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Skriven 2008-03-14 15:22:52 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 3769 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: dishwashers                                              [1]
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Hi Janis,


>> colds and flus like the schools do :)  so of course he got the flu,
>> and brought it home to his brothers and mom and dad - and then they

 JK> > Nothing like sharing the germs.  My older brother shared the chicken
 JK> pox

 JK> Oh tell me about it.. this entire month has been one big infection for
 JK> me it seems sometimes... incredible problems, one after the other.. :(
 JK>  First the "little flu" er cold er whatever the heck it was that went
 JK> straight to my chest the first day, then the sinus infection that
 JK> followed that one.. THEN an abcessed tooth..  hehe.. well finally on
 JK> the repair?  Sure hope so. Hope things are going ok over there as
 JK> you're swinging back into the flow of things.. I know that's not
 JK> always easy either.

Overall, we're doing better than you are.  I have my good days and not
so good ones, still not up to full steam yet. Medical oncologist
basically said there's nothing he can do that my other doctors aren't
already doing so I don't need to keep seeing him.  Spent almost 3 hours
on Wed. afternoon waiting around, just to hear that.  Well, they did do
a blood check too. (G)

 JK> and > the 2 neighbor girls I was baby sitting.  We'd talked about home
 JK> > schooling our girls but the support wasn't there in the early 80s

 JK> Yes, there was none whatsoevever in the years preceeding...

 JK> > there is now. So, they went to public school and...............we
 JK> > supplimented with library visits, computers, local newspapers,
 JK> magazine > subscriptions, etc.

 JK> Yeah, we did the same kind of thing :)  Every kids' magazine that
 JK> looked interesting at all :)  The more scientific, the better :) I was

And the kids did better for the home supplimentation. We got our first
computer (C-64) in spring of 1984, shortly before Deborah turned 4. Used
that until fall of 1994 when Steve caught a government surplus sale & we
upgraded to a 286.


 JK> teaching a lot of computing at the time though then.. especially to
 JK> kids.. I had programs I'd written for each age level so it worked out
 JK> well.  For instance a 3 yr. old toddler would come in, this really
 JK> happened :), and his mom would drop him off, we'd sit at the
 JK> computer.. and I'd run this silly program I'd written for the
 JK> commodore 64 :)  It plastered the letters of the alphabet on the
 JK> screen, and then this clown would come out and point to just one of
 JK> the letters.. if the kid found the key on the keyboard and pressed it
 JK> it made a happy sound (life was simple then too (g)) :)

Steve typed in lots of programs from magazines for his C-64. One of
Deborah's favorites was called Tree Tutor--taught basic math with apples
and apple trees.

 JK> > I don't drink coffee at all; Steve does much less than what he used
 JK> to. > At home it's always tea.

 JK> Oh, no.. no caffeine.. :)  For me, it's a way of life :)  I think I
 JK> started drinking coffee when I was 14 with my first job in the
 JK> hospital as a Medical Laboratory assistant.  There have been some
 JK> years I went without it totally.. but not since I got MS.

We have a bit of caffineine but not too much. Not like we're downing
8-10 mugs of coffee or Cokes a day tho.

 JK> appreciate > good southern cooking; I made Brunswick stew for supper
 JK> last night. It's > from a Paula Deen cook book but uses all chicken vs
 JK> a chicken/pork mix. > It's a "do again" so the recipe will be posted
 JK> here in the next few
 JK> > days.

 JK> I'll have to check for it :) I'm a bit behind  :(

I've not posted it yet; had life (and computer problems) get in the way
of living.

>> cannot block. On each basket on my current dishwasher there is a spot
>> where water passes that you can't block with cups, or bowls, etc.. the
>> new dishwasher avoids that.. You sound like you run your dishwasher

 JK> > Good; it's something we may want to look into if we ever get our own
 JK> > place. Right now we're not allowed to do things like that. (G)

 JK> Still not installed.. this flu hit the two of us so bad you can't
 JK> believe it.. between that and running to the doc/phamacy for drugs and
 JK> then.. the hardware shop for the parts.. it's still right where the
 JK> fellows delivered it, nice and safe :)

I understand.  Work on getting well first.


 JK> > The machine is a Juki, industrial type.  That came in yesterday; the
 JK> > rest will probably come on Monday. It's a framework that gets set on
 JK> a > table (like a banquet table) with the machine in it. It's a step
 JK> between > a home sewing machine and a long arm quilting machine.

 JK> Whew.. almost sounds scarey :) :) :)


It's actually quite straight forward. The frame work came today so we
were watching the How To DVD on Steve's lunch break. Looks like it'll
break down fairly easily too for when I'm not using it.  The only room
big enough for it is right next to the kitchen so I can keep an eye on
supper while quilting. (G)


>> something good here! :)  I think that was when I'd just gotten the
>> kitchenaid and of course I had to experiment a lot :) :) Matter of
>> fact, I remember making a twisted yeast bread, with raisin, nut
>> filling for my mom.. she brought it to work to share with her
>> co-workers and she told me that she had orders for 22 more of them,
>> because they wanted to buy one no matter what... I laughed so hard!


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