Re: [FRIAM] Austriallia is on fire chat here

2020-01-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 06:12:53PM -0500, Gary Schiltz wrote: > Being American and a child of the 1960s (born in 1958, before microbreweries), > I always thought of Foster's Lager as being on par with Heineken and Saint > Pauli Girl beers. Maybe it was just that it came in a big "oil can" that was

Re: [FRIAM] Austriallia is on fire chat here

2020-01-10 Thread Gary Schiltz
Being American and a child of the 1960s (born in 1958, before microbreweries), I always thought of Foster's Lager as being on par with Heineken and Saint Pauli Girl beers. Maybe it was just that it came in a big "oil can" that was the major appeal. On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 6:08 PM Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] Austriallia is on fire chat here

2020-01-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 03:39:16PM -0700, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Rus the news  here is really hard to sort out whats typical DOOM DEATH > DESTRUCTION...are you and yours safe? Do you know if you'd be going to NZ or > the US if need be for saftey reasons? Its not as bad as that. The people in Sy

Re: [FRIAM] fires in AU, WAS :Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

2020-01-10 Thread thompnickson2
Hi, Russ, Thanks for that report. What is it with the RabidRightWing pandemic?!! I suppose I have been ill-educated in some important way, but nothing in my 70 year intellectual history has prepared me to understand how fascist ideology could once again spread ... like wildfire ... acro

Re: [FRIAM] Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

2020-01-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 06:31:35AM -0800, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > That's good to hear. I've been trying to use this site: > https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/map.html > But it's awfully slow. Well that is for WA, the western 1/3rd of Australia. I hear the Nullabor has been closed to traffic the last

[FRIAM] Austriallia is on fire chat here

2020-01-10 Thread Gillian Densmore
Rus the news here is really hard to sort out whats typical DOOM DEATH DESTRUCTION...are you and yours safe? Do you know if you'd be going to NZ or the US if need be for saftey reasons? and how's the beer there? that's the question I suspect fam would like to know if they considered Aus? ==

Re: [FRIAM] fires in AU, WAS :Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

2020-01-10 Thread Gillian Densmore
Thanks all (is back to comcast still blows) So am I reading right that basically the issue is comcast has a lot physical infra and it's being a PitA to get better QOA in NM in general, much less at least 100 up and down? And that the choices are pretty limited at the moment? On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 a

Re: [FRIAM] fires in AU, WAS :Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

2020-01-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 10:10:24AM -0700, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > Yes, Russ4, please give a sense of how things are from your point of view. > Australia is one of the places that we think of going when things get really, > REALLY, R E A L L Y bad here. > > Nick > Sort of like Nevi

Re: [FRIAM] Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

2020-01-10 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
That's good to hear. I've been trying to use this site: https://myfirewatch.landgate.wa.gov.au/map.html But it's awfully slow. On 1/10/20 2:50 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:28:51AM -0800, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: >> Are you in AU now? Anywhere near any fire? > > Pretty much all m

Re: [FRIAM] To the home congregation

2020-01-10 Thread Merle Lefkoff
Now, I'm definitely coming!! On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 11:41 PM wrote: > All, > > > > I have a weakness for eggnog, which led me to buy a quart of it from Whole > Foods during Christmas. Unfortunately, when I got home and read the > nutritional label, I discovered that the recipe is overwhelming r

Re: [FRIAM] To the home congregation

2020-01-10 Thread Frank Wimberly
If anyone communicates with others who may not subscribe to the list, tell them about our return to St John's, eggnog and all. --- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profil

Re: [FRIAM] Comcast blows! who else does legit internet in town.

2020-01-10 Thread Russell Standish
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 08:28:51AM -0800, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > Are you in AU now? Anywhere near any fire? Pretty much all my life, apart from an 9 month stint in Germany, and 3 months in Indonesia. We're had some pretty bad smoky days here in Sydney, which has lifestyle impacts of course, but not in a

Re: [FRIAM] To the home congregation

2020-01-10 Thread Tom Johnson
We share the same dilemma. When I get home I would like to pick your brain about this blood sugar measurement thing. I am not finding any causal logic between my eating behavior and the testing metrics. Tom On Fri, Jan 10, 2020, 8:41 AM wrote: > All, > > > > I have a weakness for eggnog, which l