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      07-25-2022, 10:11 PM   #5215
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I stopped doing that 5 or 6 years ago. Since then, I hired window cleaners (here this very moment - 2 story home) and a grounds keeper.

So you ask, why. A good friend fell off his ladder while washing his travel trailer 6 years ago. A few weeks after the surgeons put his broken bones back together, he had a stroke. The blood clot originated from one of the surgery sites. Can't talk, can't walk.

I hired help the next day. I don't climb ladders anymore.
I worked with a guy who fell off a ladder and spent the rest of his days in a wheelchair. That's what scares me about ladders.
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... you've been married for 74 years! Esteban
Wow, I'm not even that old yet.

You must have a little dyslexia.
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Wow, I'm not even that old yet.

You must have a little dyslexia.
LOL. I'll blame it on the covid. I'm pretty sick right now.
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Wow, I'm not even that old yet.

You must have a little dyslexia.
LOL. I'll blame it on the covid. I'm pretty sick right now.
Sorry to hear. Get better soon.
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Sorry to hear. Get better soon.
Thanx main, I'm workin' on it.
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I was watching War Games today while riding on the trainer. Matthew Broderick was using those huge floppies. They took *a lot* of liberties with the truth in that movie. Fun to watch.
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Ticker tape with holes in it.
When I first started working, there was a telex or teletype machine. You'd type your message and it would punch holes in a tape and then you connected and fed the tape through the machine.
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Ticker tape with holes in it.
When I first started working, there was a telex or teletype machine. You'd type your message and it would punch holes in a tape and then you connected and fed the tape through the machine.
I Just told my assistant to "send a telex, this is important" yesterday, just to see the look on her 24 year old face

And the fax machines where you had to put the phone into the "special slot" at both ends after speaking.

Cutting edge 1980's technology!
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I Just told my assistant to "send a telex, this is important" yesterday, just to see the look on her 24 year old face

And the fax machines where you had to put the phone into the "special slot" at both ends after speaking.

Cutting edge 1980's technology!
You remember the fax machine with the canister that you had to clip the paper into and it went round and round? 6 minutes a page. Damn, it stunk
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You remember the fax machine with the canister that you had to clip the paper into and it went round and round? 6 minutes a page. Damn, it stunk
..and you remember what ditto paper smells like from middle school class assignments.
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..and you remember what ditto paper smells like from middle school class assignments.
Absolutely! Loved that smell! Sometimes the sheets were still wet.
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..and you remember what ditto paper smells like from middle school class assignments.
...and there was no such thing as a surprise test, because everyone could smell the fresh dittos as soon as they walked into the classroom.

I sometimes wonder if the reason why we all didn't need Adderall was because we all sniffed dittos in school every day?????
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When I first started working, there was a telex or teletype machine. You'd type your message and it would punch holes in a tape and then you connected and fed the tape through the machine.
I spent a lot of my time in the Navy in the 1970s and early 1980s typing on a Model 28 teletype and working with those 5-level paper tapes. The machine itself had about a zillion parts to it -- a real mechanical wonder/nightmare. But when a good teletype maintenance tech had fine-tuned it, oh my I could type like lightning!
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