I found a link to kiltmen.com from Bear's links page. I found a link to this through kiltmen's forum's links. It actually helped me find out what was up with Bear since he seemed to have disappeared off the earth for a bit.

I've emailed a couple of fellow Canadian members in the past few days, and I'm delighted to see that their responses to me personally were as pleasant as their posts here. It's nice to see a community that gets along as well as this does. It always baffled me that others who have something in common (not necessarily kilts) were always putting the badmouth on each other and were particularly nasty to newcomers like myself.

I think I'll enjoy the stay!