Re: Supreme Court Ruling - precious little list-relevance...

["Bart Chambers" <bartonc@annap.infi.net>]

My good friend, Linus Toy, brings me to my knees in shame...

> I leave town for a few days, and you guys just ... i mean, we don't hear boo
> from Unka' Bart for weeks, then twice in a couple days--wow! 

Sooooo...

I wish to humbly and gratefully acknowledge my debt for the wonderful time shown
me by my good friends Eliot Lim, Linus (and his lovely wife Alita), John 
Eickerman, Anthony Chan, Pat Martin, Steve Powers, Orin and the New Guy (Sorry, 
I lost the slip of paper with the fine fellow's name...) while I was in Seattle 
in Mid-November and we got all the snow.  THANK YOU, I was overwhelmed by your 
kindness, as I am by my own shame at taking so long to say so!

Mid-freakin'-November, you all mutter in shock, ain't that guy got no *class* 
a-tol?  

(ahem...)  No, I'm afraid 'twould seem not...

But, these last few months have been, ummmmmm... busy ones for the avuncular 
one, and have involved several deaths of those close to him, and most recently, 
the sudden hospitalization of my mother who has been living with me since the 
death of my step-dad in early January.  I fear things will not improve until 
after mid-April, if then; so I'll be scarce for a while longer.

My friends, this is just the "stuff" of life.  It will pass.  Yer Kindly Ol' 
Unka Bart is reading the list daily, but not spending much time on line (or 
having much available for *contributing* - as if he ever contributed much 
anyway...

I *do* miss polluting you mail-boxes, and will resume whenever paroled, or 
whenever an opportunity to escape presents itself...