Subj : Checking in
To   : All
From : George Pope
Date : Fri Dec 31 2021 12:44:56

Who've we got active in here, as 2021 ends & we enter 2022 (hopefully it's not  2020, too. I had enough with just the once!)

& whereabouts in this great BIG land are you?

I'm all for using the Arrogant Worms;' song, "Canada's Really Big" as our new  national anthem if people keep pushing for one, because they don't understand  history nor how history/traditions is extolled in song.

Nobody can argue against that we're really big.  We're #2 & if Russia keeps on  shrinking, we'll soon be first!

I'm in Richmond, BC, just butting up against the Fraser River estuary, so I  have the best winter weather in all of Canada; I like to call this the "Tropics of Canada."  Most years Florida gets more snow than we do!

I'm married with children at home (one grown, one new teen) & work part-time 
&/or occasuional from my home office (nice desk & computer in corner of mny 
bedroom, with oft-used coffee making supplies right beside me!

I'm an old Fidonaut from before the Y2K computer sales killed BBSing & Fight-O- Net.  I used to be on a dozxen or so boards daily, all over North America (DOS  dial-in -- remember those good times? I got a flat pack mailed bill showing  6,000+ minuted of LD a month, all marked as "$0 (included in plan)"; I paid 
$30/mo for truly unlimited calling, just because our local telco wanted to 
screw the competitor who had signed me up on one of my lines (the one I used  for internet, including the rare telnet BBS)

Sprint tried calling me to get me back. When I said I'm paying 0.5c/minute to  call New York, Florida, Ontario, & Hawaii, they could only say, "You've got a  REALLY good deal!"

I did! When I got a girlfriend back east, we chewed up another 2K  minutes/month, all hours (no closed times for me)

I ended up marrying her in 2007, & we're still going!

Write back, say where you are & tell us a bit of y'self, please? Let's wake  this echo up!

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-5
 * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)

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