I located St Vincents Hospital in Erie yesterday, and sent an e-card to Dan. Heard last night, after getting home from a gig, that it had reached him.

It's odd, isn't it? I'm a fairly rational kind of guy - don't believe in second sight or ghosts or mystical things, and I'm pretty grounded most of the time. But I'd been musing on the good people who rarely post or don't post at all on Mudcat these days, and my thoughts turned, among others, to Dan. He'd recently sent me a wrist watch as a present and simultaneously arranged for an old WW2 military chronograph to be mended by our Amish friend Mahlon.

Then, for no reason whatsoever, I opened this thread - which I've never looked at before - out of curiosity. Lo and behold - there was the recent news of Dan! I'm still pretty rational and grounded - but a big thanks to Coincidence, in all its shapes and forms, for getting the news to me!