Positively fantastic stuff. For whatever else I may be, I am honored, humbled, and overjoyed to be a part of this place......Don't stop now guys, I'm sure others are reading this and enjoying it as much as I. Thank you...

And Rick, maudlin's OK my friend, at least you stayed with what you loved and are respected, at least by me, for the doing. I don't have any regrets for my life, but there were so many other ways I could have gone during my "missing twenty years." (That "Number Nine Coal" thread put me in a serious funk)........But I'm grateful and happy to be wherever it is I'm at now.....and I'm lucky to have stumbled in here to the 'Cat to hear the tales of those heroes from the mouths of others that are now friends. No wisecracks here, just gratitude.

Spaw