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| Dennis <dgw80@hotmail.com>: Jan 21 11:52AM -0800 >quit" if they hit a half-dollar. Right. Didn't quit 'til 1997. Gas >and cigs were well past 50¢ by then. Few days ago, Wife and I felt >fortunate to "save" on premium fuel at less than $3. According to a couple of online CPI calculators, US$0.50 in 1974 is equivalent to US$2.66 in 2018. Also, most states have raised the gas taxes significantly since then. So I guess US$3.00/gallon doesn't seem all that outrageous to me. Dennis (evil) -- My output is down, my income is up, I take a short position on the long bond and my revenue stream has its own cash flow. -George Carlin |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Jan 21 10:53AM -0800 On 01/20/2019 07:30 PM, Derald wrote: >>news is that some have to be sent back to the factory to replace the >>battery in the chest strap. > Shoot, for the prices I'm seeing, I'd just pitch it. Hubby uses one of the Polar devices and has been happy with it. Some allow you to change the battery yourself. The things aren't that expensive NEW. FWIW, if you're interested in DIY EKGs, the Kardia device is plenty slick. -- Cheers, Bev "I won't allow the half of Americans who pay no taxes to bear the burden of the other half who aren't paying their fair share." -- Guess Who |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Jan 20 10:30PM -0500 >I'd worry about breaking such a previous thing. I gave my grandma's >wedding-gift cut glass to my DIL, who I know will care for it far better >than I could. By the mid-1970s I'd realized the futility of my ever keeping a wristwatch undamaged and running and decided to try carrying a timepiece in a pocket, instead. Picked this one up inexpensively at a neighborhood this-'n-that shop and have been pleased with it, so far. >> is too damn' slow) >Are you a runner or do some other aerobic form of insanity? Do you have >problems? Nah; just accomodating chronic hypertension and learning to deal with the relatively mild aftermath of a stroke experienced this past August. I sporadically "ride" a Schwinn Airdyne thing and "ski" on one of those Nordictrak machines and am curious whether and by how much either affects every little beat of my heart. >Many have their own wrist-display device. Look at Polar units. The bad >news is that some have to be sent back to the factory to replace the >battery in the chest strap. Shoot, for the prices I'm seeing, I'd just pitch it. -- Derald ...the only traits that are passed down in your family are perversity, ego-centrism, laziness and sociopathic tendencies. --Lynn Barton, Filedheacht Music School, East Bridgewater, MA to Derald, July, 2016 |
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