Hello Jim,

09 May 17 00:31 at you wrote to me:

 JK> Hi! Things are going well! Learning more and more every day. This time
 JK> around I am in it for the long haul. Last year when it was abruptly
 JK> shut down, I had just lost my father, and went thru a bout of severe
 JK> depression, but I am back and looking forward to the future!

Glad to see you sticking around.   I know that you were having a real time 
of it for a while. :/

 JK> In June I'm off to Sin City to marry my childhood sweetheart, then
 JK> drive to San Diego to see one of the best zoos in the U.S. by her
 JK> request. Among many other things. I have never been to either place,
 JK> and definately cannot wait to leave! I know once I get back, I will be
 JK> hooked and be ready to go back.

Congrats on your upcoming wedding.

Just remember that a set of wedding rings are the smallest handcuffs in the 
world.   (I think it was Groucho Marx that said that.)

Well, with my being twice-divorced, I think you should take my advice with a 
few grains of salt... 

I was born in San Diego at the old Balboa Naval Hospital (they tore the 
hospital I was born in a few years after).  I lived in Chula Vista for a while 
as my birth father was stationed in San Diego when he was in the USMC.  I have 
no rememberance of my time there.

You know, that's because I was born at a very early age.

 JK> How about you? How's Micronet?

Micronet's going to turn 17 years old on September 1st.  I thought it'd only 
have lasted a few years but much to my pleasant surprise, it's still going. 
It's not really busy but it comes and goes in spurts.  With the BBS setup I 
have now, Andrew Leary is the official "assistant zone coordinator" (my 
right-hand man) in Micronet.  I actually have him in my will to get my BBS 
machine.   He assists me greatly in running Micronet and he's also the IBBS 
league coordinator for League 618.  Micronet's still my pride and joy.

I'm also on the MBSE Development team.  I'm supposed to be working on the 
documentation but working six-day workweeks since last October has kinda 
hampered any free time.  I just bought a "new" (new to me; it's 30 years old) 
ham radio transceiver--a Kenwood TS-430S--for my ham shack I'm wanting to put 
in once it arrives...I think it's going to have to sit for a few more weeks, 
sigh.

I did successfully port one of my BBS doors to Linux through several hours of 
rewriting a majority of my code for cross-platform use with Free Pascal.  I've 
hit a snag trying it under Linux (it's an oddity with MBSE and Linux).  I did 
virtualize a physical install of Windows 10 Home I had on my laptop that's my 
full-time computer.  So I have it running now under VMWare Player 12.x here on 
my laptop.  When I have time (ha-ha) I am going to set up Free Pascal under 
that and see if I can get my door to compile correctly.  I'll then have to get 
a few people that use Win32 for their BBS OS and see if the door works 
correctly.  I'm also planning on installing OS/2 as a VM on the laptop to see 
how that works.  I have not yet tried to compile for 16-bit DOS as the doorkit 
I'm using (RMDoor by Rick Parrish a.k.a. Manning) won't compile but for 32-bit 
DOS, so I may just update my doors using my old code or open source it which 
was supposed to be in progress a long time ago.

My health has deteriorated over the years partially from age and from my own 
neglect so when I get home at 2:30 AM, I'm usually pretty shot.  I'm lucky to 
peel my butt out of bed by 12:30 PM.   I should be going back to days soon 
since production for the year is winding down fast.  I'm an IT support tech at 
a very old multinational corporation at their sole plant in the US that makes 
consumer-grade riding mowers (hint: their company colors are green and 
yellow). I work for another multinational IT company; I'm a contractor there 
at my customer's plant.

I herd cats here in Fidonet.  I have nine (?) echoes I'm responsible for 
around here.  I've been a RIN for 17 years and no plans to change unless 
another BBS pops up here locally and we decide to set up a local net.

I've pondered quitting the scene a few times lately due to time restraints and 
lack of interest but then I remember I've been running a BBS for 21 years and 
I can't remember life before being a sysop. 

Later,
Sean

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