-=> Mike Powell wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

 MP> Here it was the local utility provider who switched their equipment
 MP> over. I am not sure what the local Bell is doing with theirs.

I have a Vonage home VoIP line that works well.  For $10 more a month, I
can get an additional FAX line that's designed to work with analog FAX
machines (Vonage provides a self-provisioning Grandstream HT802 ATA upon
service activation).  I'm tempted to activate that feature and see how a
modem works but I still want an actual POTS line for reliability reasons
and not depending on any Internet infrastructure.

More stew on a cold winter day:

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
 
      Title: Country Stew
 Categories: Crockpot, Stews, Beef
      Yield: 1 Servings
 
      2 lb Beef cuts
      5    Carrots; sliced
      3    Cut onions
      6    Potatoes; cut up
      3    Ribs celery; sliced
     28 oz Can whole tomatoes (juice
           -also); cut up
      1 c  Water
      6 tb Minute tapioca
      3 tb Worcestershire sauce
           Pepper and salt to taste
           Ground allspice; to taste
           Marjoram; to taste
           Thyme; to taste
      2    Bay leaves
      1 pk (10 oz) frozen sweet peas
 
  Put all ingredients except peas into a slow cooker. Mix all the above
  together in the crockpot cover; put on low and cook all day or
  overnight. Turn to high and add frozen peas 1/2 hour to 1 hour before
  serving. Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 408 by James and
  Susan Kirkland  on Dec 27, 1997
 
MMMMM

-- Sean


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