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   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   
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