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Skriven 2013-12-14 17:54:07 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 7827 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: Gifting
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Hi Dave,

 DD> I got a Hamilton-Beach version for my friend, Dennis along with a
 DD> selection of K-cups, a tall insulated mug, a pound of 8 O'Clock French
 DD> Roast bean coffee and an R2-D2 grinder. Sort of overkill - but, he is
 DD> by best friend and has been since high school ... over 55 years ago.

 RH> And well worthy of such a gift from what I'm reading. Did you see the
 RH> little basket adapter for your own ground coffee? There are filters
 RH> available for it too.

 DD> I did not open the box - so, all I know is what I read from the
 DD> descriptions on the web sites. I know that it will do K-cups or loose
 DD> coffee. And it will accommodate tall insulated glasses/mugs or regular
 DD> coffee cups/mugs.

OK, I didn't know it was an all in one thing. You'll probably have to
look for the little basket separately but it does make clean up of
ground coffee easier.

 DD> I like the black English breakfast tea once in a while. Or just some
 DD> plain old Tommy Lipton Orange, Pekoe and Pekoe steeped until it's very
 DD> strong. No sugar or milk. And once in a while a cup of Brown &
 DD> Bigelow's Constant Comment .... wups. It's just Bigelow Tea Co. these
 DD> days.

 RH> Most mornings it's Tetley British Blend for me. Steve's been drinking a
 RH> lot of the herbals during the day after coffee in the morning. Slowly
 RH> but surely using up our accumulation of various teas.

 DD> I used to like Celestial Seasoning's Red Zinger sometimes in the
 DD> afternoon or with my oatmeal for breakfast.

A non caffienated pick me up? I think Red Zinger is one of the original
Celestial Seasoning's teas.


 DD> I was told that support for XP was going away as of 30 Sept 2013. But,
 DD> I still get updates, malware removal tools, etc. once in a while. I
 DD> have W7 on one of my boxes and after putting the "Classic Shell" on it
 DD> I have been working on getting used to it. We'll see about the W8.1 on
 DD> the new laptop - which I have yet to fire up.

 RH> I was going on what I've heard Steve say about XP; he likes Classic
 RH> Shell also.

 DD> And after we mentioned that I had the "updates are ready for your
 DD> computer" down on the task bar three morning in a row. Go figger. I
 DD> don't have the Classic Shell on the Windows 7 adjusted to the way I
 DD> prefer to do things ... although it goes a long way in the direction.
 DD> And I notice that W7 downloads and installs updates from Microsnot
 DD> when you shut down the box. I am going to have to dedicate an
 DD> afternoon or two to seeing what I can do about that - I don't like
 DD> having some megalithic software giant deciding for me what new things
 DD> that *I* need. Whilst I generally go along with what they offer - I
 DD> want a chance to review it before giving in my "Okey Dokey".

We run Fedora/Lynix (sp?) on our machines, W******** only in ways we
don't get all the viruses, etc.  Steve had enough frustrations with
W******* when he had to use it at work so didn't want it on home
machines.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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