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    > Hi George, sorry for the bad quoting.   
      
   No worries -- we all started there! ;)    
      
    > My back was having issues before the speed boat. That just made it worse.   
      
    > I am well south of you in Virginia Beach.  Probaby 4,000 miles SE of you.   
    > Might be more.   
      
   Oh, sorry, thought you mentioned Seattle. . .   
      
   I knew a lady in San Diego who taught the extreme survival clasess to the   
   Navy(& others)   
      
   So you're east coast, halfway up or so?  I'm on the (B)est Coast. . .   
      
   Lived in the Beast, one winter -- that cured me!   
      
    > For laughs, I mostly garden (container type), watch youtube, and am    
   engadged   
    > in local issues and helping others out.  I adopt older medical issue dogs   
    > and cats that no one else will.   
      
    > Once I retire, I may go back to being foster-meowmie for cats.     
      
   Meowmie, eh? Cute! I had a wonderful cat who died at age 16 of kidney issues.   
   She was comatose, & since we didn't now if she was feeling pain still, I had   
   the vet give her the needle -- I cried. . .   
      
   I had her 14 years, so can't complain, TOO much, but I still miss her & wish    
   I had had more time with her. . .   
      
   What kinds of local issues? I choose to involve myself with the city affairs   
   including keeping an eye on the councilors at most every monthly meeting, &   
   speaking up when I feel the need & it's open to the public (usually prior to   
   the first agenda presentation item.)   
      
   I'm involved in advising the city managers, too, on disability &/or poverty   
   issues.   
      
   It's a good city, especially as they welcome & are responsive to, input from   
   the public at all levels. . .   
      
   I'm not having as much success advocating federally -- provincially(equiv. to   
   your state level politics), sure, but the feds don't seem  to shiv a git!   
      
   I feel like your moderates & progressives when they were trying to be heard    
   in DC, in 2016 & 2020! :(    
      
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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