Re: x : keyboard not working

From	Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: x : keyboard not working
Date	2017-10-08 07:10 +0200
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On 10/07/2017 10:59 PM, Weaver wrote:
> On 2017-10-08 13:36, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 07 October 2017 22:09:43 Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 10:18:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> On Saturday 07 October 2017 07:33:17 Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>>>>> Well I had to reboot that computer with cackling hyenas in the
>>>>> background saying things like “well you should know not to launch
>>>>> an indefinite number of processes in the background”.
>>>> But yer poking around in my stomping grounds with yur old fart
>>>> characterizations. Uphill 2 miles in several feet of snow each way
>>>> to school etc etc.
>>> 2 miles of snow? We were -lucky- to have snow ...
>>>
>> You could easily have come and taken a few trainloads that winter, 1941
>> IIRC, and we would have been thankful. I did ride an old mare about
>> halfway, when it was blizzarding but had to walk the last mile because
>> that was where the only barn I could leave her in for the day when it
>> went below zero F.  One thing we always did on the farm in central Iowa
>> was take care of our work animals, and this barn was nice & tight. I
>> don't recall now that I ever noticed the manure was frozen. The little
>> boy got cold, but never frostbit, so we survived.  Out on vacation, I
>> took my present wife back down those roads about 20 years back, finding
>> grandpa's house, but all the land around it had been sold & all the farm
>> outbuildings burned, so it was just a 4 room clapboard being rented now.
>> Even found the schoolhouse I went to, but it was just a rubble walled
>> shell by then. Thatched roof long gone, but the big "Warm Morning"
>> heating stove was still there. I was amazed to see those 2+ foot thick
>> cemented rubble walls had stood the test of time.
>>
>> I also took the missus over some of the covered "Bridges of Madison
>> County" that Eastwood and Streep made the movie about, and I've been
>> twice in the little cottage in Winterset where a movie actor named
>> Marion Morrison was born.  You might know him as John Wayne.
>>
>> Its been a long, and interesting ride so far.
> Had the odd winter like that. Somehow it would work out to every third
> or fifth.
> We'd know when it was coming, because all the farm animals would start
> making their way in under their house: they knew when it was on the way.
>
> All the rest were pretty easy, and we'd walk down to the road in bare
> feet, stopping to step in fresh cow-pats for a while to warm feet up we
> couldn't feel any more, then catch the bus to school, where we'd drive
> ourselves mad with the chilblains once we got inside.
>
I thought _I_ was old...I'll be 80 in a few days...but you must be 
around 90! God go with you!

--doug

Thread

x : keyboard not working Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> - 2017-10-06 17:00 +0200
  Re: x : keyboard not working Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-10-06 17:10 +0200
    Re: x : keyboard not working Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> - 2017-10-06 18:00 +0200
      Re: x : keyboard not working Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-10-06 20:00 +0200
      Re: x : keyboard not working Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-10-06 21:40 +0200
        Re: x : keyboard not working Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-10-06 22:40 +0200
          Re: x : keyboard not working Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 00:40 +0200
            Re: x : keyboard not working Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-10-07 01:00 +0200
              Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 03:30 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-10-07 07:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-07 13:30 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-09 05:50 +0200
        Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-06 23:40 +0200
          Re: x : keyboard not working Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 00:20 +0200
            Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-07 00:40 +0200
              Re: x : keyboard not working Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 01:00 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 03:40 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-07 13:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-09 06:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Mattia Oss <mais.toast@gmail.com> - 2017-10-09 20:30 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-13 00:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-09 06:30 +0200
  Re: x : keyboard not working <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-06 17:10 +0200
    Re: x : keyboard not working Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> - 2017-10-06 17:50 +0200
      Re: x : keyboard not working tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-10-06 18:30 +0200
        Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-06 20:40 +0200
          Re: x : keyboard not working deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-10-07 01:10 +0200
            Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-07 04:20 +0200
            Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-07 06:20 +0200
              Re: x : keyboard not working <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-07 09:30 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-07 11:10 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-07 11:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-07 12:00 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-07 13:40 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-07 16:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-08 04:20 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-10-08 05:40 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2017-10-08 06:00 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-10-08 07:10 +0200
                Re: x : keyboard not working Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2017-10-13 00:50 +0200
      Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-13 05:00 +0200
  Re: x : keyboard not working David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-06 18:50 +0200
  Re: x : keyboard not working Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2017-10-07 11:30 +0200

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