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   Hi Dave,   
      
      
    DD> The yappies are  why the techs had to make a return visit. The cable   
      
    RH> Hopefully they learned that cable doesn't taste good and there will not   
    RH> be a repeat experience.   
      
    DD> Dunno, They're little  scutters. Pomeranian/Pekinese size Whereas  the   
    DD> smallest here is a blue-tick beagle. . Hopefully AT&T buried the cable   
    DD> deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep down.   
      
   Let's hope so. (G) We had a Bichon Frise for a while, about the same   
   size as the Pom/Peke's but much better behaved. She did chew one of the   
   rockers on my rocking chair when she was small but it was only slightly   
   damaged--enough to remember her by.   
      
    DD>      8<----- +++++----->8   
      
    RH> I like cream soda; I do not like Dr. Pepper. I'll probably never try   
    RH> the combination tho.   
      
    DD> My first go was when somoene handed me a bottle and I took a drink   
    DD> withut paying attention - until it hit my mouth.   
      
    RH> I'll ask what it is before drinking.   
      
    DD> This was a relatively stick-in-the-mud typre event with no reasone to   
    DD> exoect something n the "gotcha" category. But it sure go my attention.   
      
   I still try to peruse the available drinks or ask if offered one, what   
   it is. Did find out that Olive Garden has raspberry diet Coke when we   
   went there for lunch on Tuesday. I'm wondering if this means it will be   
   back as a choice in the "pick your own flavor" machines.   
      
      
    DD> I don't understand how soda route drivers think. Their pay is based   
    DD> partly on how much "profuct" they move. If I was delivering a product   
    DD> that sold out every week I'd leave more and smile all the way to the   
    DD> bank. I was   
      
    RH> They're not all like that. Steve's last civilian job before he went in   
    RH> the Army was filling soda machines at Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry   
    RH> Point. He had an established route, don't know how often he had to fill   
    RH> specific machines. Came home with some interesting coins from Marines   
    RH> who tried scamming the machines--he would replace them with quarters of   
    RH> his own and the odd ones got added to an informal coin collection.   
      
    DD> The Mexican cinco centavo (nickle) coin used to was the same   
    DD> size/weight as the US 25c coin (quarter) but worth (in exchange) about   
      
    RH> In Steve's case, he got more Korean and European coinage.   
      
    DD> All Ihave left of "odd" coinage is (if I remember where I put them)   
    DD> some Loonies and Teonies (Canadian dollar/two dollar coins.   
      
   I don't have any of them but do have an assortment of European countries   
   coinage as we were stationed in Germany pre EU. I've got a few Canadian   
   pennies, Mexican pesoes, various Asian coinage, also some Polish paper   
   money.   
      
    DD>  As they say "A pint's a pound, the world around." What we need is   
    a DD> good  five-cent nicklel.   
      
    RH> Now more than ever, now that the penny is going away.   
      
    DD> One of the lacals here quit doing pennies a could years ago. Roundibng   
    DD> each transaction to the neareast nickel. And not doing paper dollarsa.   
      
   When we were stationed in Germany, both the (American) post office and   
   bank on post dealt with pennies, all other facilities rounded to the   
   nearest nickel. IIRC, I rolled maybe a dollar or so in pennies over the   
   almost 6 years we were over there.   
      
      
    DD>      8<----- SNYP ----->8   
      
    DD> Memphis is sorta/kinda like Hot-lanta. I take the run-around roads and   
    DD> don't try going right through. Generally quicker and less flustrating.   
      
    RH> Best experience we had driving thru Atlanta was one January night,   
    RH> about 8 pm. By then, evening rush hour was over so we went thru with no   
    RH> slow downs. We've been on the leading edge of the evening (mid   
    RH> afternoon) rush hour and moved right along but the evening time was   
    RH> even smoother sailing. We'd stopped for a later supper about an hour   
    RH> outside the city, gave the traffic time to clear.   
      
    DD> When I was trailer trucking the big rigs were not allowed "downtown"   
    DD> unless there was a bill of lading for a local address.   
      
   We were either going thru with just our vehicle (car or truck) or   
   vehicle plus camper; the January trip was with the camper. We'd been out   
   west to visit our girls for Christmas, came home the southern route so   
   we could visit some friends in Alabama along the way. Also avoided any   
   storms going thru the central or northern part of the country. (G)   
      
      
    DD> No harder than when we were chirrun - especiallly if you're pre-TV as   
    DD> I wss.   
      
    RH> We got our first tv when I was 9 years old. Parents didn't listen to   
    RH> radio except in the morning to get latest news/school closings/etc. I   
    RH> don't really remember what we did pre tv, probably read a lot of books.   
    RH> I'll still turn off the tv and grab a book most nights.   
      
    DD> We got our 1st TV when I was 10 - do 1952. It got two stations since   
    DD> the UHF band was but a glimmer in Lee DeForrest's eyes.   
      
   We got our first one in the early 60s, maybe a year or so (don't   
   remember exactly) before the JFK assassination. Only got one station for   
   the first few years, then only 2 until I was in college & the local   
   cable guy talked my parents into hooking into a system that gave them a   
   lot of NYC channels. Later on, he tied one in a local (60 miles away)   
   station so folks could have local news/weather.   
      
    DD> I remember when my dad came home with a 17" table-top TV and it was   
    DD> the  "cutting edge" of technology. Heck, my confuser's monitor on   
    this DD> unit  is 27" And Dennis is usig the 45" boob tube in the front   
    room as DD> a monitor.   
      
   Steve used our only tv as a monitor for his C-64 for the first year or   
   so. I'd ask him to be done so I could catch news/weather at 10; he'd say   
   "OK" but Johnny Carson would be almost over before he'd quit. After a 3   
   month TDY, he used some of the pay saved from that to get a proper   
   monitor.   
      
   ---   
   Catch you later,   
   Ruth   
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