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[WILLIAM <billymegab AT yahoo.com>]

Lynn....it's called the KISS principle!  Keep it simple.  The less crap you 
have the less stress in your life.  No need to buy into corporate America's 
mantra of Buy Buy Buy.  Most things have a planned obsolecence.  As we get 
older we realize it's not how much you have that's important but how little 
you need.           

Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw AT chilitech.net> wrote:  From: "SISU!" 
I felt like a technologically impaired moron having to get
> a lesson on how to use a cell phone. What's worse, I had to drive my
> neighbors almost new F350 truck...a honkin' monster of a diesel truck
> with all the bells and whistles. I was totally out of my element.

Hey Bev; I had to drive someone's new F250 diesel a while ago. I couldn't
even get it started. Who knew you had to put on the brake to turn the key?
(well *I* didn't know...I finally figured it out). I drive a 1989 F-150.
Turn the key and it starts. Put it in D and it drives.

I don't own a cell phone and hate them...the sound quality is so awful,
they pick up all sorts of outside noises. Besides, I don't want people to
be able to track me down in the bathroom or out in the barn. I've managed
50 years without one.

I can't afford to replace things as they break down, so the world is
starting to pass me by. I'm just an old Luddite. Besides, think of the
money these things suck out of your pocket. New truck with $???/month
payment, cell phone at $??/month, cable modem, cable TV (108 stations of
time-wasting shows), even caller ID costs extra $$. I don't need those
things. I'm trying to avoid trading my life force (what did Scott Nearing
call it?) to someone else so I can have more 'things'. I may have to work
part time to pay the mortgage on the farm and pay for my new fence, but
those 'things' are worth it to me.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Peasant Farmer
Tioga County, PA


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Bev,
   
  I find I rarely use all 21 speeds of my bike.  I ususally use only  the 
back (7) gears and that is sufficient for most of my cycling.  It's only 
going up monster hills that I'm forced to use the front gears.  Thinking that 
may not be a good idea for you, at least not to begin with. That makes it a 
lot easier. 
  Front and back brakes are good and you should get used to using both but 
focus mainly on the back.  Too much on the front and  you go flying ovet the 
handlebars!
  Mountain bikes are really nice and comfortable and a great way to exercise 
and get around.  Hope you learn to enjoy it
   
   
  

SISU! <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
  I'm 45 years old. I learned to ride a bike when I was 5, so one could
say that I have had this 'skill' for 40 years, but bikes today are very
different than the bikes I grew up with. I started off, probably like
most of you, with an average style, 1 speed bike, a Columbia IIRC, that
had coaster brakes. I rode that bike until my pre-teen years when I got
a Sears 5 speed. Wow, that was cool. At 15, English racers were all
the rage and I got a cheapo 10 speed-the first in my neighborhood to own
one, and I thought I was "all-that". I rode that same bike back and
forth to college classes in Atlanta when I was 21 and very poor. For
the most part, I haven't ridden much since.
Five years ago, I was diagnosed with severe RA and moderate OA. A year
later, I was diagnosed with heart valve problems. Between these two
afflictions, I have been medically relegated to either biking or
swimming for aerobic exercise. For the past year, I have been riding a
25 year old exercise bike off and on for cardio. I wanted a new bike,
but that wasn't in the cards....until now.
My son left for Hawaii today and has left his 21 speed mountain bike
here at the house for me to ride. The damn thing is so complex that I
feel totally stupid on it. I've been reading tips on Ehow.com to learn
how to ride the friggin thing. Whoever thought there would be front
gears and back gears...a suspension system, two sets of brakes, etc.
etc. on a freakin bicycle?!?!? I am feeling older and older and older....
Yesterday, an occasion arose where I had to borrow my son's cell phone
for a trip. I felt like a technologically impaired moron having to get
a lesson on how to use a cell phone. What's worse, I had to drive my
neighbors almost new F350 truck...a honkin' monster of a diesel truck
with all the bells and whistles. I was totally out of my element.
Power this and Power that..it had seat warmers for crying out loud! I
was afraid to touch any of the buttons!
I'm feeling really old and disconnected with modern life. I remember my
grandmother refusing to use a hand calculator and I thought "how silly".
I'm not laughing anymore. Does anyone else feel this way or am I just
alone, isolated and really out of touch with the world?

So okay, aside from my little pity party above, can anyone give me any
advice on riding that bike, or should I just stick with the exercise
bike in the bedroom where it is safe (and boring). I want to get out
and live, but I feel like I'm half brain dead on learning new things.

Bev, trying to put a little SISU back into my life.

-- 
Bevanron in NW Georgia EarthNSky Farm 34.498N 85.076W
SISU! (Finnish--There is no single word in English that encompasses
all that sisu means, but it combines the following ideas: guts, pep,
determination, stubbornness, perseverance, hardiness, stamina, go, do,
nerve, spunk, pluck, and grit. It's like "Just Do It!" & "Go for It!")
GO NAVY!


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I love making my own sous.  Gingered Butternut Squash soup or Tomato soup or 
Beet soup using ingredients fresh from the garden.  It's devine.  Campbell's 
got nothing on that!
   
   

"Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com> wrote:
  On 9/25/06, Lisa K.V. Perry 
wrote:

> IWhen Campbell's began making tomato soup that was ready to go--you didn't
> > have to add water or milk, I thought that was the dumbest thing I'd ever
> > seen. People have become so blankety-blank lazy that they can't add their
> > own water? Or perhaps your own water (or source of your own water) is so
> > crappy that you wouldn't want to add it and you think the soup company's
> > water from some treatment plant is better than your own? Why don't people
> > (generally speaking)
>
>
My laptop keyboard did it again. I was about to say (above)...why don't
people make their own soup? Using fresh, local ingredients (as local as your
own garden or your neighbor's). I Iwould have preferred to spellcheck my
message prior to Hal, my laptop computer, choosing to send it for me. Tried
to fix this once before, now it's acting up again. Hal has a mind of it's
own.

LisaI
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 Greetings, Bev, and everyone else,
 
I also thought it was hilarious, but there are apparantly actual uses for it.
 
www.nukalert.com
 
I actually heard about it listening to Glenn Beck on the Radio (one of those 
techie devices I love so much).
 
 
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rayzentz AT aim.com wrote:

> 
> 
> Have you heard about the new gadget called Nuke-Alert?   It's a key
> fob that beeps if the background radiation spikes suddenly.   COOL.
> So I will know just before everyone else to bend over and kiss my ***
> goodbye.
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> Ray


LOL...where would I get one of these, Ray?

Bev
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SISU! (Finnish--There is no single word in English that encompasses
all that sisu means, but it combines the following ideas: guts, pep,
determination, stubbornness, perseverance, hardiness, stamina, go, do,
nerve, spunk, pluck, and grit.  It's like "Just Do It!" & "Go for It!")
                GO NAVY!

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