Hi Steven,

>> My brother, who lives in Vancouver with his wife, tells me weather
>> there is genereally nice.  It sounds like a great area.  Looks like
>> it as well from the pictures he's sent me 

>Vancouver is certainly warmer than it is here but it can get quite damp in the
> winter.  But your brother won't have told you that. :-)

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

>> That's cold :( :(  but thankfully it's much too early for snow
>> here..

> So far so good.  The snow is staying away and the weather the last few days
> has been quite reasonable.

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

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

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

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

Take care,
Janis

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