Cleanup of the friends list

Just housekeeping, really - I only cut the people who don't post much if at all, or who I haven't seemed to connect with. You're welcome to continue reading my public posts, such as they are. If you'd like to remain on my list and I cut you, drop me a line and I'll put you back on. No hard feelings are intended.

Writer's Block: Unlikely Benefactor

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I'll start by paying off some mortgages of family and a few close friends. Then I'll put a bunch away for my daughters, either for their educations or for them to buy a house or whatever. I'd probably do the same for my nephew and any other kids born by then to Piet's or my siblings.

The rest would be divided into three equal parts: one for something in my city, one for something in my country, and the third for overseas. For the first, I think I'd look at setting up a scholarship to McMaster University for underprivileged kids. For the second, I'd look for a school in a poor area - say, the Northwest Territories - and earmark that money for them to outfit their school with all the resources they need to run a really excellent elementary program. (In fact, if there's more than a hundred grand in that pool, I'd probably give fifty grand each to several schools. You can get an awful lot of good resources for fifty grand.) The third, out-of-country fund, would go to doing similar things in impoverished nations - probably in Africa.