Got to ask, why is it legal to sell matches to squirrels? I mean, assault rifles yes, of course, Second Amendment rights and all that. But matches? What are you people thinking over there?
B > On 7 Jul 2016, at 20:56, Bob Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote: > > John, > I knew you were in trouble when you said the neighborhood's electricity was > out > because a squirrel set the pole on fire. Time to get the matches away > from the squirrels! > Regards, Bob S. > >> On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 2:44 PM, John <[email protected]> wrote: >> I mentioned here before that the week started with the power being out >> because the squirrel set a telephone pole that carries the electricity >> for my neighborhood ON FIRE! >> >> I think that may be the high point of good times for the week. >> >> Tuesday I spent the entire day - 9am to 5pm - trying to set up a user >> account with Citibank so that I can pay the bill for the new Costco >> Citibank Visa card online. When I did it for American Express, I think >> it took me about 5 minutes. I don't think I ever had any problem with >> American Express that took more than 5 minutes to resolve on the phone >> (including hold time). The last thing I got from Citibank's level 2 >> support was that they don't know what's wrong, but there 17 other people >> in the U.S. are having the same problem. >> >> They suggested maybe I should take my laptop to McDonalds & use their >> public WiFi, or maybe use one of the computers down at the public >> library to create the account. >> >> Yesterday, was a war on fleas day, which I seem to be losing. Took the >> cat to the vet to be bathed & boarded over night while I fumigated the >> house with those "foggers in a can". Finally got back in at 10:00pm last >> night & still had to vacuum, change all the bedding and do dishes before >> I could get to bed. >> >> Pinched a sciatic nerve somehow & could barely move by the time I gave >> up last night. Used a heat pad overnight, and I can hobble around >> reasonably well today. >> >> Today, after I finished up housecleaning the aftermath of yesterday's >> fumigation, I went & got the cat from the vet. She's got some residual >> itching I guess, because even though she's all clean and sleek and not >> shedding a bit, she's still scratching some. Probably will have to go >> back to the vet to get medication for the itching until the scratched >> spots heal up. >> >> When I finally got around to turning on my computer this afternoon (shut >> them down while fogging the house) one of my NAS boxes won't connect. >> Looks like one of the drives may be failing (if it hasn't already failed >> outright), but I think the fault may be the NAS box itself this time. >> >> The NAS is set up as a RAID-1 mirror, so I should be able to recover the >> data from the good drive. >> >> I downloaded software to allow EXT2, EXT3 or EXT4 drives to mount on >> Windows 7 and a program that's supposed to allow me to read the data >> from the EXT formatted drive. The mount software sees the drive and >> gives it a drive letter. Windows says it's not a recognized drive and >> wants to format it. The Linux Reader software sees the drive, but so far >> it won't let me read the data. >> >> I don't think there's anything on the "drive" that's not backed up >> somewhere else, but I won't know for sure until I manage to read the >> data & hopefully copy it over to a new backup. >> >> They say trouble comes in threes, but I'm already up to 4 for the week >> so I don't know what's going on. >> >> >> >> -- >> Science - Questions we may never find answers for. >> Religion - Answers we must never question. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
