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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Keith Henson via extropy-chat<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>> In our times, we have a lot of uses for customer service call centers...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>>...You need to be on broadband to work tech support. Not sure how much of West Virginia is wired up. There is a big area around Greenbank <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Green Bank WV: the "secret" underground bunker for congress should we have a nuclear war. I have long suspected that whole business was a cover story of some sort. But it could be true I suppose. I don't know how to verify.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>>...where WiFi is illegal...</span>Keith<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Keith since those DNA tests came along, a bunch of us distant cousins found each other and we have an email circle (plus some Face Book pages.) Most of my WV cousins have DSL, and they complain that it slows down a lot when the neighbor starts downloading the latest porno video.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>This is a photo I took of my great grandmother in 1967 when I was age 6 and she was 81. She and a spinster daughter were still running the farm where my grandfather and his 8 siblings grew up, in that house in the background.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><img width=332 height=456 style='width:3.4583in;height:4.75in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D645AF.AC8614F0"><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>They didn’t have electricity out there until after the war, but even in the 1960s they didn’t really use it much. They had a refrigerator, but not laundry machines (still used washboards then.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Granny is making apple butter in this enormous copper kettle she had. She would build a fire underneath it with branches or scrap lumber to stew the apples until it was just right, then they would put it in jars and store it under the house for the coming winter. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>I don’t remember much about my cheerfully misspent childhood, but I remember this day, because Granny’s world was so different from mine. In those days it was all about getting into space in my world. In hers, it was about working the garden, getting the vegetables and apples preserved for the coming season.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>I remember comments she made. She would put two new silver dollars in with the apples while they stewed, to be recovered afterwards. She claimed the silver dollars would prevent the apples from sticking to her copper kettle. She said the newest silver dollars didn’t work for some reason, so she had to get the ones from about 1964 or earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Their lives were far different from mine. If Granny were here today, right now, she would be astonished to see a picture of herself on this TV-like machine (she never owned a TV but knew what they were (she had a radio (so when I saw her in 1969 and mentioned the men walking on the moon she commented “Oh I heard about those fellers doing that.”))) Theirs was a different world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>