[Nfbmt] {Spam?} Re: I'm Back

[d m gina]

Now that cracked me up.
Frustrating.
Glad we will not get the snow that Colorado is getting.

Original message:
> Rik et al,
>         Several years ago in the winter, streets and sidewalk all covered
> with snow, I rode the bus downtown to a business we were doing Payroll books
> for.  When I left the business, I needed to make my way to the Bus transfer
> point, (the days before the center was purchased), so I brought along a
> magnetic compass.  I held it up against my belly, opened it up , found my
> direction and took off.  After a few steps I felt I was heading in the wrong
> direction, so I redid the compass thing, got my direction and took off
> again...Still wasn't feeling right, so checked again and realized that I had
> a metal zipper in my coat and the compass needle was pointing at my zipper
> each time I used my compass.  That's when I did it correctly and found my
> way to the bus transfer point.
>         Learning experiences all the time.
> Ted

> EDWARD C "TED" ROBBINS
> , CEO MBEI, Treasurer NFB of Montana & MANAGER MAB EQUIPMENT PROGRAM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rik James via
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> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 9:38 AM
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> Cc: Rik James
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] I'm Back

> Welcome back to Big Sky Country, Joy.
> Where a few feet of snow is just not what it is for the cramped city folks
> for sure.
> When they were talking so much on the news, it was interesting to reflect on
> years ago, and what life was like with a big storm.
> Life just stopped, and we played hard in the snow. And lived off what we had
> stocked away in the pantry.

> As a kid in Ohio in the late 1950s and 1960s, I remember some real big
> storms. Yes, the roads were closed, schools were closed. But it was not
> panic. It was weather.

> Our neighbors did things together. Helped each other getting a roadway
> cleared. Fixed the old fuel oil furnace that went kah flooey. And those
> frozen pipes? Yikes.
> Second thought, maybe it was kind of rough. But I can remember the fun
> parts. And not all this panic talk on the radio and TV.

> And from the early 1970s to the present in Montana, same deal.

> But little by little, expectations have changed.
> As a society we have evolved a consciousness that wants to maintain an
> illusion of control, and to be able to do and go where we want regardless of
> inclement circumstances.

> The peaceful feeling of a good hard winter freeze, and the winter blanket of
> snow.
> Why, it's a wonder to behold. Why can't we just, just you know, just chill?

> One winter, I think it was 1993 in February. In Montana, and here in
> Bozeman, there was this big storm that came through. Temperatures just
> plunged. With a  50 mph North by Northeast wind. From forty above to 20
> below sort of deal. I remember being out walking in town around 10 in the
> morning. By 1:00 it was bitter cold. Peeled big chunks off paint right off
> of our house. And no primer or paint would stick on it for years.

> Anyhow. Talk about your panic.
> We had some sort of friends here on a sky vacation.
> It was the early days of having that thing called the Weather Channel on
> cable tv.
> Their car's fuel line froze up. So they got all panicked and crazy. The
> described to their friends they felt like hostages in our house. They were
> addicted to that weather channel. I think it was like 4-5 days that cold
> snap lasted.

> Well, we have never had them back.
> I might have gently suggested they might want to look at some of those
> fancier places nearer the ski slopes. Where they could have the Weather
> Channel on all night in their room if they wanted!

> Ha ha. Good stories.

> How does your nose run in a snow drift?
> Up?  Down? Sideways? Depends on which way you landed, I reckon.
> Where does this road go?  It don't go nowhere, it stays right where it
> always has been.

> I have been getting lost a bit in Bozeman, trying to figure out where the
> heck I am.
> Which corner is this one?  The sounds are a bit different, too.  Trying not
> to hit a panic button. Trying not to break my fool hip on this ice!

> GPS?
> What does that stand for again?
> Getting Pretty Strange?

> Cheers, Joy. Thanks for going that extra mile.
> We'll fuel up and help turn our attention to our legislative agenda here
> presently.
> Bill numbers. Blurbs to spout about the why and how. And the urgency of now.

> Rik





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