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I decided that our reaction score weights were too stingy and unbalanced, so I've changed them. Since our migration to Xenforo in August 2021, Like, Love, and HaHa always carried 1 point; and Wow, Sad and Angry carried 0 points. Effective right now, I've changed the weights so that Love and Haha carry 3 points each, Like carries 2 points, Wow carries 1 point, and Sad and Angry carry 0 points. I don't believe in having reactions that carry negative points, and for that reason I've not even...

It was 20 years ago, on January 1, 1999, that Kathleen and I drove away from our home in North Vancouver and headed north to Inuvik, NWT, from where, on January 31 we flew in to "our" one-room cabin at the north end of Colville Lake (note giant arrow). We were all alone, 40 km (25 miles) from the nearest community, 350 km (215 miles)from the nearest road, nearly 100 km (60 miles) north of the Arctic Circle. No running water. No electricity. A grand adventure shared with wintering caribou...

Breakup! Fort Reliance, Yukon River, 2006 In 1993, Kathleen and I sold our suburban home in North Vancouver and moved to a one-acre, ocean-side retreat on Pender Island, approximately halfway between Vancouver and Victoria. Here we intended to live a rural life-style, with days devoted to ocean paddling, walks on forest trails to coffee shops, gardening and ‘doing as we pleased.’ At first Kathleen and I were very happy. We both believed that we would never leave Pender Island, a place...