On 2018 Nov 02 10:14:00, you wrote to me:

 HG> Good evening Mark,

 ml>> as i'm reading this, yes it is... as i write this it is 20:34
 ml>> -0400... today has been a long day... we had to dig test pits in raw
 ml>> woods/forest today... lots of vines and undergrowth making it hard

 HG> Europe did go back to standard time oct. 28th so it's now -0300 hrs.

yeah, ours are currently

  DSTstart=Second Sunday In March At 2:00
  DSTstop=First Sunday In November At 2:00

 HG> What are those test pits for?

we have to see what the soil is like for construction projects... in this case,
 they're going to be stripping off a lot of the woods/forest and turning it
into an apartment complex... they have to know what the soil material is like
and how much weight it can hold as well as the moisture content... all this for
 the foundations and concrete pads the structures will be built on...

 ml>> the pits dug, we ran some penetration tests to see how firm the soil
 ml>> material is at that point... one of our holes was 25 feet (7.62 meters)
 ml>> deep... some grueling work at times climbing up and working on the
 ml>> slopes in those conditions...

 HG> It's a fact of life that all upward slopes are taxing. ;o)

hahaha, yes, that's very true 

 HG>> I'm also glad to see one area after another come back to life again.
 HG>> Since Florence and other weather disasters only the SYSOP echo has
 HG>> been alive.

 ml>> SYSOP? hummm... i know there are several sysop echos but i remember

 HG> The echo is FN_SYSOP the 'INTERNATIONAL FIDONET SYSOP ECHO' as it states
 HG> in the description.

OH! ok... yeah FN_SYSOP is a different area than SYSOP and others...

 ml>> PS: you really need to get your fidonet system somehow connected to
 ml>> the internet so you can get messages faster and be connected to more
 ml>> systems for messages... sadly i'm no longer doing POTS connections

 HG> I know but first of all I'm in no hurry to get messages faster because I
 HG> won't get more time to do them and I have no users that wont other areas
 HG> than I carry,

i can understand that...

 HG> but I actually have a more modern machine to set in after I can
 HG> find/get hold of PCI card containing a PS/2 mouse socket.

why? i don't understand...

 HG> Whatever else there is on that card won't matter because the one I
 HG> have does have only one USB port and an IrConnector in addition to the
 HG> PS/2.

 HG> As a last resort I could use an USB mouse but that leaves only 2 USB's
 HG> for other uses on the 3-port USB card.

you do know that USB HUBs exist, right? you plug on into a USB port and now you
 have more USB ports... IIRC, USB can handle up to 256 devices on each
port/channel...

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