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   REPLY: 29.fidonet-survivor@1:19/33 23f7492f   
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   Hi, Daryl!  Awhile ago you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
   AH>  Years ago, when we had a large white hairy dog, one of   
   AH>  of our friends dropped by unexpectedly & asked if the   
   AH>  living room carpet was new.  I chuckled & told him I   
   AH>  had just finished vacuuming.  Then I added "I guess you   
   AH>  thought we had a tweed carpet."  His expression told me   
   AH>  I was right....  :-))   
      
   DS>  Well, a blooper noted something called "carpet tunnel   
   DS>  syndrome"...but, that does have shaggy overtones to it.    
      
      
             A shaggy dog story?  Yeah, another blast from the past....  :-))   
      
      
      
   DS>  I am working with one of my hubs to get my BBS in the   
   DS>  cloud, so it can stay up all the time.   
      
      
             Sounds like a plan.  With many folks being unable to visit others in   
   person because of COVID-19, the computer is an important way to keep in touch.   
      
      
      
   DS>  After an 8 month hiatus, my club is to resume dancing   
   DS>  next month. However, they will take the forehead   
   DS>  temperature of everyone arriving, and masks are required.   
   DS>  Unfortunately most dancers are in the vulnerable age   
   DS>  group, and some have had COVID-19 (I heard of a dancer   
   DS>  and her Mom getting it twice!).   
      
      
             Hmm.  There is still a lot we don't know about this disease, and I'd   
   been wondering whether the same person could get it twice within a short time.   
   I've heard one's immunity to at least some variations on the common cold lasts   
   only for a couple of weeks afterwards.  And I myself have had the "90-day flu"   
   ... so nicknamed because it tended to come back after 90 days.  :-Q   
      
      
      
   DS>  My late wife, Janice, had poor vision, but she could find   
   DS>  errors in the bulletins on the BBS. At times, she said   
   DS>  "the E is dead"...like the dead roach on its back on the   
   DS>  floor. :P   
      
      
            Was she near-sighted?  I can certainly relate to that.  The last time   
   we went to the optometrist, I pointed out that there was dust on the lenses he   
   uses for testing... which were, of course, within a few inches of my own eyes.   
   He took my word for it because he's far-sighted & hadn't noticed... [chuckle].   
      
      
      
   DS>  I decided instead of wasting the points, to go ahead and   
   DS>  book a multi-segment train trip from Little Rock to Jackson,   
   DS>  MS (via San Antonio and New Orleans) next June for the   
   DS>  National Square Dance Convention. I only had to pay for one   
   DS>  segment ($301 total cost)...the Guest Rewards points paid   
   DS>  the rest. I get the Handicapped Sleeping Car berth all the   
   DS>  way, which includes an in-room toilet and sink...plus all   
   DS>  meals. I can take the mask off inside the compartment if I   
   DS>  wish, and the sleeping car attendant will bring the meals   
   DS>  and complimentary soft drinks.   
      
      
            Sounds nice.  I hope for your sake that the risk will be less by that   
   time than it is at present.  We experienced a slowdown of COVID-19 here during   
   the summer... and the rules were relaxed a bit.  But now we're into the second   
   phase & battening down the hatches again.  We're being strongly advised not to   
   travel unless we absolutely have to & large gatherings are prohibited....  :-)   
      
      
      
   AH>  * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)   
      
   DS>  The name sounds like where I've been at lately. :P   
      
   AH>  Glad to know you understand where I'm coming from...   
   AH>  [wry grin].   
      
   DS>  It reminds of the cartoon where this huge piece of silver   
   DS>  is in the street...the proverbial "fork in the road".    
      
      
            In English class we'd describe that as a live metaphor... which to me   
   is particularly amusing because I once found a dinner fork when I took a short   
   cut through the woods to the dumpster in a local campground.  It was on a path   
   which, though unofficial, showed signs of having been been used often....  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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