Re: I don't know...

Igenlode Wordsmith wrote:

> On 30 Jan 2006 richard e white wrote:
>
> > Igenlode Wordsmith wrote:
> >
>
> [snip]
> > > I
> > > suspect my daily lifestyle is probably forty or fifty years behind that
> > > of most people here -- (double glazing?
> >
> > windows right?  I know of them but don't have them.
> >
> I thought everybody had air-conditioning in America... or is that just
> the desert parts? ;-)

I live in the hot south west area, an I do have an aircondishner but no dubble
glassing.  The house I live in is a rather odd one that was put here around
1968.  It has cement walls rather then stucko, but done in the same way as
stucko.  every one thinks it is stucko till they knock on it and they find out it
is about an inch and a half of concreat over tarpaper and wood.  the windo frams
are cemented in and can't be removed with out a masonrey saw and the blades of
thoes are messed up by the chicken  wier that is in the cemeant.  So all the
quotes are about 1300 dollors each no matter the size of the windo.  and I know
there should be a diffrence between a one by two window and a 8 by 4 foot
window.  But they add them all up the same.  dubble glassing was not done here
when they where put in.  How ever now all homes that are sold or built have to
have them.  the thing is that it would cost more then the house was bought for to
install them.  I mean it is 20,000 to 27,000 from every one we had in to look at
it.  Yes I know that sounds odd when I say that is more then the house was bought
for but the curent owner bought it when I was 4 and a half so the cost was much
lower.

>
>
> >
> > > dish-washers?
> >
> > How do you not have hands:)
>
> Oh, I don't do the washing-up :-)  Well, not very often!
>
> But really, it's not a problem provided you don't let stuff dry hard on
> the plates. (I read an account of a standard dish-washer test once that
> said they smeared a thin layer of food over the crockery and then baked
> it in a hot oven for ten minutes, to simulate domestic usage; no-one who
> had to wash dishes by hand would do anything so stupid! You soak them
> as soon as they're finished with, and then the stuff just falls off
> when you come to do the washing-up at the end of the day... as a
> million mothers would once have known.)

I know what you mean that is what I do.  As I don't have a devise to do that
either and don't really want one.  I use the same spoon, fork, plate and bowl for
every meal.  Tho the reason for this is I clean them and put them away so I will
know where they are when I want them.  It took me three years to get it through
the heads of the people that I live with that if you move my stuff I will wake
you up in the middle of the night so you can tell me you put it down on the wrong
shelf.

> Funny thing is they still thought I was doing them a faver.  well they did
> after they got tired of me breaking china.  (I was really hard on glass and
> china for about five years after going blind)  You know I could have sworn the
> table was right there.  What do you mean you moved it last week?")

> > > mobile telephones?
> >
> > I have one of thoes around here some where but I think the cat ran off with
> > it and I have not seen it lately.  Do you think she knows how to use it?
> > will I be paying for romantic cat calls?
> >
> That probably depends on whether the buttons stick down or not!

I found it.  it is a flip open kind and she didn't open it.  So no calls.  It
seams she only batted it under the sofa.  I found it when it went off.

>
> (I had a pet rat that ran off with the mouse from the computer once...
> she bit through the cable and took it away! Rodent romance ;-)

He he.  Mine did the same but mine is wireless.  One of these days I may have to
find it.  Tho I bet I don't care as much as you do.  as I never use it.  the only
reason I have one is so my brother does not go nuts when he up loads new
softwere.

>
> [snip]
>
> > > duvets?...
> >
> > And what is this one?
>
> What used to be called "Continental quilts"; a sort of all-in-one form
> of bedding that floats around on top of the sleeper, instead of tucking
> in under the edges of the mattress. The idea, apparently, is that you
> regulate your temperature by leaving arms or legs sticking out from
> under the quilt as necessary, rather than by adding or removing
> blankets and sleeping with your entire body under the covers.

Is that what they are calling them these days?  I know of quilts.  Just not the
other name.
Thanks I will have to remember they are the same thing.

>
>
> They give me nightmares.
>
> No, literally. I don't mean that I hate the thought of them, I mean
> that I get nightmares when I have to sleep under one. I stuck it out
> for three days in a row the first time it happened, before I worked out
> the common factor; then I had to go and beg for my blankets back. And it
> happens again every single time I stay in a place that uses duvets on
> its beds.
>
> Sleeping-bags are fine -- I can go camping, or sleep snugly in a boat.
> But if I have to lie on an unsecured surface with a duvet balanced on
> top of me, I wake up in the night sweating in panic.
>
> Unfortunately, they're getting so fashionable now that it's a real
> problem...

Must be some memory linked with them.  I like a bed built into the wall kind of
like a captains bed.  Shelves above and drawers under it.  Not sure why.  But I
know it has to do with it not moveing around like most moddern beds do.  and when
I sleep else were and I get up I sometimes wounder off the wrong way.  And after
the first time you bounce off a wall the disoreantation is compleat.  and you
just have to feel around till you can find something you can remember where it
is.  sighted people normaly have at least some idea do to clock lights and the
like.  And that some times brings night mares of walking off a ledge even when I
know none are around.

>
>
> [snip]
>
> > > I am English. Very much so, on occasion :-)
> >
> > Good for you.  I hear you have a working transit system there.  I wish we
> > had one here.
>
> A rather expensive one, alas, and getting more so every year. The
> cynical might say that it is an attempt to price the excess passengers
> off the trains rather than invest in expansion to accommodate the
> increase :-(
>

They are sort of doing that here.  they kick the price up till it is often
cheaper to just use your own car then they cut down on the routes because they
are not being used.

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