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The Hobbit Hole V - Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
ecurbh
Posted on 12/11/2003 2:07:57 PM PST by ecurbh
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Where Many Paths and Errands Meet...
The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
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To: trini
Goodnight Trini! Check back in when you have a few more minutes! :-)
19,121
posted on
01/30/2004 5:58:38 PM PST
by
Wneighbor
(Lone Star Moot the Kim-n-Kim Birthday Bash!)
To: Ramius
My house is over 20 years old, so I doubt that they have fiber optic in the walls. What I think they mean is that the whole neighborhood has been rewired with fiber optic lines.
BellSouth did a whole lot of work in my neighborhood this past year, but they never touched the connections IN the house.
19,122
posted on
01/30/2004 5:58:51 PM PST
by
RMDupree
(HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)
To: RMDupree
Actually, Ruthy... the hundred bucks is mainly for the cost of the router (modem) that they will install. They probably want one of their techs to do it because there are too many setup items that too many customers get wrong and foul it.
If you can scrape up the C-note, it would absolutely be worth it in the long run.
To: trini
Nighty night, trin!
19,124
posted on
01/30/2004 5:59:18 PM PST
by
RMDupree
(HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)
To: trini
Nighty night, trin!
19,125
posted on
01/30/2004 5:59:19 PM PST
by
RMDupree
(HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)
To: RMDupree
Wow.... clean desks every day!!! That's nuts!!! I would never make it. I'd be fired!
19,126
posted on
01/30/2004 6:00:14 PM PST
by
Wneighbor
(Lone Star Moot the Kim-n-Kim Birthday Bash!)
To: 2Jedismom
Yeah. But, you've got a Baskin Robbins!
19,127
posted on
01/30/2004 6:00:48 PM PST
by
Wneighbor
(Lone Star Moot the Kim-n-Kim Birthday Bash!)
To: Ramius
Is this modem a special kind of modem or something? I installed DSL at my boss's home office with the modem and install disk they ship to you.
19,128
posted on
01/30/2004 6:01:36 PM PST
by
RMDupree
(HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)
To: Wneighbor
I really gotta latch in the chickens for the night.
21 degrees...and dropping. I gotta do it now...it's not gonna warm up.
19,129
posted on
01/30/2004 6:02:54 PM PST
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 4 Chickens)
To: RMDupree
The fiber doesn't change anything installation-wise. They are simply being the lying
b@stards that they are are, being a telco/cable company after all.
Those routers that they install cost them about $300 to $500 each. They count on recouping that with the installation fee and several months of service.
Don't they periodically run a "free installation" promo??
To: Wneighbor
It's trivial and stupid, no doubt about it. But I heard rumors that some cleaning people have stolen social security numbers from desks and obtained credit cards.
That may be the whole reason behind the madness.
19,131
posted on
01/30/2004 6:03:21 PM PST
by
RMDupree
(HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)
To: Ramius
Hi-speed internet is another reason I haven't moved out yet...
19,132
posted on
01/30/2004 6:03:28 PM PST
by
JenB
(yakusoku wa iranai)
To: 2Jedismom
Okay. Go take care of your girls! Make sure they're warm and cozy for the night. Tuck 'em in nice.
19,133
posted on
01/30/2004 6:04:33 PM PST
by
Wneighbor
(Lone Star Moot the Kim-n-Kim Birthday Bash!)
To: JenB
It's available in lots of places, you know... :-)
To: Ramius
YES! They have a promotion for free installation, free modem (after rebate), a $50 cash back offer if you order DSL online and two free months of service once you're hooked up.
I went for it, and that's when the CSR said that I can have that special but only if I pay the extra $100 since my neighborhood has fiber optic lines and I MUST have professional installation because of it.
19,135
posted on
01/30/2004 6:06:00 PM PST
by
RMDupree
(HHD: Deep roots are not reached by the frost.)
To: 300winmag
Thought you might find this article from the local paper interesting:
LINCOLN - Tazewell County State's Attorney Stewart Umholtz says he now believes a knife taken from a Lincoln man on the Par-A-Dice is legal and not the illegal switchblade police charged him with possessing.
Umholtz said Ryan Sisk can have the knife back. "It's right here in the drawer, and if he wants it, give me a call."
Sisk, 29, went to the Par-A-Dice with his mother Jan. 10. As he entered the boat, a security guard spotted a folding knife clipped to his belt - a Kershaw Ken Onion "Chive" - and offered to hold it for him while he was onboard. Sisk agreed.
He later was paged by security. A state trooper arrested him for having a switchblade knife, illegal in Illinois, and he was hauled off in handcuffs.
After examining the knife, Umholtz had backed up the trooper, who had charged Sisk with unlawful use of a weapon, a misdemeanor.
Sisk was to appear in Tazewell Circuit Court in March to argue his case or, admit his guilt, pay a $250 fine and attend rehabilitation classes. Sisk was resigned to pay the fine, figuring it was cheaper than hiring an attorney and missing work.
But then Umholtz went beyond Illinois law and did a little checking. Kershaw, the manufacturer, Umholtz said, maintains on its Web site that its knives are legal in all 50 states.
He decided to drop the charges against Sisk - but that's not the end of the story.
Sisk and his knife have become something of a media sensation. The article, which first appeared in the Lincoln Courier, was reprinted in the Journal Star and picked up by other media. That's how an exotic-knife dealer in Hanna City heard about it.
The knife dealer, whose day job is to crew on boats, swears by the knife's safety and legality. He argued it is legal because it is opened by pressing on the blade, not a button, as specified by Illinois law.
That led Umholtz to do some additional research, after which he decided the knife did indeed fall outside the definition of a switchblade and was therefore legal. Kershaw, of Wilsonville, Ore., attempts to answer the switchblade question on its Web site.
Meanwhile, the "Chive" is back on the shelf at the Lincoln Wal-Mart after being yanked following inquiries about the knife at the retail chain's headquarters in Benton, Ark.
To: RMDupree
Well, that part makes sense. We're required to keep our offices locked at all times for reasons like that. And with school the way it is I'd keep my office locked for personal reasons too even if it weren't "the rools."
19,137
posted on
01/30/2004 6:07:11 PM PST
by
Wneighbor
(Lone Star Moot the Kim-n-Kim Birthday Bash!)
To: RMDupree
The corporate weenies That's all you need to know, right there. This is madness.
To: RMDupree
Rip off artists. Orcs they are!
19,139
posted on
01/30/2004 6:08:03 PM PST
by
Wneighbor
(Lone Star Moot the Kim-n-Kim Birthday Bash!)
To: RMDupree
That was a dirty lie.
Thieves. Filty little thieves. We hates them.
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