On Thursday 24 July 2014 10:12:52 dave did opine And Gene did reply: > <snip> > > Golly Gee Gene: > > The buck is a bit of exaggeration ...not long after you were born a > letter cost 3 cents to mail, I'm guessing gas was 18 cents/gal and we > got electricity for something like .5 cents/KWh. A scale factor of > approx 18 would make sense. Which suggest that your two cents, adjusted > by a SWAG comes out a bit more like 1/3 of a dollar. > Just being picky this morning; which by the way was a wonderful 47 > degrees overnite. > > Dave
Nice here too, low 60's. Light rain. Gas and cigarettes was 8 cents, bread was a nickel according to mother in 1934. Today a pack of those slim sandwich buns is $4. And gas is about $3.85 locally. Two of my boys and one GF are about checked out of the motel and headed this way, for an hour or so, then back to eastern Kansas again & the daily grind. 2 or 3 of them at a time is just right and I have enjoyed the heck out of having them around for several days. We even hit the rifle range & I now have some empty brass to refill. I even tried to act like a 40 year old & hup it out to the 300 yard berm to see if I could find any 50 cal holes in the target. Sadly, no. 100 Gr of Blackhorn-209 didn't get a 300 Gr lead hpbt anywhere near that far. My chrono said they were running in the 1850-1925 FPS range. Some fresh ditches in the dirt 50 feet down the grade is all. Lived to regret it too, legs cramped & it took me 20 minutes to get back to the firing line shelter. A 5 minute sitdown was very welcome. It turns out that while I do feel good, better than in years, I'm not THAT good yet. I gotta learn to act my age I guess, and get me a moped for that sort of thing. Along with a bike carrier that plugs into the Reese socket on my GMC king cab. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
