Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 04-23-19 05:54 <=-

and shouted down to Bonnie, who is pretty deaf, so I
kept shouting, and the next door neighbor Jim heard and
came in (he has the keys) and shut the valve while I kept
pressure on the broken joint.

Good thing he could come to the rescue....

Afterward, I had him give a tour of the basement
to show where the shutoffs were. Bonnie of course
had no clue.

Will she retain the knowledge, do you think....?

All was well, sort of, except that it
turned out that the leak had been going on for a bit
before being discovered, so the towels in the cupboard
were soaked, and the ones that weren't got that way for
mopping up the mess, plus the paper goods, plus the soap
supply, plus some but thankfully not all of my medicine.
The water had also migrated to the laundry room on the
second floor, causing minor damage and much extra wetness.

Water does that.... Most of the damage to our house when we had the
attic fire was done by the water used to put it out....

If I'd abandoned my station and gone to the
basement to find the shutoff valve, the damage
might have ended up being considerable.

Indeed...

but a bit of the T area was included by accident, and some
bright person noticed the anomaly, so there was another MRI
at 5:45 in the morning ... which was inconclusive anyway,
so more tests yet are indicated after her return from Turkey.

Hopefully it will all be fine...

We're of that opinion.

Have the new tests happened yet...?

Lilli - well, she claims that she's been given a relatively
clean bill of health. Nonetheless, walking a quarter mile to
the train station we had to stop twice for legs not working..

Not good. Has she considered a walker...? or is that too much hassle
for your trips...?

Omnis vanitas. But this last jaunt, 3 miles, she
was good on the outbound half, but we got only a
quarter mile going back. She had to take 3 rests,
and we ended up hailing a taxi, with my desperation
showing. The first two ignored us, and this guy
made a U-turn in the middle of the street and came to
our rescue (we were pointed in the right direction).
He promptly took another U-turn putting us in the
wrong direction, so we both screamed at him, and he
made yet another U-turn. Thank goodness - he could
have continued his expensive route, or worse. As it
was, he charged an exorbitant fare, and I gave him
ten extra pesos for not kidnapping us.

This was in Mexico, yes...?

My keyboard, which often is so unresponsive that some typed
letters don't show up. It's as though a particularly outdated keystroke logger were working, which is a distinct possibility.

How annoying...

I talked to a friend who was being monitored by the FBI;
she had the same symptoms. She was being monitored because
unknown to her one of her correspondents was on the ten
most wanted list.

Hmmm.... does make on wonder who's listening in, then....

vs. the new version
whoops. Caramelly sweet aroma. Not as hard melt,
Very sweet, kind of cloying on the palate.
Cardboardy finish. A disappointment - I'm as happy
buying Made in USA products as anybody, but this just
didn't add up. Poop on you, Market Basket and on you
too, anonymous chocolate manufacturer.

That's close to criminal.... but they get away with it...

The pity is that the company has a good reputation.

Perhaps that won't last, with that sort of shenanigans...

ttyl neb

... "50...the old age of youth, the youth of old age." William Powell

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