I'm still around and about. The job I am interested in applying for was finally advertised about a week ago and closes in another 5 days times.
I'm working hard on my written application then will be working on some
role playing practices for an interview that will hopefully follow.
I think in around 3-4 weeks time I should know where it all ends up.
Have been inactive in BBSing the last week or so, sending Deon a few nodes to add and otherwise just having some time away from it all while I
throw my energies into the job application and supporting my wife.
She's not doing too bad but certainly has good and bad days as the emotional loss and grief of loosing her last surviving parent hits her.
She and her brothers are still trying to tidy up affairs related to
her mums estate, getting a lifestyle property ready for sale, lawyers
stuff etc.
My mum turned 77 the other day and I sent her flowers and told her how
much I loved her. I felt a bit guilty as my poor wife whilst wishing my
mum all the best must have felt sad at the same time. Sucks eh?
Oh for the record, despite the COVID dramas we're all facing and the many job losses in my country (and probably yours too I guess) I have so far
been lucky and not lost my current role. So the job hunt if really
about chasing a role I have wanted in my business for some years and
after 10 years it's finally come up. Hence my head down, total focus on putting my best foot forwards.
I hope you're doing well wherever you may be.
I'm still around and about. The job I am interested in applying for was finally advertised about a week ago and closes in another 5 days times. I'm working hard on my written application then will be working on some role playing practices for an interview that will hopefully follow.
Have been inactive in BBSing the last week or so, sending Deon a few
nodes to add and otherwise just having some time away from it all while
I throw my energies into the job application and supporting my wife.
She's not doing too bad but certainly has good and bad days as the emotional loss and grief of loosing her last surviving parent hits her. She and her brothers are still trying to tidy up affairs related to her mums estate, getting a lifestyle property ready for sale, lawyers stuff etc.
My mum turned 77 the other day and I sent her flowers and told her how much I loved her. I felt a bit guilty as my poor wife whilst wishing my mum all the best must have felt sad at the same time. Sucks eh?
I hope you're doing well wherever you may be. Thanks for posting in
fsxNet and keeping the echomail areas alive with banter.
I'm going ok. Haven't been posting so much of late. Been rather flat the last week or so. Maybe it's the loss of our girls catching up to me and the realization i'm not getting any younger. I don't know. Just flat and everything is a bit much effort.
Hello Avon.
I thank you for running FSXnet while going through these difficult
times. I'm rather new to BBSes, and FSXnet has made my life so much easier. Thank you.
I've got my fingers crossed and hope that that possition will be yours although I know you will do well no matter what direction life takes you.
I've actually switched to MBSE BBS recently. I did run MBSE back around 2005 or so, so I knew it quite well already.
What I was running before (HPT/HTick/Binkd) is/was great and worked very well but there was no BBS interface and I missed that so I switched back to MBSE after running a number of different softwares.
I went through that recently when my mom passed. I had a lot of help from my sisters so it didn't take long and I hope your wife will be passed all that soon.
A lot has changed here in BC and I am just about ready to go back to
work. I don't know if the caronvirus has changed things at the foundry,
my guess is it has but I'll find out soon if I can get back to work
there.
If not or not right away I'll have to find something else.
I think in around 3-4 weeks time I should know where it all ends up.
nodes to add and otherwise just having some time away from it all while
I throw my energies into the job application and supporting my wife.
On 07-26-20 14:09, Avon wrote to All <=-
Hi guys.
I'm still around and about. The job I am interested in applying for was finally advertised about a week ago and closes in another 5 days times. I'm working hard on my written application then will be working on some role playing practices for an interview that will hopefully follow.
Avon wrote to apam <=-
On 26 Jul 2020 at 03:06a, apam pondered and said...
I'm going ok. Haven't been posting so much of late. Been rather flat the last week or so. Maybe it's the loss of our girls catching up to me and the realization i'm not getting any younger. I don't know. Just flat and everything is a bit much effort.
Hang in there my good man, we all have ups and downs and I guess this
is one of them, But it won't last. Sending good kiwi vibes your way :)
Oh for the record, despite the COVID dramas we're all facing and the many job losses in my country (and probably yours too I guess) I have so far
been lucky and not lost my current role. So the job hunt if really about chasing a role I have wanted in my business for some years and after 10 years it's finally come up. Hence my head down, total focus on putting my best foot forwards.
Hi guys.
I'm still around and about. The job I am interested in applying for was finally advertised about a week ago and closes in another 5 days times. I'm working hard on my written application then will be working on some role playing practices for an interview that will hopefully follow.
I throw my energies into the job application and supporting my wife.
She's not doing too bad but certainly has good and bad days as the emotional loss and grief of loosing her last surviving parent hits her. She and her brothers are still trying to tidy up affairs related to her mums estate, getting a lifestyle property ready for sale, lawyers stuff etc.
My mum turned 77 the other day and I sent her flowers and told her how much I loved her. I felt a bit guilty as my poor wife whilst wishing my mum all the best must have felt sad at the same time. Sucks eh?
My mum turned 77 the other day and I sent her flowers and told her how much I loved her. I felt a bit guilty as my poor wife whilst wishing
my mum all the best must have felt sad at the same time. Sucks eh?
I've been away for a while. Busy with.. life. Working from home since February-march (I lost count on how long I've been at home). I'm not unhealthy but still quite fed up with sitting at home. But I'm alive
and so are my entire family.
On 26 Aug 2020 at 07:33p, Joacim Melin pondered and said...
I've been away for a while. Busy with.. life. Working from home since
February-march (I lost count on how long I've been at home). I'm not
unhealthy but still quite fed up with sitting at home. But I'm alive
and so are my entire family.
Being alive is a good thing IMHO.... welcome back, nice to see you
active
again.
Joacim Melin wrote to All <=-
I've been away for a while. Busy with.. life. Working from home since February-march (I lost count on how long I've been at home). I'm not unhealthy but still quite fed up with sitting at home. But I'm alive
and so are my entire family.
Sorry for all the test messages. What I wanted to accomplish was to use
a non fidonet BBS software that can use the NNTP protocol to import and
Joacim Melin wrote to All <=-
I've been away for a while. Busy with.. life. Working from home since
February-march (I lost count on how long I've been at home). I'm not
unhealthy but still quite fed up with sitting at home. But I'm alive
and so are my entire family.
Has March ended yet?
Hi there, I wanted to pop in and say hello. My name is Sonya and I'm
from
Seattle. This is my first time really getting into BBSs - my husband
has used
them since childhood and has raved about them for years. I thought I
would
join the fun and see what it's all about.
Hi there, I wanted to pop in and say hello. My name is Sonya and I'm fromSeattle. This is my first time really getting into BBSs - my husband has usedthem since childhood and has raved about them for years. I thought I wouldjoin the fun and see what it's all about.
Hi there, I wanted to pop in and say hello. My name is Sonya and I'm from Seattle. This is my first time really getting into BBSs - my husband has used them since childhood and has raved about them for years. I thought I would join the fun and see what it's all about.
Har to believe 2020 is almost over - this has been the longest and shortest year simultaneously. It hasn't been all bad - I got into gardening a bit this year and managed to grow some tomatoes, basil, strawberries, and arugula. I've got some garlic and onion overwintering right now as well.
I am hoping to turn my attention now to astronomy for a bit. I've signed up for an intro class for fun and just purchased a new telescope (a Zhumell Z130) that I now get to figure out how it exactly works!
Looking forward to chatting with everyone during the coming year. Hope you all have a Happy New Year and here's hoping 2021 is better than 2020
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Hi there, I wanted to pop in and say hello. My name is Sonya and I'm fromSeattle. This is my first time really getting into BBSs - my husband has usedthem since childhood and has raved about them for years. I thought I wouldjoin the fun and see what it's all about.
Looking forward to chatting with everyone during the coming year. Hope youall have a Happy New Year and here's hoping 2021 is better than 2020
Right on, l0nepinemall! I'm Paul... well, another Paul - as Avon is also Paul and thats who's BBS you're posting from.
Glad you decided to jump on the BBS train and checkout what we're all up to in history-land. :P Hope you like the textmode fun that BBSes are...
You've already found fsxNet, which is the most active message network on BBSes in... lol, 2021. You might like door games, and theres plenty of files to be had too... most are BBS-related, retro-computing, ANSI/text art packs and sometimes a sysOp's personal collection or interests. The best thing you'll find here is the community - the people. We're all pretty unique and I'd even say a fun group.
Hi, Sonya! Welcome to fsxNet -- and BBSin'! Great to have you here.
New blood!
Nice! The season in Utah was a bit meh, but I did manage to have a ton
of tomatoes, various herbs, some peppers, pumkins, onions, and berries.
I never manage to get more than one round of strawberries - my sister about 45 min away has batch after batch. Someday maybe I'll figure out
Act fast and you can get some great shots at the planets. My father purchased some nutty lense for his cameras - can just point and click to see rings on Saturn. Pretty slick.
Hello Sonya / l0nepinemall!
Welcome! Yes, many of us have fond memories of BBSes from the days
before Internet (and onwards). It's nice to see people "returning" to where all the fun started. =)
It's also a more relaxed atmosphere on the echomail message networks compared to all the social media platforms.
Wishing you a Happy New 2021, too!
Hi there, I wanted to pop in and say hello. My name is Sonya and I'm
from Seattle. This is my first time really getting into BBSs - my
up for an intro class for fun and just purchased a new telescope (a Zhumell Z130) that I now get to figure out how it exactly works!
Looking forward to chatting with everyone during the coming year. Hope
Seems like the fun has stuck around too - everyone seems to be having a great time from what I have seen so far :)
Wow, sounds like you had great success! I had some issues with my strawberries myself (although mine were more of the fuzzy, zorro-masked animal variety - everytime I would wait a day to pick one, I'd come back and the full berry and stem would be clean chomped off!). I tried to grow a red bell pepper but it never matured enough and stayed small and green.
Still tasted okay though. Seattle weather probably didn't give it enough time in the sunshine to grow! I have some onions overwintering right now - I sure hope they turn out okay!
sneak a peek. Your father's lenses sound amazing - I would love to see the rings on Saturn with my own eyes! What is he using?
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Hi there, I wanted to pop in and say hello. My name is Sonya and I'm from Seattle. This is my first time really getting into BBSs - my husband has used them since childhood and has raved about them for years. I thought I would join the fun and see what it's all about.
Har to believe 2020 is almost over - this has been the longest and shortest year simultaneously.
It hasn't been all bad - I got into gardening a bit
this year and managed to grow some tomatoes, basil, strawberries, and arugula. I've got some garlic and onion overwintering right now as well. We've worked on a few house projects as well and definitely had our fair share of lazy days with movies, candy, and wine. I am hoping to turn my attention now to astronomy for a bit. I've signed up for an intro class for fun and just purchased a new telescope (a Zhumell Z130) that I now get to figure out how it exactly works!
Hi Sonya! My name is April, and while I'm in Germany, saying where I'm from is harder.
I was going to make some joke about Seattle weather, but then remembered that it's cloudy/rainy more often in Germany (or at least most of it)
than it is in Seattle, and it's not like it's always devoid of the night sky, here.
So, yeah, that sounds like fun. I had some friends in the US who had a nice telescope and had a good view of the Saturn/Jupiter conjunction,
and doing things like that seems pretty cool.
Especially if we get lucky and have another surprise comet pop by.
Welcome here, and I do hope you get to see the same good parts about BBSing that your husband has (and maybe other good parts about BBSing, too, that he doesn't yet know).
What's also nice about FSXnet is that there's a no-politics rule, so
while we occasionally stray close (or into) politics with things like COVID, for the most part people stay on board with the network being
kind of a refuge from a lot of the things that plague other parts of the internet.
Personally, I like the near-complete lack of memes. Well, of the, "share this image" sort.
I mostly grow hot pepper/chiles. The sweet pepper attempts have always yielded only a couple small ones and other creatures like them too much. Definitely have that issue with strawberries - I actually bit a wire
cage around one area, the the other solution is to just plant them all over the place and hope to have enough to get a few.
I'm not actually sure. I just know it's huge. He's also on some waiting list for another larger one I guess. Should be interesting.
Welcome to fsxNet :)
I'm Anna from Karlsruhe, Germany - it's nice to see other women here :) I've used BBSes in the 90s and also used FidoNet back then, but some
weeks ago I decided to start BBSing again :)
This sounds nice, I hope you can enjoy it!
We also did more things at home, I've built my second retrocomputing
kit, a CP/M computer and created a case for it using a 3D printer. That took a while designing, testing and printing :)
I hope you have a good start into the new year!
Hi Anna! So nice to meet you. It's funny, I was told that women rarely use BBSs but I have already communicated with two
since joining! :) So cool!
Hi Anna! So nice to meet you. It's funny, I was told that women rarely
use BBSs but I have already communicated with two since joining! :) So cool!
This sounds nice, I hope you can enjoy it!
We also did more things at home, I've built my second retrocomputing
kit, a CP/M computer and created a case for it using a 3D printer. That ac>> took a while designing, testing and printing :)
Wow, that's so cool! I had to look up with CP/M meant, ha! :) I am not
quite as well versed as some on the old school stuff. But that is super neat. How long did it take to build everything from design to finish? I have never used a 3D printer but they seem super awesome.
I hope you have a good start into the new year!Thank you, you as well! Hope to chat with you more on here soon.
Hi April! So nice to meet you. I have heard there are often not many women on BBSs so it's neat to meet one straightaway!
been raining non-stop since the New Year! It normally is fairly rainy
and grey this time of year, but this seems extreme! I have been trying
to get more active to start the year and have had to fight some
downpours to get my walking in!
Thank you so much! Yes, so far it has been great. Lots of fun learning
to use a BBS and figuring out all the unique features of each one. I
know there is a lot more to still see.
Looking forward to connecting more in the future!
Hi April! So nice to meet you. I have heard there are often not many
women on BBSs so it's neat to meet one straightaway!
Yeah, nice that it seems like there are a few of us. It's nice if there
are enough that people don't just assume "gents" or whatever.
Thank you so much! Yes, so far it has been great. Lots of fun learning
to use a BBS..
And at some point you'll probably get the impulse to become a sysop. :)
That said, definitely no pressure on that count, since non-sysop users are uncommon, these days.
What's also nice about FSXnet is that there's a no-politics rule
Oh yes, that is definitely a bonus! I quit some social media in 2020 becauseall of the silly political arguments were just too much. Also it'srefreshing to get a break from all the shared images and connect
over actualcontent and communication :)
Oh nice! Peppers in general are pretty hard to grow here in Seattle. We just don't get enough sunny days. I'm sure it's fun to grow the hot ones!
Do you ever make salsa with them?
It's funny, I was told that women rarely
use BBSs but I have already communicated with two since joining! :) So
So.. by your guesstimate, how many vocal women are represented in
this hobby? (Janis K, yourself, April, and Anna? ..is that it?)
I wouldn't assume that non-sysop users are so uncommon. Just
I wouldn't assume that non-sysop users are so uncommon. Just
Okay, I'll cede the point, because I hope you're correct. :)
I wouldn't assume that non-sysop users are so uncommon. Just
Okay, I'll cede the point, because I hope you're correct. :)
Just my tuppenceworth on this; despite my being tempted to become a
sysop again, I keep thinking about doing it, and I remember what effort goes into it.
I know I can set up Enigma or Mystic in about 30 mins, but it's what happens from there that counts. If I made a half-assed BBS then there would literally be no point in doing it, and it would just bring down
the scene as whole, for just having 'yet another stock BBS'.
Being a user again over the last six+ months has been a lot of fun for
me on a personal level and so I think that at least for now, it's a good thing to have one less Sysop talking away :)
what happens from there that counts. If I made a half-assed BBS then
down the scene as whole, for just having 'yet another stock BBS'.
there would literally be no point in doing it, and it would just bring down the scene as whole, for just having 'yet another stock BBS'.
Being a user again over the last six+ months has been a lot of fun for
me on a personal level and so I think that at least for now, it's a good thing to have one less Sysop talking away :)
I loved being a user. I still do like randomly logging on to different
there would literally be no point in doing it, and it would just brin down the scene as whole, for just having 'yet another stock BBS'.
And then you can go down again in 3 months!
...but there's some fun to be had just exploring software. But it'd be nice more as point nodes or something that's not really meant to be
called or interact with other BBSs.
I loved being a user. I still do like randomly logging on to differen
Being a non-sysop is cool, and I did that for a while, but not many
sysops give their users unlimited time - they still have automatic inactivity logouts.
For me that's frustrating because I could have typed half of a long message, got up to turn off the noodles, then come back to a screen that says "You've been logged out due to inactivity!"
It also feels good to know that I'm not being watched while I'm using a BBS. Being your own sysop removes anxiety about "What's Mr Tightwad
gonna think?"
One last perk I'll mention: Other BBSs can disappear without warning.
That kills conversations, and it makes people lose their rank in doors.
I started this BBS because I've wanted to since I was a teenager. If people call it, fine. If not, Still fine. I've run points off and on
Yeah, that's never fun. That's a reason I went to Offline mail readers before I discovered points.
I never thought about that. I did have a couple of sysops back when that would pop into chat with me while I was replying to a message though.
There is that. I've had that happen plenty of times. Not so much with doors, I never really got into the InterBBS league games.
Shitty wrote to hyjinx <=-
There are people paying hundreds (maybe thousands) of dollars for ansi stock-art. They fill their BBS up with stock-art, and it's still a
stock board.
Shitty wrote to Barmed <=-
It also feels good to know that I'm not being watched while I'm using a BBS. Being your own sysop removes anxiety about "What's Mr Tightwad
gonna think?"
stock-art. They fill their BBS up with stock-art, and it's still a stock board.
Fools. I just put up my crappy ANSIs and show them off online, and
skilled artists send me replacement graphics -- pro bono!
I've never paid someone to design my kitchen or living room, so would it make any sense to pay someone to design my BBS?
Free is good. There's a dude who drew an ascii logo for me and I treasure the shit out of it.
Shitty wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Free is good. There's a dude who drew an ascii logo for me and I
treasure the shit out of it.
Just my tuppenceworth on this; despite my being tempted to become a sysop again, I keep thinking about doing it, and I remember what effort goes into it.I know I can set up Enigma or Mystic in about 30 mins, but it's what happensfrom there that counts. If I made a half-assed BBS then
there would literallybe no point in doing it, and it would just bring
down the scene as whole, forjust having 'yet another stock BBS'.
Being a user again over the last six+ months has been a lot of fun for
me on apersonal level and so I think that at least for now, it's a good thing to haveone less Sysop talking away :)
Cheers,
Alistair // hyjinx
Hi, just thought i would keep posts going by creating one of my own :-) hope everyone is having a great week!
shalom y'all!
Hi, just thought i would keep posts going by creating one of my own :-) hope everyone is having a great week!
shalom y'all!
Heya! It finally rained here in Suckramento, CA. Nice thunder and lightning, something got zapped and the power went out for 10 whole seconds. Hope it cleans the air up good.
Hey there :)Greetings, my friend!
Mine is just coming to an end (Fri night) so with a wet weekend instore for us and coming out of a lockdown I predict visits to garden centersSounds like the perfect weekend, if I'm honest!
and some junk food :) Plus some BBSing and playing with radio station playlists.
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Greetings, my friend!
Sounds like the perfect weekend, if I'm honest!
Gimme a shout if you're up for talking BBS!
Heya! It finally rained here in Suckramento, CA. Nice thunder and lightning, something got zapped and the power went out for 10 whole seconds. Hope it cleans the air up good.
See ya on MRC...
--fang
hope everyone is having a great week!
shalom y'all!
Heya! It finally rained here in Suckramento, CA. Nice thunder and lightning, something got zapped and the power went out for 10 whole
Heya! It finally rained here in Suckramento, CA. Nice thunder and lightning, something got zapped and the power went out for 10 whole
Thank God you don't live in Shitonto, Ontario. :-)
Happy New Year and Shalom to you as well. :-)
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