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   REPLY: 24.fidonet-survivor@1:19/33 23bda083   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi, Daryl!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
    EV>  I can use it all over my back.   
      
    AH>  The handle is flexible too.  Very clever....  :-)   
      
    DS>  I have no idea what I did with the one I had. Kind   
    DS>  of awkward to scratch up against the door frame. :P   
      
      
             Yeah.  I find the latter unsatisfactory, but I take it bears & other   
   animals scratch themselves on trees when they're moulting or whatever....  :-)   
      
      
      
   [WRT the traditional Chinese back scratcher]   
    AH>  Our daughter has one like that.  She's never used it   
    AH>  very often, but keeps it for decorative & sentimental   
    AH>  reasons....  :-)   
      
    DS>  I haven't been to the fair in ages...and this years   
    DS>  Arkansas State Fair was cancelled due to COVID-19.   
      
      
             Understood.  Dallas & I live in a seaport, where it's easy enough to   
   obtain such things if you know who to ask.  But anything which involves a trip   
   downtown (except to St. Paul's hospital) is out of the question just now.  :-)   
      
      
      
    DS>  Years ago, my late uncle had been separating the   
    DS>  recycled items into one container, and the regular   
    DS>  trash into another. But, one day, he saw the trash   
    DS>  folks putting everything together. He never separated   
    DS>  them again.   
      
      
             Hmm.  I am reminded of a friend who, like us, is getting on in years   
   and finding it increasingly difficult to sort plastics by number... as we were   
   told to do by municipal authorities.  When I saw they were all dumped into the   
   same receptacle I quit sorting them, just as he had done.  "Plastics go in the   
   plastics bin", as he puts it.  And someone with "twenty-year old eyes", as our   
   optometrist puts it, can sort them out if that is actually necessary....  :-))   
      
      
      
   [WRT bottle brush with an "extra long" handle]   
    DS>  I may have to look for that, but the electric company   
    DS>  apparently took me off of levelized billing. I've got   
    DS>  to call them in the morning to sort things out, plus   
    DS>  find out how to logon, as they've lost my logon info.   
    DS>  At least due to COVID-19, they're not doing disconnects   
    DS>  for the non-payments right now, as so many are in   
    DS>  financial straits.   
      
      
             I'm glad various organizations are recognizing that folks may not be   
   able to adhere to the usual time frame at present.  OTOH, they may not be able   
   to work quite as efficiently as usual.  The public library here suspended late   
   return fees for awhile... but I'm still waiting for a book I asked for on Aug.   
   24th even though it's listed as available for loan & I'm #1 in the queue.  :-Q   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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