I hadn’t noticed your signup date....welcome to FreeRepublic. There are some insecure people on these boards like cva who are distracted by such trivialities - pay them no never-mind.
Well, I thank you for the welcome, I’ve run into many curmudgeons like him in my life, not the sharpest knives in the drawer.
THe reason for looking up sign up dates is a “non-sequitur”.