(Continued from previous message)   
      
   I had considered "The Wall Cloud BBS", but one of my first users   
   had suggested "The Thunderbolt BBS". I liked it so much, that "it   
   stuck"...and her son provided the opening ANSI screen lightning bolts.   
   While they are on Facebook, they no longer do BBSing.   
      
   HG>During the past year usage has diminished to an alarming degree,   
   HG>especially by hams that stopped by to read or dwnld the weekly ARRL DX   
   HG>and propagation bulletins. When they arrive here they are too old to   
   HG>have any meaning for the actual period.   
      
     I download the bulletins manually via email, and post them into the   
   ham radio areas here, via a message utility. But, as you noted...by   
   the time they're posted, many are out of date.   
      
     I thought my BBS was the last one in Arkansas, but I saw in one of the   
   Sunrise Doors InterBBS games of a user whose system was in Arkansas. So,   
   I have to find out where that one is located. Yet, unlike when I first   
   started with dial-up only, the BBS (one of the few hobbies I can still   
   do), is telnet and web only. Even if I'm the only logon, I still enjoy   
   interacting with the message bases, adding to the file areas (especially   
   some of the bizarre stuff I see on Facebook), and playing the doorgames.   
      
     Ironically, my late wife was a great winner, but was a sore   
   loser...especially in the door games on the BBS. Just before I proposed   
   to her, I said "I'm ahead of you in these games", and I thought to   
   myself "that means none for me tonight". To which, she said "you know   
   that means none for you tonight!!". I thought "Gad!! She's reading my   
   mind!!". LOL   
      
     Anyway, since it's now our Tornado Season, the BBS tends to be   
   offline more than online, due to the increasing occurrence of   
   thunderstorms. The port sniffers won't be happy about the downtime, but   
   they never logon, anyway.   
      
   HG>Ditto and to boot I have now a free ride at the health care center and   
   HG>hospital for the rest of the year.   
      
     I'm going in for an MRI of my neck on Thursday, and an EMG (electric   
   nerve conductivity test) on St. Patrick's Day...and I will be GREEN   
   afterwards, from all the "torturous acupuncture". But, if they can rule   
   out neck surgery and paralysis, then I can look to schedule outpatient   
   prostate surgery. While not cancerous, the enlarged prostate (which I've   
   had for 15 years), has really become a nuisance. However, the urologist   
   doesn't want to do the prostate surgery, unless he sees that neck   
   surgery isn't an issue.   
      
     So much for not having a large amount of medical bills this year. :P   
      
   Daryl, WX1DER   
      
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