I finally got a GMail account thanks to Suw. It's skadz1@gmail.com.
So, far, I dig it. Seems to do a lot of things right. My biggest problem has been that there is a 6 character minimum on login names, so I couldn't be skadz. I've already gotten 12 invites to give out and all have gone out with a queue of friends still waiting for the next batch. Seems like I got a fresh 6 this morning after getting rid of my original 6 yesterday afternoon. I hope this means I will have another 6 tomorrow.
Still have to play with it some more, before I really give it a final thought on how much I like it, but so far so good.