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Archive through January 07, 2004

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Sillycalimomma

Tuesday, January 06, 2004 - 9:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow that is Celine! I just saw the footage on tv-her getting her star! I can't believe it! It certainly didn't look like her!Sheesh....

Jeep

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 6:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am so cold, all I can say this morning is....Burrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Essence

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Burrrrrrrrrr right back atcha Jeep. That wind went through me this morning like I was a thin piece of cloth. You would never have known I had layers of clothing on.

Jeep

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This is over a 60 degree drop for us from this weekend. Bitter.

And Essence, I loved your old age points you posted yesterday. I can relate to all of them! LOL

Janfts

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Essense-very cute, and i can relate to it also.
Wasn't it Bette Davis who said, "growing old isn't for sissies" ?

Ladytex

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mornin'... it's a few degrees warmer outside today than yesterday, not many degrees but a few. The good thing is that I will only be out there long enough for me to get where I'm going.

Halfunit

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 7:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Local Forecast for Dover, OH
14°F
Feels Like 0°F

On another note, how did people at work kill time before computers and internet access?


Zules

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 8:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
As I dodge Twinkie's boot, I report that it is a chilly 71 here today.

**tee hee**

Resortgirl

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 8:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's -8 here in sunny Minnesota, feels like -25! I think that we are supposed to have a heat wave this weekend with highs in the teens!! yippee!!

Egbok

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 8:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Halfie, since I'm a geezer type of person now, I can answer that question of yesteryear...

They picked up a plain piece of typing bond paper and held it in their left hand. They insert such paper into the typewriter roller carriage and at the same time, with their right hand, they turn the roller so the piece of typing paper will insert smoothly.

As they continue turning the roller and watching with fascination as the paper feeds down and then comes up over the roller, they then lift the paper holder bar thingy and smooth the top of the paper under the bar thingy which holds the paper in place.

Then they push the typewriter carriage to the far left using their left hand, then place their hands on the keyboard (pretty much like you now do with posting with your computer keyboard).

Then they type this line:
I am bored today.

Then they will use their right hand to pull the carriage arm toward them so that the paper will move up to the next blank line, especially if your using single space. Now if you use double space, you will have a blank line between your sentence. They release the carriage arm and retype the sentence so it appears this way:

I am bored today.
I am bored today.
(that's single spaced...)


I am bored today.

I am bored today.
(that's double spaced...)


I am bored today.
I am bored today.
I am bored today.
I am bored today.

Now mind you, they didn't have the cut & paste ability way back then, so they actually had to sit at their desks and retype this sentence over and over and over again.

So that's how people at work killed time before computers and internet access.

Hope your day goes by fast!
xoxo, Eggie


Jeep

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 8:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh Eggie! You forgot about the 3 carbon copies under the original page. And when you made a mistake, you had to correct it 4 times with a hand held ink eraser.

I never had time to kill when I had to work with all that crap! LOL

Mak1

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's a sunny 20 degrees in Maine, with the wind picking up. We'll have dangerous wind chills tonight.

Eggie, your post made me laugh, remembering my early secretarial days. We learned on manual typewriters in high school, then moved up to the exciting electrics. You could return the carriage with a keystroke, yay! Wouldn't it be torturous to go back to that.

Halfunit

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Eggeezer!

You know, as I sit at my desk at work, I look off to my left and see these two pieces of machinery that you describe, sitting, unplugged and lonely.....

...yes, we occasionally have to use those prehistoric machines for tax forms....<sigh>

HB2YE !!!


Twinkie

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Somebody please ship me back to Orlando. I'm freezing up here. The sun is shining but its 15 degrees and the wind is blowing at about 35 MPH. Snow is blowing everywhere and my windows are creaking. I want to go home. I don't think this will ever be home. Especially now.

Resortgirl

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Twinkie, somehow you eventually get used to it. I've lived in Minnesota all but 3 years of my life... the other three were in Texas. Soon you'll be putting on shorts and sandals the first 50 degree day in spring!! Hang in there!!!

Resortgirl

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 9:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I should add, the first winter we lived "UP NORTH" there were 3 days of -56 degree weather without the windchill factor. I learned that at -52 propane freezes. We had no heat, and had to boil water on the stove, pour it over the tank to unfreeze the propane so the furnace could run for 10 minutes and then keep repeating the process.... ARG!! I was ready to move that year, believe me!!

Hippyt

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 10:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
<throwing some blankets over poor Twinks>

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:31 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hey Eggie, look at this:

Quote:

You know, as I sit at my desk at work, I look off to my left and see these two pieces of machinery that you describe, sitting, unplugged and lonely.....




Unplugged. Hahahahahaha!!! Like typewriters normally have plugs. Hahahaha!!!

Essence

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 11:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
SIGH... My supervisor just called another one his nap fests, er... meetings. I hate when he does this right after lunch.

Marysafan

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 12:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was just wondering if anyone happened to catch the story that I saw on Good Morning America yesterday....where the little boy crawled up into one of those vending machines where you try to get a stuff animal using a grasping device.

He sure looked odd sitting inside that glass box. Dad was sure suprised...mom (who wasn't there was mortified when she found out). It was at the Piggly Wiggly Store in Cheboygen, WI and no one at the store had a key so they had to call the fire department who ended up calling a locksmith.

Amazing how he could fit through the "slot" ...but he did! Thank goodness he had enough oxygen! Dad was the phone at the time...just goes to show, you can't take your eyes of them for a minute!

Lkunkel

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mary: Great story. I too want to know how a 7YO fit through an 8x11" opening.

In fairness, a 7YO should know better; at that age I was expected to stand/sit and wait if my parents were occupied. Hence the reason I learned to carry a book with me.

Hippyt

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:06 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OMG,that's funny and scary at the same time! I could just see one of my kids doing that.

Halfunit

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
...it would probably take me $48.75 in quarters just to get him out...

Egbok

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
....yeah Half, just make sure the machine is plugged in so the grabbing device will work...

(thanks for the HB2me!!)


Sillycalimomma

Wednesday, January 07, 2004 - 1:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Daughter started school on Monday again. I can't wait to get back into school myself. I have a full load coming up this semester-18 units, but hopefully if all goes well I will at least have my AA degree finally afterward! I have already done all of the housework that needed to be done....I am so darn bored!I need to go to the Library threads and pick a new book out to read!