she BM> brings up her sketch pad. NB> That's handy, then... :) Even slightly colorblind, you probably NB> see the colors as being somewhat different from each other.... Yes: glancing at the holder there happens to be a pink marker and a pink highlighter next to each other: close but definitely different cap colours. BM>>> Right. I've had to update our cell phones: our current ones are quite NB> NB>> Wizard thinks it's more likely something with the service provider NB>> (maybe Sprint?) that TracFone is using in your area for your phones... NB>> and explained that to have VoLTE, I'd have to be getting my voice NB>> calls over data, which my phone can't do at all anyway... I do NB>> regularly check my texts (the message that I have them pops up on the NB>> little screen and has to be dealt with before I can do anything else NB>> with the phone), and I know I've received no such message... Oh, and NB>> my provider is AT&T... BM> OK, seems like you've got things checked out and won't need to update. BM> Here the TracFones piggyback on Verizon and they are dropping -- BM> whatever the old is. NB> Just as well that my current cellphone is TracFone with AT&T, NB> then... the last one was using Verizon.... The only problem might be if you roam into an area only served by Verizon. I'm thinking that's now extremely rare. (Back in my cell phone selling days at the store we originally warned our customers because the Williamsburg IA area was roaming; no big deal other than there is a large shopping center there. For whatever reason the original carrier couldn't get an agreement in that area; has been taken care of since.) BM>> ...The old Menard's (hardware chain store) here had a tiny food/snack BM>> section and sold large containers of pretzels which were quite good BM>> -- almost was worthwhile to make a special trip. NB>> One can find interesting things in odd places... :) BM> Yes - I do like to wander a bit; one never knows what one will find! BM> And clearance is fun -- 99% of the time nothing worthwhile but.... NB> You just never know what you might find when and where... ;) True! 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