Hi Mike,

On Tue 2012-Oct-30 15:56, Mike Roberts (1:261/1381) wrote to Richard Webb:



 RW> YEp, but a lot of Des MOines was without electrical power, took out
 RW> their main generator during the flood, and no running water.
 RW> Meanwhile I'm flipping pancakes on the coleman stove, the coffee's
 RW> hot and tehy had to drive to the burbs for their Mickey D's fix or
 RW> whatever.  WE were meanwhile doing pretty good.

MR> I can just imagine  So Funny!

IT was.  When my neighbor saw me rigging the catch system
for the output of the sump pump in preparation for
electricity he got a laugh out of it, but when I started
heating pans of water so that we could take cat baths, and
then shampooed my hair and redirected the output of the sump pump to rinse my
hair he decided that was a real idea, and
he started raiding my barrel for same purpose.  I let him
use the coleman stove to heat some water for cat baths for
him and his wife too.

 RW> YEp, I'm monitoring the Salvation army ham radio network as well as
 RW> usual.  Nope, I don't do television of any kind, old blind man
 RW> doesn't have any interest, but I'll probably listen to some radio

MR> Good for You... My Mom was Blind. I can relate. She would sit up by
MR> the tv  and listen to be with the rest of the Family. But I think it
MR> was from her  that I got my liking of listening rather than always
MR> watching. She loved  Tapes of Old Time Radio I would collect and
MR> make for her and she loved her  little scanner and listening to talk
MR> radio. We'd all laugh, her favorite show  to listen to was Bruce
MR> Williams and he would always talk about Money  management and
MR> investing etc. We'd all say, Hey Ma, You don't have any money  why
MR> do You listen to him. She just loved it. Never invested a dime. But
MR> then  again she was always going to win the lottery, but never
MR> bought a ticket. :) 

  I know people like that.

My remote truck has done audio for television, and I've
worked in that side of it, but I haven't cared to own a
television now for years.  I'm so active with ham radio etc. that I don't miss
it.  I listen to shortwave radio for news, as well as the am and fm bands, npr
etc.  I remember the
last television we owned back around '97 we gave to my
daughter since my grandson was doing tv withdrawal and we
had to dust the stupid thing, we never turned it on.  Then
we had to hunt for the remote in boxes, we hadn't unpacked
it when we moved 6 months before then.


Regards,
           Richard
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