Good Morning, Do! Today is Sunday, January 5 My main computer has major problems. I am trying to order a refurb (good used machine). If there is a break in the daily newsletters, then I didn't have enough money. If you have some loose change, PLEASE throw it into my cup! I hope I can keep running long enough to save the important stuff. If not, rest assured I am not skipping off to Florida or Hawaii, or Walmart. At the moment I am transferring my Eudora at 5 MB / second. It was 18 hours left, now down to "about 6 hours". Once I got it installed on a refurb, I am going to drastically weed out Eudora. There is no real reason to keep mail all the way back to 1993. I rarely look at mail ONE year back, and NEVER 27 years. That will make back-ups and transfers a lot faster. While that is going on, I am making a list of absolutely essential stuff, that I really have to save. Yes, I know, I should have made frequent back-ups, not just tell everybody else to make them. Go ahead, kick me! ___________________________________________________ Today, January 5 in  1972 U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered the development of the space shuttle.  ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award:  2 arrested after kids' Christmas gifts stolen from Ark City family's car  __________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood. --- George Santayana _______________________________________________ >From Thea I was in my ninth month of pregnancy and feeling very uncom- fortable. On top of everything, my pleas for sympathy seemed to go unnoticed by my husband. One day I told him, "I hope in your next life you get to be pregnant!" He replied, "I hope in your next life you get to be married to someone who's pregnant!" ________________________________________________`   ____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________  An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Kadan Armstrong, 18, Shannon Clark, 40, Arkansas City, Kansas  2 arrested after kids' Christmas gifts stolen from Ark City family's car  Police in Arkansas City say they've arrested two people accused of stealing Christmas gifts from the trunk of a car. Kadan Armstrong, 18, was booked for felony burglary and misdemeanor theft, and Shannon Clark, 40, was booked for misdemeanor theft. The incident happened in the 300 block of North A Street. The victims told police on December 18 that the toys were in the trunk of their car in order to conceal them from their children. Loss was estimated at $160. "The stolen items were purchased locally, so an officer contacted the store where they were purchased and made employees aware of the theft, in the event the items were returned for money," the Arkansas City Police Department said in a news release. The officer learned last Friday that two of the items had been returned to the store for a refund. The officer used surveillance video to identify Clark, who was located and interviewed. Armstrong was also later contacted and interviewed. Armstrong remains jailed on $3,000 bond. Clark has posted $1,000 bond and was released. 
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Jai Re: Laptop keyboard problems  Dear Webby, Big Question... I know you are not a fan of laptop keyboards. BUT... my keys have been falling off. Most I can replace, but one will not stay on. What in the world happened? How can I stop it? Do you know how to keep the keys on? I have been very careful with my laptop, and have not damaged it at all. This is beyond belief for me. It is 3 years old. Sure hope you have an idea, I do not. Thanks for your help, Jai  Dear Jai THAT is exactly why I am not a fan of laptop keyboards. Sure, you can buy uncomfortable laptop keyboard replacements for only 15 -100 times as much as what a comfortable, regular keyboard costs. With most laptop manufacturers the keyboards are the most replaced part, since very few people are smart enough to get regular keyboards. You can search online for replacement keyboards for your particular laptop. Their prices have come down considerably, and now they cost only 2-3 times as much as regular keyboards. Installation is quite simple and should take less than an hour. The same thing will happen again in 3 years. Maybe THEN you will listen and get a comfortable regular keyboard. If space is a problem, you can get the roll-up Indestructible Keyboard. It is so flexible, you can use it as a bra liner! Or use a few of them strung end to end for a really geeky belt! They are from $15 up, depending on where you buy them. And they ARE indestructible! You can use it in the pool, drive over it, throw it at your poor hubby, use it to whip your elephant, whatever. Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 >From Fran Although desperate to find work, I passed up a job I found on an employment website. It was for a wastewater plant operator. Among the job requirements: "Must be able to swim." 
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 The trendy dresser fancied himself quite a romeo, and was delighted to find a note pinned inside a new shirt. It contained a girl's name and address, and asked the recipient to send a photograph. How romantic, he thought to himself, very taken with the idea of this mystery woman so eager to meet him, and promptly mailed off a note and a photo.Heart aflutter, he opened her response. It read, "Thanks for writing. I was just curious to see what kind of guy would buy such a goofy shirt." ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com Use Plastic Grocery Bags for Packing Material My daughter and I regularly post parcels. I found a very cheap way to pack breakables, all I do is wrap the article then pack all around it with plastic shopping bags. Very cheap to use and weighs hardly anything, therefore you are not wasting precious money on packing material, so you can afford to add in that extra little special something. By Tommydogsmum from Australia  Thriftyfun.com also has a newsletter. If you want more than just one tip per day, or if you want to share your tips, then you can subscribe to it here: ThriftyFun  ____________________________________________________  
  
 
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 ___________________________________________________ A lawyer and an engineer were fishing in the Caribbean. The lawyer said, "I'm here because my house burned down, and everything I owned was destroyed by the fire. The insurance company paid for everything." "That's quite a coincidence," said the engineer. "I'm here because my house and all my belongings were destroyed by a flood, and my insurance company also paid for everything." The lawyer looked somewhat confused. "How do you start a flood?" he asked. ___________________________________________________ A priest had the weight of the world on him and was showing the effects. The church sent him to a psychiatrist, who ordered him to take a week off. The priest went to the largest city in the area. After about a dozen belts of neat whiskey, he found himself in one of the city's clip joints. A well built waitress in a flimsy, low-cut uniform came over and asked, "What'll it be, Father?" The priest felt to see if he was still wearing his collar by mistake, but he had none on. "How did you know I'm a priest? he asked. The waitress said, "I'm Sister Mary Margaret. I go to the same psychiatrist!" ___________________________________________________ One day a salesman stopped by the Jammer Jones farm, knocked, and Jammer's wife Frannie came to the door. "Is your husband home, Ma'am?" he asked. "Sure is. He's over to the cow barn." "Well, I got something to show him, Ma'am. Will I have any difficulty finding him?" "Shouldn't have any difficulties... He's the one with the beard and mustache, - and no horns." __________________________________________________ 
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 Today January 5 in 1781 Richmond, VA, was burned by a British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold. 1885 The Long Island Railroad Company became the first to offer piggy-back rail service which was the transportation of farm wagons on trains. 1896 It was reported by The Austrian newspaper that Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered the type of radiation that in America became known as X-rays. In Europe it is still called "Roentgen Rays". 1900 In Ireland, Nationalist leader John Edward Redmond called for a revolt against British rule. 1903 The general public could use the Pacific cable for the very first time. 1914 Ford Motor Company announced that there would be a new daily minimum wage of $5 and an eight-hour workday. 1933 In California, construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began. 1940 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) got its very first demonstration of FM radio. 1944 The London "Daily Mail" was the first transoceanic newspaper to be published. 1948 Warner Brothers-Pathe showed the very first color newsreel. The footage was of the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl football classic. 1956 In the Peanuts comic strip, Snoopy walked on two legs for the first time. 1972 U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered the development of the space shuttle. 1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan underwent prostate surgery. 1993 The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd. It was America's first legal hanging since 1965. Dodd was an admitted child sex killer. 1996 Yahya Ayyash, a member of the Hamas in Israel, is killed by a booby-trapped cellular phone. 1998 U.S. Representative Sonny Bono died in skiing accident. 2002 A 15 year-old student pilot, Charles Bishop, crashed a small plane into a building in Tampa, FL. Bishop was about to begin a flying lesson when he took off without permission and without an instructor. 2019 Do smiled. 

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