Replying to a message of Roger Nelson to Bob Ackley:

 BA>> From the 2010 Farmer's Almanac: "If your dog is getting fat
 BA>> you aren't getting enough exercise." 

 RN> What if I have 5 dogs?

Dunno.  I have ten (I had eleven but found another home for one of them).

 BA>> Just expen$e.  Plus I'd rather not be taking any meds if I
 BA>> don't really need them.

 RN> I don't blame you there.  I don't even like to take aspirin
 RN> if I can fight my way through without it.

 BA>> 20 years, 6 months, 11 days, 13 hours and 40 minutes. 
 BA>> About .

 RN> You didn't count the seconds?  (-:

Nope.  In point of fact I didn't count anything, I just figure backwards.  Retirement
is effective at midnight on the last day of the month, I enlisted at about 1020 in
the morning on May 20th.

I do, however, have a 'short' calendar the folks in the computer room on Okinawa ran
off for me.  It's a booklet of nice calendar pages that begins the day I
arrived and ends
the day I left - six years later, on the same date I arrived; IIRC 2200 and some odd
days.

 BA>> As I noted in another post yesterday, heating oil is up to
 BA>> $2.565/gallon as of Tuesday morning.  That's up from $1.88
 BA>> a year ago - but there's no inflation, sayeth the
 BA>> government.

 RN> Nope!  No inflation here.  Just everything rising in price. 
 RN> I was at the market today and noticed those Hubig 5 cent
 RN> fried pies (half mooon shaped) are now selling for 89
 RN> cents.  I really liked them when I was a kid; even when the
 RN> price for them was 10 cents.

I can remember when one could stop at a gas station, put 15 gallons of
gas in the car, buy a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of coke - and get
change for a $5 bill.  Today that much gas will set one back about $45,
a pack of cigarettes is at least $2.50 (I don't smoke and don't keep track)
and that bottle of coke is about $1.50.  Everything's just about ten times
as expensive as it was back in 1960 (or the dollar has 1/10 of the value
it had in 1960, take your pick).

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