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    > > when I was that much younger   
      
    >   Weren't we all? :)   
      
   Not Bob Dylan ("I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now") &    
   Keith Richards is always "notwithstanding" on these topics. . . :D   
      
    >   My memory is so good, I remember stuff that never happened.  :)   
      
   I'm not too much there yet; working on it, though, so I can write two    
   versions of my memoirs; one actual(for posterity) & one "enhanced"(for   
   entertainment value)   
      
    >   It's pretty quiet around here.  A lot of lurkers (come out, come out,   
    > wherever you are) and a few posters.   
    >   We've lost people since your day.  Some have just dropped out, some   
    > disappeared, some have died, and a few are probably in a witness    
   protection   
    > program.   
    >   Bill White retired as mod years ago with Jim White (no relation)    
   taking   
    > over who retired and turned over the mace and orb to me.     
    >   Earlier this year Nancy Backus died.  You may remember her.   
    >   I had the pleasure of meeting Jim and Nancy in Rochester, NY a couple    
   of   
    > years ago.   
    >   Daryl Stout is in and out and he had the pleasure of meeting me a    
   couple   
    > of years ago as well on my grand tour around the US.   
    >   Ed Vance is still around, met him a couple of times.   
      
   I certainly remember Nancy Backus, & Daryl Stout (been conversing with him    
   in my old echo: "FUNNY "), who updated me on her 'status'; may she RIP -    
   she was a good lady. . .   
      
   The other names (White & Vance) are tickling neurons in here somewhere, but   
   I've lost so much of my ability to pull up files from the old sub-basement    
   of rusted old cabinets.  Sucks because I CAN remember pullng up anything    
   with abnsolute ease & no delay. . .   
      
   Diottoi memntal acuity; it'd be better if Ui'd forgotten that I could   
   multiplty 3-digit numbers yogetther in my head! But nooo.. . . I'm up to 2-   
   digit again, but I'm so damn slo o o o o o w. . .    
      
   The price to pay to get older, I guess.   
      
   I like to say, "Well, getting old, but it sutre beats he alternative" ^   
   without fail a woman will say, "I'd rather stay young" & I reply, "That's    
   not the alternative, Ma'am."   
      
   I'm a bad person, I think, because I refuse to use euphemisms to talk about   
   death.   
      
   & I mock those who do. . .   
      
   "he passed on. . ." (me: "I didn't know he played football!")   
   "He's in a better place." (me: "Tahiti? Why didn't the bastard take me?")   
      
   I keep going until they finally say he DIED.    
      
   Most of my menmories are of times I'l never be able to relive, involving   
   hitchhiking, travel, & buxom young lovelies(I was young, too, so all   
   appropriate)   
      
   My doctor recently said I had to cut my sex life in half; I asked, "Which   
   half? the talking about it or the thinking about it?"   
      
   I had already stoped talking about it because appasrently that's no longer    
   a thing these days. . . oh well. . .   
      
      
    > > I'm in Metro Vancouver   
      
    >   I'm in Huntington, WV, on the Ohio River were Ohio, Kentucky and WV    
   meet.   
      
   So you're a Yankee? & your radio stations begin with W, not K?   
      
   I've not traveled too much in the USA, as that would've been illegal,   
   probably, & I liked to fly low. . .   
      
    >   We had some warm weather a few weeks ago, in the low triple digits.   
    > Usually our summers are only in the 90s and often humid enough to drown    
   a   
    > fish.   
    >   Our winters aren't that bad but this last February we had a big cold    
   wave   
    > with below freezing temps for a couple of weeks, with lots of ice and    
   snow   
    > that lasted much too long.  Rather Arctic like, which is unusual for us.     
   We   
    > usually run in the 20s to 40s.   
    >   It snows here from time to time but three inches is enough to shut    
   down   
    > the town.  :)        
      
   We're pretty mild where I am =- I call us the tropics of Canada. . . :)   
      
   Daryl used to bug me about how cold winter mujst be for me, being in    
   Canada, until I pointed out it'd breen 3 years in a row he had more snow    
   than me while he was in Jacksonville! ^ rthe other year Florida froze so    
   badly it killed my favourtite fruit & juice crop (plain white grapefruit)   
      
   I finally found a brand of red grapefruit juice that wasn't sweetened    
   beyond the ability to recognize grapefruit as the main juice.   
      
    > > half paralyzed from a burst aneurysm(you heard right   
      
    >   Sheesh.   
      
   No biggie now -- 98% who've had one burst were brought in DOA. I was    
   brought in complaining &8 asking questions, thank God in Heaven.   
      
    > > I work PT, 4 hours/week   
      
    >   I retired five years ago but the company can't do without me and back    
   to   
    > almost full time.   
    >    I am in private security and mostly its sitting around looking   
    > important.  But for the most part I'm inside, warm (or cool) and dry.   
    >    I am planning on re-retiring in January.   
      
   Consulting is fun. I'm essentially retired/self-employed; I can count my 4   
   hours as an ongoing contract, IMO.  I work whenever I want there, & do   
   whatever side hustles I can find, like medical/etc. studies, surveys, paid   
   lobbying, & whatever I can drean up or find. . .   
      
   Got a ravenous 12yo son, & a slightly less ravenous self, wife, & adult   
   daughter, to take care of!   
      
    > > Rediscovering BBSes & Fidonet (memory: nÿ Fight-o-Net-remember?) (   
      
    >   Not really, I have been in Memories since the early '90s and we have   
    > always been a peaceful bunch.  Too old to fight mostly.  :)   
      
   Yeah, there were other echoes esigned only for fighting; I was a member of    
   one on occasion, usally because they kept changing their name & re-   
   appearing in area lists, & looked interesting & stable, until I foolishly   
   stated an opinion. .    
      
   I could hold my own, though. I tend to reply in kind; if you're deccent &   
   frienmdly, then so am I; if you're a spiteful troll, then I don't feel any   
   need to hold back. . .  (I know, I know, "Don't feed the trolls"; most of    
   them I don't, but occasionally I engage on topics that matter to me, to    
   ensure the facts are out there for those looking for them)   
      
   I'm not in MEMORIES looking to fight; just casual chat weith friendly   
   strangers old enough to "get it"   
      
   My fave Yahoo chat group of all time was one called, simply, "Thirty   
   Something" -- it kept the youngsters out, but we had some mature enough 20-   
   somethings, & that was good.   
      
   Eventually it turned into strictly a cybersex meat/meet market, & I passed.    
   . .   
      
      
   But good times while it lasted as a casual chitchat place. . . & that's all    
   I seek in here. . . :)   
      
   Not a lot of initiators in here, eh?   
      
   Enjoy your day(Sunday) & week ahead. . . Stay safe   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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