Subj : Posts To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sun Dec 29 2019 07:39:00 Hi Nancy! Whoa! Must have been some party Friday: only one message uploaded Saturday! BM>> No, but getting there: the Family Christmas is this Saturday (December BM>> 14th). NB>> And now it's already happened... or didn't the weather cooperate NB>> after all...? BM> Weather cooperated: cold but not bone-chilling. Dinner came out BM> nicely. Minor problem initially with the turkey: had purchased one with BM> the pop-out thermometer. Well, the thermometer itself had popped out! BM> More looked like never inserted in to the breast but there was a little BM> tear in the skin where it seems like it should have gone. Good news BM> was the thermometer was found in the bottom of the overwrap so just BM> stuck it in. NB> And, then I suppose, it worked as it was supposed to... :) Yes. And the turkey was nice and tender. Rest of the meal came out good also. :) BM> Oh, as for the wrapping of the solar lights, took some paper towel BM> tubes and inserted them over the stake portion. Loosely wrapped gift BM> wrap over the top (lighted) portion and twisted and so sort of looked BM> like the fancy wrapped Christmas candies. NB> That worked... :) It did. I'l just have to hold my decorated-paper-plates-as-a-covering for some other time. NB>> And as long as the colors are different when used, you'd still be NB>> able to distinguish between them, I'd guess... BM> Yes, though the missing detail is one set is a marker and the other BM> highlighters. I think when I got the markers they were out of stock BM> of the highlighters, plus tired of shopping (five minutes is more than BM> enough! ) and so got the markers thinking they'd work as BM> highlighters. Well, they do highlight on the page but tend to BM> obliterate the text! Was thinking of giving them to Autumn but won't: BM> keep them up here and when Autumn wants to come up and visit/change of BM> scenery she has the coloured markers, highlighters and pens to draw BM> with. NB> I'd seen that little detail before... yes, markers will act as NB> highlighters, but you do need to use thin line, and only NB> underline carefully, not cover the entire text... And tend to be not that cautious. I can draw fine lines, under text, but then I get in a bit of a hurry as the reading is more important than the highlighting. Plus some of the markers bleed through the paper so underlining or marking through the wrong text. Better to just do it with the right device. BM>> The only problem might be if you roam into an area only served by BM>> Verizon. I'm thinking that's now extremely rare. (Back in my cell BM>> phone selling days at the store we originally warned our customers BM>> because the Williamsburg IA area was roaming; no big deal other than BM>> there is a large shopping center there. For whatever reason the BM>> original carrier couldn't get an agreement in that area; has been BM>> taken care of since.) NB>> It seems that in most areas now the carriers have made agreements NB>> to service each other's customers, or allow use of their tower NB>> for the other carrier... BM> Yes. I don't know who much roaming occurs now. I sort of figure if I BM> need to use the cell phone I need to use it regardless of the BM> credits/units being withdrawn. Of course I'm not using the phone just BM> to watch videos or listen to music, etc. NB> I've not seen the difference with "roaming" costs on my phone for NB> ages... it's always the same charge of one unit for each minute NB> or fraction of for talk and .30 units for each text (with longer NB> texts counting as two or three texts)... not usually using data NB> charges which are weird on my phone, just roll along the small NB> fractions that add up... ;) Using to watch videos or listen to NB> music would have to be something actually on the phone and that NB> doesn't take any units, just wears down the battery... mine NB> doesn't really access the web.... Some time ago I looked at the coverage map for this area and there are some places in or around smaller towns where it appears I'd be roaming. Oddly quite a few were along small creeks/brooks. That didn't make sense as transmission is usually in a circle, so would have appeared as dots. Maybe the slightly lower terrain along the water? Don't expect to chat while fishing? BM> No idea on the tower arrangements now. Know used to be one would get BM> good reception on the back deck or front sidewalk so drive along and BM> see people pacing along the sidewalk, etc. You might remember last BM> summer a tower collapsed on top of a bank building here. (The tower BM> was on the roof of the building.) I never heard of whose tower, nor BM> any service interruptions/issues. NB> Dunno as I remember that incident.... but good that there weren't NB> any ussues from the one tower collapsing... maybe it was mostly NB> redundent... Or maybe it wasn't a cell tower, or at least not one for public use. ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... 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