Hooray! We made it! Thanks for the banner, Joe...and for the cake chrisg

(Joe is right on these things....he got the 1 millionth post a couple years ago. Now we are heading rapidly towards 2,000,000!.....)

but, I do think..*gasp*...that my title has been **EDITED** without asking my permission first! Perhaps this could be seen as an example of the Chief of the Current Mudcat Editorial Team imposing his will on a poor, defenseless memeber without.....*giggle*...permission, and could possibly...*grin* lead to *chuckle*...even more...*snerk*...abuses of our forum by.......*hee, hee, hee*...those who........*snort*..............ROTFL.....

...*wiping my eyes*....

What WOULD a birthday be without some topical humor?

but, seriously folks, I am privileged to have been here for this occasion, and in a couple of weeks, I'll reach the anniversary of my first post. With any luck, both I and Mudcat will still be around when it becomes 21.

    I have met personally a couple of hundred of you, and perhaps I will get to the UK and Europe and meet even more for music, gossip and ideas.

Thanks to everyone for helping make this place a great experience.....and thanks to Max, Joe, Jeff, Dick G., Susan of DT,...and all the others who keep the ol' wheels greased.