Janis Kracht (1:261/38) wrote to Steven Horn at 21:41 on 05 Oct 2011:

 JK> He did :)  Matter of fact, when we were living in Louisville, KY,
 JK> my brother thought Louisville's rainy damp winters reminded him of
 JK> Vancouver   I remember we both laughed at what they called
 JK> 'winter storms' in Louisville compared to what my brother and I
 JK> grew up with in Warwick NY. :)  In Louisville, the grass stuck up
 JK> out of the snow most times when we'd get snow. He said it was about
 JK> the same in Vancouver :)

Vancouver's snow is wet and thick.  Things dopn't stick out of it but it does
not last lonmg.

The snow has stayed away so far but ourview is toward a range of hills and you
can see the snow line creeping down.

 JK> It's been in the 60's here all week.. nice but not too cold.. now
 JK> this weekend the prediction is for Saturday 72F and on Sunday,
 JK> 79F.. with high 70's through Tuesay.. will be nice if it sticks
 JK> around, but I doubt it will.

Enjoy what you can when you can. :-)  I'm off to warmer climes in two weeks.

>> Sure, it was good to see some of my cousins post on facebook as
>> well.. Gui or not, I don't think I could convince them to join
>> Fidonet, or log in as a user 

I'd have no luck either.  All my Fidonet software is legacy stuff and will run
under Windows 7 only in a VM.

>I may have to find a BBS which carries Fido as using a Virtual Box as
>I now do
> is a bit unwieldy.

 JK> I'm sure there are a number of bbs where you can do that.

There are but how do I keep mymoderatopr's node address?

 JK> You can use the web interface here, go to
 JK> http://www.filegate.net:8080/bbbs You register as new user by
 JK> clicking on the New User prompt on the very far right of the
 JK> screen.  It's not the nicest web interface I've seen, but it does
 JK> make message areas accessible in a gui.. You can enter messages and
 JK> save them, and you can download qwk packets, but you can't upload
 JK> replies.. sadly.. I may try again to get that working .. I wasn't
 JK> successful the first time I tried. :( 

Thanks for the offer.  I will take a look.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn@northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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