Some truth to that, but sometimes you have six kids and only one or two who nap. Those nap times are when you give attention to older kids. I am a stay at home dad though and I will be the very first to admit that Mom's manage to give attention to multiple kids many times better than I do. But hey at least my kids are learning to take care of themselves 😛

I am 25 years out of practice and am not sure what the question is.

Raw asterisk then. I might have to look into that as well. My kids are getting old enough to have friends that want to contact them, but I'm not setting them free on a smart phone for a while. Can asterisk handle sms? I'd rather use something like signal it you could use it without a phone. Such a dumb requirement.

I look forward to the first true, post CPU/GPU chips. I'd take a decent performance hit to have something logically simpler that would just move bits with little to no latency. Imagine your 6808 but with 64bit registers and 128GB of memory and Cuda like extensions running at 4Ghz.

FreePBX exists. Though I can't remember how hard it is to set up.

Going to do something asterisk based?

Not as bad as fake ear hair though.

I have decided that midwit is too broad a classification that doesn't really capture the full stata of mid. I am now self-identifying as upper middle wit.

There is no, not being part of a group. The only way to do that is being a castaway surviving on fish and berries. Self-reliance is an illusion for people who somehow think that they built everything they have simply because they paid for it.

But by the rules of fruit, whosoever has more oranges has more vitamin c. Good luck with your scurvy.