poll: BBSes?

Today's photo is from the St. Lawrence Market. I decided to brave the blustery snow yesterday morning because of a craving for fresh-baked sesame bagels from St. Urbain Bakery (thanks to my friend John Chew for getting me hooked on these). Before I got to the bakery, I visited the bakery on the first floor (in the photo) and bought some mouthwateringly good sunflower spelt bread.

Stage 2 of of our move about to begin. Hudson Movers will be descending on our old place later this week to take away the rest of our apartment contents to put into storage. Jeff has been doing a ton of packing for the past while, usually after work.

I've been doing some packing, but I'm not much help because of my tendinitis. Even folding and packing clothes is tough on my tendons; as a result, I can only do a little at a time. I hate this, of course, but can't do much about it except try to be patient.

Jeff, by the way, has been incredibly patient through the whole process, and understandably is pretty exhausted by the end of the day. Many thanks to our friends Scott and Walter for helping out the other day, and to my friend Luisa for helping me with purging/packing the pantry and fridge tomorrow after she finishes work! Doing the pantry should be interesting and probably a bit scary since I haven't done a proper purge in a long time.

A short while back, my friend Harald reminded me of the "chkmef", a BBS-type message board that he had set up for friends, and that reminded me of all the hours I spent on BBSes back in the day when there were BBSes.

POLL QUESTION: Did you ever use a BBS? Which ones? My family hosted the "Bricmef" on our TRS-80 Model III. The software was written remotely by friends (a fascinating process to watch on our end), and the message board was actually where Jeff and I first "met." :-) It would be several years before we met in person, and years more after that before we became romantically involved. Go figure.

I also remember the "Micmef", hosted by my friend John Chew, also a message board for our particular group of friends at the University of Toronto. Years back, Reid and Luisa gave me some old printouts of some old Bricmef posts.

And of course I remember GEnie...does that count as a BBS?

And another poll question: How many of you HOSTED BBSes?

Apologies for the somewhat distracted and highly unedited nature of this post. Jeff and I are leaving in a few minutes for more packing/moving in a few minutes...

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