Nice to hear from you again Jerry. Hope life is good for you, and that your friendship with the other mudcatters is re-kindled real soon. Congratulations on writing a book. Its a real achievement - a footprint in the sands of time!

I'm not all that good at re-kindling friendships. Once or twice = people have forgotten who I was altogether.

I think I must have been quite unpleasant at one juncture at least - as those who did know me, don't seem to want to know. Really if you haven't kept at least Christmas card type contact - I think its a bit useless.

Once, another guy who I made contact with had gone very strange - and started shouting very loudly about Frank Zappa in the middle of the night - he woke my wife up in the next room, and she felt very nervous about further contact.