Subj : Re: weather was: food option To : Barry Martin From : Nancy Backus Date : Fri Jan 24 2020 01:08:38 -=> Quoting Barry Martin to Nancy Backus on 18-Jan-2020 08:13 <=- NB>> And so, last night, had an interruption while I was doing messages, NB>> and by the time I could get back to it, I was already running late NB>> for my bbs run.... so here we are.... ;) BM> Some things just have to be done. :) Yup... :) BM>> Yes, we all have lives and things don't always go as mentally BM>> scheduled. I was almost glad not to have much mail the past couple of BM>> days as they had been forecasting a rather nasty storm in this part of BM>> the country and seemed to be emphasizing scattered power outages. BM>> Have lighting, battery-operated radio; would be nice to be able to BM>> watch the weather report so did the battery project for the TV; solar BM>> cell recharge of the battery needs work still so charged up a spare BM>> battery. NB>> Some things do take a higher priority when issues like that loom... :) BM> Yes; didn't need at all, which is good. This weekend (and it's BM> Saturday morning as I type this) is another 'Beeg Schtorm'. Started BM> around 1 yesterday afternoon; probably got about 4" of snow; a little BM> hard to tell as drifting and blowing: by my car door is a drift and BM> there's bare ground near the rear bumper. Will go out later to move BM> the white stuff around, plus around noon the temperature is supposed to BM> start dropping to 0ø, Then the winds kick in; yesterday they indicated BM> around 40 MPH, today 30. Sounds a lot like what we got last weekend, too... And we're being promised some sort of storm this coming one, too. starting Saturday.. :) BM>> ...Got up, showered, getting dressed and thinking "ah, made it through BM>> the night without problems" -- click! beep! - beep! -- dark in the BM>> corner but another light on (is on UPS). Someone lost power BM>> somewhere! NB>> Sounds like it included you... ;) Hopefully not for too long a time, NB>> though... :) BM> We lost for about a second. Oh, that's not bad at all... :) BM>> help much for troubleshooting. Now if The Wizard is present, hears the BM>> fan rev fast, etc., he might tell you what it could mean and you learn BM>> to look and listen for additional signs and symptoms. :) NB>> Or be there, hear things actually sounding ok, and be able to reassure NB>> that things are probably fine... ;) BM> Definitely! Part of troubleshooting is knowing what is correct - BM> sight, sound, smell..... Yup. :) NB>>> I can well imagine... :) It may be FAT16, dunno... but I do recall NB>>> that it had something to so with how DOS works... BM>> If it's the 'wrong' format MS-DOS either doesn't see it or doesn't BM>> know what to do with it. Think of it as something like looking at a BM>> book written in a language other than English: says something, but no BM>> idea what. NB>> (Like me and Wizard-speak...? ) But yes, that's essentially how I NB>> remember it being explained before, that MS-DOS couldn't see or use it... BM> Yes, you and Wizard-speak! :) And sometimes the "motherly 'because'" BM> is sufficient: one can look at the "how is it formatted?" part, see BM> "Y", know it should be "X" and know that's the problem. Don't really BM> have to know more other than "because". Back to Wizard-speak... I don't need to really know anything other than that the Wizard does know what he's talking about and doing... ;) NB>>>> That will be a job for the Wizard... at least for a while yet... ;) BM>>> Yes, though probably an easy enough job to learn. You'll become The BM>>> Apprentice to the Wizard yet! NB>>> Nice theory... BM>> No? NB>> I don't expect to ever be a "senior apprentice", but I have referred NB>> to myself as the "sorcerer's apprentice" for a long time... but at a NB>> fairly low level... learned enough not to use spells I don't know NB>> the counter-spell for... BM> That in itself is smart! Keep yourself out of trouble, That's the idea... NB>>> Not all that strange... if the roads and the sidewalks were warm NB>>> enough, the snow wouldn't stick there until they cooled off a lot NB>>> more... Happens here all the time... :) BM>> Agree, and has happened numerous times before, just looks a little odd BM>> - guess I expect an all-or-none. Plus goes with my sort of BM>> wish-thought of it only snows on green surfaces ==> have the snow to BM>> make things wintery but no shovelling sidewalks, cleaning off cars, BM>> etc.! NB>> I'm with you on that last... my idea of a proper snowfall... ;) NB>> Generally, even if the streets and sidewalks stay clear, the cars NB>> might not, unless one has just been out driving them, though.... BM> Even then one can get a bit of a build up of snow and ice in protected BM> areas like the side mirrors and rear window. Especially if there's much of a wind blowing things about and into such areas... :) BM>>> I like the slightly random look over the straight-cut. NB>>> These actually are rather attractive... :) BM>> Does, :) House a nice colour with matching trim, landscaped yard; BM>> blah roof. NB>> We have the blah yard, but the roof is interesting, and the colour NB>> goes with the house and trim well... :) BM> And that 'blah yard' can probably be taken care of relatively easily. As long as one has the time and energy to work on it some... :) BM> To me a nice-looking house (and roof) with a blah yard is better than BM> the other way around. Though it's the people inside that count the BM> most! Indeed. :) ttyl neb .... This site is currently under retinkerative buildstruction thingmakery --- EzyBlueWave V3.00 01FB001F * Origin: Tiny's BBS - http://www.tinysbbs.com (454:1/452) .