Steven Horn wrote:

Bill, I'd be interested in knowing how this works. I don't always like my current connectivity.

Works swell! :-) Works the same no matter where I am as long as I can hit the internet. I have an account at Fidotel for this echo and as a backup for the cooking echo. He, Fidotel, will disappear for days at a time for no apparent reason. I have another account at Waldo's for the cooking echo, but he doesn't carry this one and I've never asked. He'd probably do it if someone asked. I used to go to Doc's Place and download QWK packettes via HTTP but I've lost my userid/password and never asked about getting it reset. I'll send you email and
attach a file for your perusal.

I almost envy you but we do have a place on Vancouver Island which we can

call

our own and which should keep us reasonably warm.

We bought another 5th wheel, an older/bigger one than we already had. It's pretty much permanently parked in Arizona since we bought another car and left it there, think of the RV as a small/cheap condo with water/sewage/trash/groundkeeping/parking/pool/WiFi included in the rent. We fly
to/fro Las Vegas and rent a car to get to/fro the airport/RV park (about $60 for
the 24hour car rental and drop fee for the one-way rental, a 2 1/2 hour drive but we overnight in Las Vegas before/after the flight). The original 5th wheel,
and truck for towing it, are still here in Anchorage. We use them in the summer
here in the form of a cabin that we park down in a little place called Funny River from early June through late August.

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bill swisher wrote:

I used to go to Doc's Place and download QWK packettes via HTTP but I've
lost my userid/password and never asked about getting it reset.

YahHoo. Decided to go back and hit Doc's Place/fiddle. I remembered my userid/password. Now I have a 3rd place to go if things turn pear shaped.

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bill swisher (1:124/311) wrote to THEODORE NIKODEM at 14:17 on 29 Sep 2011:

First messages I've seen here in ages. I use Mozilla as a
newsreader and pickup this echo, and one other, via NNTP. This
site is checked every 6 hours, the other/primary site, but I don't
have this echo there, every hour.

Bill, I'd be interested in knowing how this works. I don't always like my current connectivity.

It was 29F yesterday morning. We leave for Arizona the first week
of November to winter. I'm trying to find a ocean beach in Mexico
we can drive to when it get's down to the 30's in Lake Havasu at
night.

I almost envy you but we do have a place on Vancouver Island which we can call our own and which should keep us reasonably warm.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn@northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT
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bill swisher (1:124/311) wrote to Steven Horn at 14:35 on 02 Oct 2011:

Works swell! :-) Works the same no matter where I am as long as I
can hit the internet. I have an account at Fidotel for this echo
and as a backup for the cooking echo. He, Fidotel, will disappear
for days at a time for no apparent reason. I have another account
at Waldo's for the cooking echo, but he doesn't carry this one and
I've never asked. He'd probably do it if someone asked. I used to
go to Doc's Place and download QWK packettes via HTTP but I've lost
my userid/password and never asked about getting it reset. I'll
send you email and attach a file for your perusal.

The problem I have [or think I have] is that as moderator, I have to have my own node address. I have that but there are days that I could scream about running my Oracle VirtualBox under Windows 7. I did get your email and will respond separately to that.

We bought another 5th wheel, an older/bigger one than we already
had. It's pretty much permanently parked in Arizona since we
bought another car and left it there, think of the RV as a
small/cheap condo with
water/sewage/trash/groundkeeping/parking/pool/WiFi included in the
rent. We fly to/fro Las Vegas and rent a car to get to/fro the
airport/RV park (about $60 for the 24hour car rental and drop fee
for the one-way rental, a 2 1/2 hour drive but we overnight in Las
Vegas before/after the flight). The original 5th wheel, and truck
for towing it, are still here in Anchorage. We use them in the
summer here in the form of a cabin that we park down in a little
place called Funny River from early June through late August.

That sounds good although I'm not sure I could adapt to that lifestyle. I had a major illness shortly after I retired and am really not up tp driving long distances any longer. It's a shame because I enjoyed doing that.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn@northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT
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bill swisher (1:124/311) wrote to bill swisher at 16:41 on 05 Oct 2011:

YahHoo. Decided to go back and hit Doc's Place/fiddle. I
remembered my userid/password. Now I have a 3rd place to go if
things turn pear shaped.

I'd have to see if thjere was a .QWK reader for Windows 7.

Take care,

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

I did get your email and will respond separately to that.

Hmmm...I see that message was several days ago. Did you email? If so, it might
have been swept up with all the emails that I've been sending to myself telling myself that I'm the sensuous sensitive guy I've always been looking for, which gets automatically deposited in the trash.

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