Topic snarls

Bear in mind this is SW Ontario, same parallel as northern CA. Now, when you get north of the 49th parallel, those boys can tell you about cold, and yes they have been seeing -40 or lower. You see it can't get cold here anymore, Lake Erie won't even freeze, it's all that waste heat and pollution off Toronto, Buffalo, Clevland, Toledo and Detroit. They are right around us in a semi-circle. It's a wee bit like the first settlers forming the wagons in a semi-circle to defend from Indian attach. I forgot Hamilton, and maybe a few in OH.

It's been well known for years, photos will slow any system down. One of the reasons I rarely respond to those folks known to be using photos in their posts. Kim does not allow adds on discussion pages, maybe it's time she put a stop to photos on discussion pages. She has provided a photo gallery, maybe more folks should use it. Get back to some good old articulate discussion by folks that know how to express themselves. We can always refer to a photo in the gallery, and those who wish to down load it, can. Why burdon everyone with the down loading of photos. Well, most everyone except me.

My biggest bone of contention is right with my server. My system is slow to connect late afternoon and early evening, sometimes I even get an indicator telling me all lines are all busy, try later. If I immediately click connect it will dialup and connect. The server has the gaul to tell me the problem is my old equipment or settings. Funny, this never happens at 4 am. I expect these hi-tech folks would try and tell an old farmer, having a radio on the tractor would cause the baler not to tie.

That saying, "see here now" was used by an oldtimer in my home town. He hired a guy by the name Bob to work on the farm. His daughter always got delegated to help Bob milk the cows. It is said the the old guy told Bob one day, See here now Bob, it's taking too long to milk those cows, just where are you using up the time". Well, Bob and the daughter went on to raise 4 children, so I guess the old guy got his answer.

Hosting pictures in the photogallery actually uses more of the servers bandwidth and is actually what slows it down. These photos are hosted directly by the forum server and not a 3rd party hosting site like photobucket