I hardly know what to say. Geez Russ, I think I need to hire you to be my promotions guy. Yikes. Thanks for all the kind words.

I know there are a few here who have met Russ, and I already knew what kind of character he had when he decided to do that project asking some of us to recommend nonprofits/charities that he might donate to. But what a terrific person with a great personality! He started guiding me around like he'd been doing it for years. (I had my cane with me the first night, as I usually do when I first meet people, just in case things were awkward or he ran me into stuff just being careless or unused to it. Didn't bring it with me the next day at Namm, because I figured I'd probably set it down in some booth and forget about it, plus I was completely comfortable with him guiding me around.)

Dinner was great, although I'm still pretty sure I must have eaten about 80% of the calamari myself. Lol, it was good. Russ is very easy to talk to. There wasn't a single moment where there was one of those moments where nobody could think of something to say.

Thanks Russ for letting me and my friends use your badges. I wish you could have stayed longer. I hope it isn't too long before I see you again.

Rory