Last night I threw a mid summer New Year's Eve party, something I began doing a couple years ago. Had about 40 people here, lots of great food, fired up the 3000 and had everyone singing and dancing till well after midnight. Some might believe, and rightfully so, that this old guy has lost his sanity--hey, who else celebrates New Year's Eve in the middle of August? I still have a huge New Year's Eve party on December 31 as well, but this one makes up for the ones that were lost to freezing rain, snow and ice storms over the past decade. Yes, we did sing Auld Lang Syne, and some folks had enough Kickapoo Joy Juice onboard that they sang it in Scotish as well. It was a fun night.

I wish to personally thank Scott Yee for keeping a huge number of folks informed about the progrress of the Synthzone this past week, and Nigel, you've done an incredible job of keeping a great bunch of folks together for a long time.

Gary