All,
I have made several attempts to contact Dave. His last post on Quoteland went like this:

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In Australia, you can…volunteer to provide medical assistance. Other countries probably have similar schemes. I just signed myself up. My daughter says I can borrow her snorkel. Don't know where (or if) I'm going yet (I'll hear in the next few hours), but Thailand or Sumatra/Aceh seem most likely.
~ Dave, 12-30-2004

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If anyone has had any contact with Dave, please let me know. I have to believe that he is okay, but I cannot help but be a little bit concerned.



[This message was edited by thenostromo on 07-06-05 at 10:54 AM.]

The suspense is pending!

The last time I had a contact with Dav was 15th of June. I don't think he end up going anywhere for that tsunami volunteering - but he was prepare to go. I think he is busy writting an essay about mountain climbing and falling on his ass at the moment (that's what he said).

He told me that he is coming to Thailand next year. He also gave me an advice:

"make sure you don't wear a necktie every single day - those things are the gas-chamber of the free spirit!".

Crazy guy! The last I heard, he was going to teach his kids to abseil!


"Nunc Scio Quit Sit Amor"
But always remember - it's still not a premarital sex
if you don't plan on getting married

"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." - Mark Twain

I've been... otherwise occupied... for some time and have neglected my forumnal duties somewhat (like I haven't logged in for months - Boo lazy Dav!), but I'm alive and well.

All I got from that tsunami volunteering stuff was a barrage of dinner-time phone-requests for money. I donated plenty of damned money and was much more interested in assisting in a practical way, but it pissed me off (to put it mildly) - I have the feeling that many "charities" are, if they still exist at all, rapidly becoming overwhelmed and side-lined by their own money-making mechanisms.

Anyway, enough of my whining. As KO said, I'm putting the finishing touches on a little snow-trudging adventure (I wouldn't call it "climbing", exactly. More like "bumbling alone blindly for many miles in a week-long sub-zero whiteout moonscape while gnawing frozen kangaroo jerky, gibbering to myself, chipping crusts of ice-urine from my rucksack and humming Barry White music incessantly").

So, what have I been doing with myself? Hmmm - I've been working, and when I've not been working I have been sleeping, reading or camping with my friends and family.

I wanted to get away from a lot of noise and distracting stuff and the Computer and TeeVee were the prime offenders, so they are now only used for really necessary stuff. It's amazing how much time you can find if you don't stare at a fluorescing glass box all day.

It's winter here and there's snow on the mountains. I've started building a sixteen foot canoe, using only traditional hand tools (except the chopping down the tree and milling the lumber - I hate splinters...). I'm enjoying the hillbilly lifestyle. Heck, I might even buy me a banjo.

Sorry I missed your e-mails TN. Every so often, I look at the computer and think of all its wonders, and I think about climbing back inside it and talking with all the wonderful people who live there (you all ranking high among them), but then it starts to look like this huge, static-buzzing, dead eye, staring back at me.

So, I go and poke a soccer ball around with my son instead (he's getting good - for a six year old - but I can still kick has bony ass!), read under a window in the winter sunshine, or block-plane a fair strake or two while humming a Barry White tune, incessantly.

Peace, all...

Davdoodles
XXX

Dav...I've missed ya! Thanks for the update. I was a little worried after reading this thread last night. Looks like all is well with you and yours-that's wonderful.

BEWARE: Soccer can be dangerous, especially when playing one-on-one with one's son. (5 years ago I broke my leg doing the same.)


~Take care, You.

Me

Gus McCrae: You know how it works Jake, you ride with an outlaw, you die with an outlaw. I'm sorry you crossed the line.

Jake Spoon: I didn't see no line Gus. I was just trying to get through the territory without getting scalped, that's all. Lonesome Dove (1989)

Thanks for checking in, Dave. Much appreciated. Mystery solved. Best wishes for success and happiness as you travel through life. Thank you for all of your service to Quoteland.

Had wondered about you, glad to know you're ok and wish you the best.

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but then it starts to look like this huge, static-buzzing, dead eye, staring back at me.

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*shakes hands* Half the times I'm needing it crazily, the other half I'm better off without it!

Had wondered about you, glad to know you're ok and wish you the best.

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but then it starts to look like this huge, static-buzzing, dead eye, staring back at me.

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*shakes hands* Half the times I'm needing it crazily, the other half I'm better off without it!

"This above all; to thine own self be true." - Shakespeare