Anyone out there still reading this echo, last message here in Aug. :(
Yes, we're still here.
Yep, still here. :)
Been too quite hu. :(
Yep, still here. :)
Vcool Janis ... I guess things sure not what they use to be in Fido land.
Well... sometimes real life gets in the way. ;-)
Some echos are still quite busy, but not that many. COOKING
is very busy still.
[...]Some echos are still quite busy, but not that many. COOKING
is very busy still.
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I see recipes is busy too. :)
Hehe.. yes, that one is an imported newsgroup, I believe..
Sean Dennis recently took over the HOME_COOKING echo, and
that one I believe is pure fidonet "users" <bg>.
Whats real life?
I live in Clgary CA, No real life here, just a lot
of clowns.
Yes, we're still here.
Activities of Daily Living, supposedly. Cooking...
washing... mending... explaining for the umpteenth time why
I won't even try to carry a three hundred pound wheelchair
up & down the stairs. Third Chakra stuff, needed for
physical survival. I find the stuff inside my head more
interesting... and in the grand scheme of things I suspect
it could be a lot more important. You too...?? :-)
Hey... if you & James live in Calgary, it can't be
*that* bad! I live in Vancouver, where the majority of
... explaining for the umpteenth time why I won't even
try to carry a three hundred pound wheelchair up & down
the stairs. Third Chakra stuff, needed for
Wow!
physical survival. I find the stuff inside my head more
interesting... and in the grand scheme of things I suspect
it could be a lot more important. You too...?? :-)
Well not that much, I'm a c-3 quad and I live on my own too.
Most times I like reading, running my bbs + gypsy-designs.com,
girl watching and spending my money. Oh ya and drinking coffee.
James used my bbs, Gypsy BBS for years now, but the bbs is
pretty slow these days,
How's the weather in Van these days?
My body has a few quirks, though, to keep me humble.... ;-)
So is ours. Hang in there... James & I need you!
Although the folks who still use this medium have
certainly diminished in number, I believe you're providing
an important service. A large proportion of my own modem
buddies are physically disabled and/or on a limited income
and/or residing in an area where other options aren't
available to them. I value the work you're doing.... :-)
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow... [chuckle]. Nanaimo
seems to have got most of it, but we have a few inches. Here on
the Wet Coast the stuff doesn't hang around for months as
it does in other parts of the country... it's a novelty for
us. And because we cleverly selected a wheelchair which
was able to handle hills & rough terrain, it handles snow
fairly well too. We could use some ideas, though, about
attaching a snowplough in front of this rig. The one
remaining problem is ground clearance... it doesn't do well
in deep snow. :-))
popular. <Cha-G> Kevin even gates a few NGs, and grants me
an email "soupgate" <term?>, so I only traipse off to
community I-net connections about once a month.
BTW... how's your daughter? And how are you?? :-)
She's doing remarkably well, considering.
I'm struggling a bit,
but the semester's almost over and I'll be glad to see
the back of it.
My body has a few quirks, though, to keep me humble.... ;-)
Is *that* what they are for!?! <LOL>
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow... [chuckle].
RRR!!! You two chuckle all you want, but I have a cul-de-sac
*full* of spoiled neighbours, who don't seem to own snow
shovels. On my way to the community connection today, I expect
to volunteer to dig a few out again.
We could use some ideas, though, about attaching a snowplough
in front of this rig.
I wonder if they make chains and skis for chairs. <L>
I only traipse off to community I-net connections about once a month.
My pleasure.
RRR!!! You two chuckle all you want, but I have a cul-de-sac
*full* of spoiled neighbours, who don't seem to own snow
shovels. On my way to the community connection today, I expect
to volunteer to dig a few out again.
I hear you. We've had similar problems with a few of our neighbours, and I'm not unaware of the difficulty of
getting around... much of it caused by the thoughtlessness
of other people! Nora's wheelchair can handle a few inches
of new snow. It's good enough to take her home from
wherever she happens to be when the stuff begins to fall.
If there is an accumulation of twelve inches or so... as we
had yesterday... I can glance out the window & say "We're
not going anywhere for awhile." We know what we are up
against. The real problem begins when slush accumulates at
the intersections & freezes overnight, when the local
stores don't bother cleaning up the gunk which falls off
their awnings into the middle of the sidewalk, and when
packed snow is quite treacherous. We could be more than
halfway to our destination before we encounter these things.
When it doesn't snow around here we have other problems...
and again, I blame other people more than I blame Mother
Nature. We get several inches of rain within a few days,
for example, and all the sewers are plugged because the
burning of leaves is now forbidden & the city work crews
seem to be waiting for the last leaf to fall before they do
their annual cleanup of same. On a number of occasions
I've arrived at an intersection with Nora & found a raging
torrent or, at the very least, a mud puddle large enough to
hide the curb. She broke a front wheel under such
conditions when the bottom of a ramp was invisible.
In less inclement weather, people build sidewalks
& forget to include ramps along their "detour routes". One
of our friends also broke a front wheel in such a
situation. The only alternative was to go six or eight
blocks out of her way. She decided to risk using the curb,
but her chair couldn't handle it.
Oh... and here's another example. We should keep
cars off the road & take the bus in this weather, right??
In theory it seems like a good idea. In practice it
doesn't always work as planned. We heard on the news that
only 20% of the Vancouver buses were operational this
morning. The guy who was supposed to authorize someone
else to de-ice the trolley wires misread a memo... (sigh).
We could use some ideas, though, about attaching a snowplough
I wonder if they make chains and skis for chairs. <L>
Probably not. But you've just given me another
idea. What about the ships which break through the ice up
North? How do they do it?? Might come in handy to be able
to do that with the frozen slush at the street corner....
;-)
Happy new year, BTW!
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