On 1/25/2014 6:35 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 1/7/2014 9:51 AM, Snag wrote:
Sure takes a lot of firewood when it's only 3* outside . But we
survived last night , even though the water supply is frozen . I
sure am glad I have an onboard fresh water tank and a pump ! This
is unusual cold for this area , hasn't been this cold since I
think they said 1996 . I hope it's at least another 18 years
before it happens again !


Sorry to hear you are having such a hard time with the cold weather
but I have tip for you when you write about it. To make the "°"
degree symbol, hold down the alt key then press 0 1 7 6 and you
will see ° magically appear on your screen. About the time you
posted, the temp around here hit 7°F which is very unusual for
Alabamastan. ^_^

TDD

I can't find the alt key on my iPad. ;-)

However, I can tap the number mode key and slide my finger up the
zero key to magically get the ° to appear. There are lots of
characters that don't appear on the iPad's keyboard(s) but can be
used by sliding up on certain letters and numbers.

Dang, I forgot that there are actually people posting to Usenet using
those snobby expensive Apple products. I don't own any kind of smart-ass
phone yet and I'm not sure I want to get one. Folks think it strange
that I have a dumbass phone and a pager. I've had a pager since the mid
1970's and my current pager/voice mail number has been the same for 25
years so everyone who counts has that number. It's rare for me to get
telemarketing calls to my pager but I once had a problem with people
calling my pager because the number was close to that of the request
line for a Black gospel radio station. So I added to the end of my voice
mail greeting, "If you're trying to reach the radio station, you have
dialed the wrong number." and I still got requests for gospel
music. I changed the message again by adding to the end, "To reach the
radio station, press the pound (#) key now." When you press the
octothorp key on a phone's dial pad, the paging system immediately hangs
up on you. Gerrrrrrr, One day I had a message from an upset lady, "I
been pressing the pound key an the dang phone keeps hangin up on me!" I
felt sorry for her and called her back to personally explain that she
had been dialing the wrong number. It's been at least 5 years since I've
had a message from someone trying to reach that radio station. ^_^

TDD