Where is spiffnme?

Perhaps he's living large off the fat bonus check he received from the Wachowski brothers???

Or, maybe he's taking a road trip to Massachusetts to get married...

That would be cool. Of course, it's not quite possible yet...

I heard rumours of a holiday, actually . . . a short one, though - no worries!

Yeah, it's kind of scarey to log on and not see a post from him. He's such a big part of what's fun about this board.

Yeah, there have been like 3 "which sub?" posts out there, and not one "GET the VTF-2!!!!" from spiff =)

Maybe, he causing trouble over at the spot, again. God forbid!. . .or maybe he's on his way to Ontario to personally purchase me some GC's.

Gone on a 'oliday 'as 'e? Much deserved, I dare say!

I also noticed that JohnK has been mysteriously absent as well. Could it be...?

Not true. JohnK posted here today.

Haven't seen Zarak lately. Sushi must be on another business trip.

I'm still around some, but I've been phasing myself out. From March until August I read pretty much every post on here. Now I just read the subject headings and only pay attention to ones that look interesting. It got to be too much to keep up with. So, I'll still be around, just likely not as noticeable as in the past. Too much other stuff going on lately.

No, Mark; the bad guys didn't finally get me.

Good to see I'm missed.

I got back today. I did indeed take a holiday. Roger and I went to St. Croix!

Here's a picture of our "child" playing at the beach.

Nice!!!

Did you get any funny looks carrying your "child" around the beach?

Mr. Bear is quite shy and doesn't venture out with us. This beach was very secluded and only 10' from our hotel room. He ran back in very quickly.

he/she has no eyes!

He's like a sheep dog that way. If you push the fur out of his eyes he looks surprised!

The beach was that close to your room? Sounds heavenly! And not just because it's rained constantly for a week here (T.S. Eliot was wrong when he said "April is the cruelest month" . . . it's definitely November!). Was it sunny and beautiful?

We were sooooo lucky. It had been raining in St. Croix for two solid weeks just before we arrived. In fact, the day we arrived was the first day it had not been pouring. Streets were flooded, there were mudslides, washed out roads, the island was hit hard. They said parts of the island got over 30 inches of rain in four days!

The day we arrived it cleared up, and we had 5 days of nice weather! The roads were still quite a mess though!