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   Hello Daryl.   
      
   15 Sep 19 13:01, you wrote to me:   
      
    DS>   I co-moderate the WEATHER echo with Mike Powell...I'm still waiting   
    DS> for word of the updated ECHOLIST UPDATER site, since the passing of   
    DS> Ben Ritchey...but, I haven't seen anything else on that. I can either   
    DS> send the MOD UPD via email or netmail.   
      
   Dale Barnes, the Intermail author, is converting Ben's PowerBASIC elist bot to   
   a C++ program using SQLite currently.  He's doing it in his spare time so   
   there's no rush on it right now.   
      
    DS> around the time of my Mom's death on August 9, I decided that I'd had   
    DS> enough, so I UNFRIENDED EVERYONE, family, relatives, everyone.   
      
   I noticed that.  You should install Social Fixer.  Takes care a lot of FB's   
   annoyances.   
      
    DS> eyes. So, I sent it back overnight on Friday, and he got it on Monday   
    DS> (his wife signed for it).   
      
   What a lid. :(   
      
    DS>   To me a hobby...whether a BBS, ham radio, or something else, should   
    DS> NEVER take priority over things like church, family, health, job, or   
    DS> especially honey-do's -- in the latter case, that nice rig you have   
    DS> your eye on for Christmas or your birthday, may be going "bye-bye" (hi   
    DS> hi).   
      
   Like it says in "The Amateur's Code": [A ham is] balanced: radio is a hobby,   
   never interfering with duties owed to family, job, school, or community.   
   Written in 1928, that's still very true today.   
      
   I am off the air due to antenna problems.  I want to put up my Mosley RV-4C   
   vertical but I need a new base.  It's $50 with shipping but I am having so   
   many financial issues due to losing my IT job after my car accident that I   
   will probably remain off the air indefinitely.   
      
   I'm also wanting to sell my Yaesu FT-450D and get an ICOM IC-718.  The 450D is   
   a nice radio but it has too many menus and button-pushing for my tastes.   
      
   My current project is resurrecting an old project if I can find my code: a   
   text-based modern logging program for casual use that will export ADIF files   
   for use with TQSL.  There's nothing for OS/2 these days and I have the   
   capability to create it for OS/2, Win32, and DOS/DOS32 using Pascal.  Since   
   the Max/2 BBS is stabilized now (though it always can use work), I'm working   
   on this side project.  My program will be freeware, of course.   
      
   73 DE KD5COL,   
   Sean   
      
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