Thank you !!
I received a lot of thank yous this past weekend .... which is great to hear.- don't get me wrong.  
But what gives me greatest joy is to see y'all show up and have a gooood time ... this is where it
gets underscored for me, that it
IS all worth it.    And it did appear that everyone was having a
good time
re-connecting and story telling and just hanging out.
(50 friday night    50  saturday morning    95 [75/20] saturday
night - not official)

For those that weren't there Saturday night,  I want to again thank Florence Nelson for stepping
up and being a MAJOR support - I couldn't have done it without her.

And Steve Colby, who did an outstanding job of rounding up golfers for Saturday's scramble.  Now
those folks had a good time.  The only complaint was that they just played 9 holes.

Gerry Hesse was instrumental in setting up the Saturday morning coffee at Geneva Grill.  It was
a perfect location - and the coffee & treats were a welcome after a late Friday night!

To those who are a constant source of support,  and you know who you are,  thank you.



                                                            
   Saturday night's unexpected gift of "mad money" ....  was just that,
unexpected.   I am taking the request to be frivolous with this gift,
quite seriously,  .... and will take great joy in keeping myself in designer
coffee while I start down the job search path.
  Simply and sincerely ....  thank you.



P.S.   And yes,  I do think it was done to suck me into doing this again in
2012 ....  and well,  it worked.   lol