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Fort Collins, deux

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G'day all! Wednesday in Fort Collins. What a fun day, once I worked out how to call someone (little tip for self in future - take the area code off the front. Works much better that way!). So eventually I figured out how to contact Kristi and she took me off on a yarn crawl. It was at this point that I decided that I would be quite able to handle the people in Fort Collins - remember I am a bit shy, honest! - and make a new life there. I had already met Nathan's new boss and his wife and kids, and we got along just fine. One thing I found was that the people I met were such positive people. We keep getting caught in the mire of worrying about the mortgage and worrying about the climate and worrying about our plants dying and worrying about Nathan's thesis. It doesn't make for a healthy atmosphere. Another thing - they understood my accent and I theirs. This was a bit of a difference to nearly 10 years ago when I went to Wisconsin and most of the people there loo...