<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">Yet you might think that since many, many people pay off mortgages or pay off mortgages on sales of property every single year that they might have it down to a science by now. It is not like I am the first mortgage that has been paid off in the past 30 years......</span><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">Maddog, I totally agree with you. I was astonished and more than a little annoyed that it took so long. You'd think it was the first time (every time!). Apparently the banks aren't too innovative in this respect...</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica;font-size:16px">-Bruce</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 7:45 PM <<a href="mailto:r270@mrt4.com">r270@mrt4.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Here's my story about time...<br>
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I had an old computer I was using as an email server and I just configured the time to sync once a day, which seemed often enough for email. The clock started to go bad, drifting several minutes a day (I don't remember now if it was forward or backward because I'm getting pretty old myself), and when it resynced each day, well, I couldn't understand why my logs kept indicating that the system was violating causality...<br>
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> You could plan a vacation in Switzerland in 2030, but if an asteroid<br>
> obliterates Switzerland in 2028, your vacation plans become null and void.<br>
> It's not a contingency you need to plan for when making your vacation<br>
> plans.<br>
> <br>
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Depends on the size of the asteroid. (apocalypse humor)<br>
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Ronald<br>
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