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Cari (MS MVP) wrote:
> "Miss Perspicacia Tick" <misstick@lancre.dw> wrote in message
> news:40c11d29$1_3@127.0.0.1...
>>
>> I can't keep up! I'm not in a very good mood at the moment as my
>> father slammed the lid down on my £400 scanner and cracked the glass
>> under the lid (it's a Perfection 4870 and it dual scans (ICE)). He
>> denies doing it. Fortunately, it's still under warranty, but I'm not
>> sure I'm covered for acts of idiot parent!
>>
>> Well if you will live practically in the desert! It was 25°C (77°F)
>> here today and that's plenty warm enough for me! At 41°C I'd melt! I
>> don't envy your electric bill! You should move back home, girl! Tell
>> him he can damned well learn to like it over here! I couldn't afford
>> to live over there. The NHS might have its flaws (and great chasms
>> they might be) but I couldn't afford Medicare! My great-aunt could,
>> but she thought she could play the system by getting friends (and
>> family!) to lie for her! She got her comeuppance though, when her
>> usually very mild-mannered SIL (my late grandfather's youngest
>> sister) told her where to go. Basically she was giving doctors
>> relatives home addresses as her own and that she was going to the
>> States "on holiday". Well, she was caught and ordered to pay back
>> everything she stole! I'm laughing as I type this because she didn't
>> think that (at 75) she'd need insurance! I hate her - I really can't
>> stand the woman. I'd divorce myself from that side of the family
>> completely if I didn't have three smashing second cousins.
>>
>> Sorry - that was a rant. Please ignore.
>>
> We all need to rant every now and then, it does us good. Didn't the
> scanner fall off the desk accidentally??? I got the LiDE80 because
> it's USB2.0, fast and does negatives and positives and I make very
> nice pictures from 35mm movie film trailers.
>
> Nothing really wrong with triple digits. Nice natural solar heat to
> keep my pool warm. I could never get a pool warm enough in the UK
> (hell, who in the UK has a pool in their back garden!) and it is nice
> to go swimming after fixing a few printers!
>
> 77F. That's cold. 11.51pm and it's just about 90F.
LOL!! That's a good point. Mind you, if they came here and saw where it was
situated they wouldn't believe it. It's a mighty solid beast.
Who has a pool in their back garden?! Round here - practically everyone
(not, us though, or our two immediate neighbours, the house four down does
though). There's a road in the centre of town where every house costs
upwards of £1.5million - and they *ALL* have pools. Most of those also have
their own gyms, saunas, Turkish baths, jacuzzis, steam rooms, etc. They're
practially health clubs! And the pools all have retractable roofs and
optional heating systems. Several of them also have grass tennis courts and
one has a football pitch (only 5 a side, but even so!)
It's even colder here today - 75°. This is T-shirt weather for us! Dad got
the shorts out when it wasn't even 68°!
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