USMB Coffee Shop IV

[peach174]

Neck, mainly.

??? Something you should get checked for? Or just what we around here call a 'crick in the neck' which is miserable until it passes. Anyhow feel better.

Old Air Force injury from long ago. 4 of my 7 cervical vertebra are one piece. 2 from birth, 2 from a discectomy in 1990. It's the cause of a lot of discomfort and pain, especially laying down... unfortunately.

My cousin has the same problem with his neck vertebra and has had about 3 operations.
He ordered these pillows in the Queen/ King size and he says they work really well.
PF Pillow Queen Size
It might be worth a try at least.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Deutschland 1: USA 0


!!!!!


Good game! The "Amis" can really rush and they can run like wild, but their kicking was too wild and off the mark. The "Deutscher" were simply more disciplined. Game went into 4 minutes overtime.

But since Portugal won over Ghana, the USA advances to the next round.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Hardly slept at all last night. Tossed and turned in pain and doubt I got 3 hours sleep. I better hit the recliner and see if I can't catch another couple winks, or I'm going to be in one foul mood all day.

your back again?

Neck, mainly.

Hope you get to feeling better, 007.

 

[Big Black Dog]

Two words... Good morning. Busy day. Talk with you all later.

BBD, are you all set for your big camping trip? Where are you headed, got enough coffee and PB&J?

Yes!!! Well, almost. Have to buy one more storage container for storing things in the undercarriage storage area of the RV, flush and fill the water tank, stock it up with some food, and then hit the road. Will be leaving very early in the morning of July 5th - the day before my birthday. Taking Mrs. BBD to Shipshewana, IN. We will see a play at a dinner theater called "Half-Stitched" and there are lots of quilting stores for Mrs. BBD to browse in. I shall escort her around the town during the mornings and early afternoon and afterwards I shall retire to a chair in the shade of the RV awning to read several books I have been wanting to read for a while but haven't gotten around to. I plan to relax and Mrs. BBD plans to shop, work on her sewing and stuff. It's really just the warm-up trip in prep for our big trip to the New England area in September.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Two words... Good morning. Busy day. Talk with you all later.

BBD, are you all set for your big camping trip? Where are you headed, got enough coffee and PB&J?

Yes!!! Well, almost. Have to buy one more storage container for storing things in the undercarriage storage area of the RV, flush and fill the water tank, stock it up with some food, and then hit the road. Will be leaving very early in the morning of July 5th - the day before my birthday. Taking Mrs. BBD to Shipshewana, IN. We will see a play at a dinner theater called "Half-Stitched" and there are lots of quilting stores for Mrs. BBD to browse in. I shall escort her around the town during the mornings and early afternoon and afterwards I shall retire to a chair in the shade of the RV awning to read several books I have been wanting to read for a while but haven't gotten around to. I plan to relax and Mrs. BBD plans to shop, work on her sewing and stuff. It's really just the warm-up trip in prep for our big trip to the New England area in September.

If you hit Vermont, the rock quarries in Barre are unbelievable and the Salmon fishing on Winnepesaukee Lake in NH is really ideal. You can kick back, fish and Mrs. BDD can go shopping!

 

[Spoonman]

And on the pet peeve front, I had to take down my popup blockers because they were interfering with on line games I play, and I have resisted installing an ad blocker for the same reason. But I HATE these dang pop up ads--sometimes I'm getting two at a time and they're both talking to me and playing different music and it's awful. I can take them off in a hurry but I want advertisers to know that these are not at all effective with me and I will resist any product advertised in that intrusive and annoying way. Harumph!!

i know, you fix one thing, you screw up another

 

[Starlight]

Good afternoon, everyone. I have some catching up to do. Had to get a new computer because I was using Windows XP, and my computer was older.

Got a laptop, and it was hard to get used to it, because there was no mouse. A friend let me know I could buy a mouse for it...so I'm doing better, but seems harder to type with it, and takes me longer. I will probably still be here tomorrow finishing this

 

[Jughead]

And on the pet peeve front, I had to take down my popup blockers because they were interfering with on line games I play, and I have resisted installing an ad blocker for the same reason. But I HATE these dang pop up ads--sometimes I'm getting two at a time and they're both talking to me and playing different music and it's awful. I can take them off in a hurry but I want advertisers to know that these are not at all effective with me and I will resist any product advertised in that intrusive and annoying way. Harumph!!

I use adfender. It has an enable/disable option. In fact the only time I enable it is when I'm on USMB.

 

[Foxfyre]

In case you all were wondering, on this day in history:

The history of bar codes and store scanners to read them has a long and checkered history of trial and error, failures, success quickly followed by setbacks, etc. But folks kept working on it, trying to get it right, trying to make it affordable, and testing it.

On June 26, 1974, all the tests were done, all the proposals were complete, all the standards were set, and at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, a single pack of chewing gum became the first retail product sold with the help of a scanner.

As the story goes, the very first product scanned was a 10-pack of Wrigleys Juicy Fruit chewing gum costing $.67 and bearing the Uniform Product Code (UPC.) It was scanned by Marsh Supermarket cashier, Sharon Buchanan, for customer Clyde Dawson. (The bar-coded package of gum, never chewed, is on display at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.)

 

[Foxfyre]

And while I'm in a teaching mood--don't you just hate that??--here's a refresher course on that ducttape and WD-40 discussion a few days ago:

 

[Sarah G]

Two words... Good morning. Busy day. Talk with you all later.

BBD, are you all set for your big camping trip? Where are you headed, got enough coffee and PB&J?

Yes!!! Well, almost. Have to buy one more storage container for storing things in the undercarriage storage area of the RV, flush and fill the water tank, stock it up with some food, and then hit the road. Will be leaving very early in the morning of July 5th - the day before my birthday. Taking Mrs. BBD to Shipshewana, IN. We will see a play at a dinner theater called "Half-Stitched" and there are lots of quilting stores for Mrs. BBD to browse in. I shall escort her around the town during the mornings and early afternoon and afterwards I shall retire to a chair in the shade of the RV awning to read several books I have been wanting to read for a while but haven't gotten around to. I plan to relax and Mrs. BBD plans to shop, work on her sewing and stuff. It's really just the warm-up trip in prep for our big trip to the New England area in September.

Wonderful! I'm so glad you have an awning. I hope you're taking the doggies.

 

[Derideo_Te]

Drat! Work has been keeping me so busy that my play time on USMB is limited to just the occasional visits and not really enough time to chat! Oh well, they are paying me so I guess I shouldn't complain!

Supper time is fast approaching if that growling I am hearing is not BBD!

 

[Againsheila]

So, I got my new cast. Who bet on forest green? Apparently I'm healing well. Two weeks now until my next appointment.

 

[peach174]

So, I got my new cast. Who bet on forest green? Apparently I'm healing well. Two weeks now until my next appointment.

Not me I said purple.

Do you get to choose the color or do they?

I'm happy to hear you are healing well.

Do you get to walk at all on this new one?

 

[Ava]

In case you all were wondering, on this day in history:

The history of bar codes and store scanners to read them has a long and checkered history of trial and error, failures, success quickly followed by setbacks, etc. But folks kept working on it, trying to get it right, trying to make it affordable, and testing it.

On June 26, 1974, all the tests were done, all the proposals were complete, all the standards were set, and at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, a single pack of chewing gum became the first retail product sold with the help of a scanner.

As the story goes, the very first product scanned was a 10-pack of Wrigleys Juicy Fruit chewing gum costing $.67 and bearing the Uniform Product Code (UPC.) It was scanned by Marsh Supermarket cashier, Sharon Buchanan, for customer Clyde Dawson. (The bar-coded package of gum, never chewed, is on display at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.)

OOHH!!! Foxy...what a grand idea. To have a daily history lesson, maybe. I hope you or someone can make it happen. How interesting.

 

[Sherry]

In case you all were wondering, on this day in history:

The history of bar codes and store scanners to read them has a long and checkered history of trial and error, failures, success quickly followed by setbacks, etc. But folks kept working on it, trying to get it right, trying to make it affordable, and testing it.

On June 26, 1974, all the tests were done, all the proposals were complete, all the standards were set, and at a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, a single pack of chewing gum became the first retail product sold with the help of a scanner.

As the story goes, the very first product scanned was a 10-pack of Wrigleys Juicy Fruit chewing gum costing $.67 and bearing the Uniform Product Code (UPC.) It was scanned by Marsh Supermarket cashier, Sharon Buchanan, for customer Clyde Dawson. (The bar-coded package of gum, never chewed, is on display at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.)

OOHH!!! Foxy...what a grand idea. To have a daily history lesson, maybe. I hope you or someone can make it happen. How interesting.

Speaking of history, this Saturday marks the 100th anniversary to the start of WWI. WSJ online has an interesting link...

World War I Centenary: 100 Legacies of the Great War

 

[Mr. H.]

This is amazing. Out of the blue yesterday I got an email from a distant cousin whom I'd never met.
She was born and raised in Austria, my grandfather's birth country (Graz). In 1952 my dad acted as sponsor and paid the money so she and her family could emigrate to the U.S. I remember being told this story when I was very young, but never imagined I would ever connect with them.

We owe everything to the H family and would not be here if it were not for your family.

Wow.

 

[Mr. H.]

Evidently, she now lives in Connecticut.

 

[SFC Ollie]

 

[Big Black Dog]

BBD, are you all set for your big camping trip? Where are you headed, got enough coffee and PB&J?

Yes!!! Well, almost. Have to buy one more storage container for storing things in the undercarriage storage area of the RV, flush and fill the water tank, stock it up with some food, and then hit the road. Will be leaving very early in the morning of July 5th - the day before my birthday. Taking Mrs. BBD to Shipshewana, IN. We will see a play at a dinner theater called "Half-Stitched" and there are lots of quilting stores for Mrs. BBD to browse in. I shall escort her around the town during the mornings and early afternoon and afterwards I shall retire to a chair in the shade of the RV awning to read several books I have been wanting to read for a while but haven't gotten around to. I plan to relax and Mrs. BBD plans to shop, work on her sewing and stuff. It's really just the warm-up trip in prep for our big trip to the New England area in September.

Wonderful! I'm so glad you have an awning. I hope you're taking the doggies.

No doggies on this trip. Doggies will be living up in a high class boarding establishment. Besides, I don't want them witness as to the things I might do in the Amish country of Indiana.