As I know that I already have your approval, despite my shortcomings, I
still want to remind those who aren't aware that to be in C's good
graces is a great thing, both in the short and long run.  Any man who
doesn't want to be a road dog with a witty, vivacious, highly
intelligent, and sometimes cruel young lady who happens to own a Ferrari
*and* race cars for a ...living... would have to be one of the dumbest
sods on the field.

UNFORTUNATELY, after figuratively prostrating myself before the happy
couple for forgiveness and to keep my friendship card, I must sadly
report to all that I will not be able to attend the September
festivities.  Due to many circumstances, most painfully a final
reckoning with the law on all of my various outstanding criminalities so
that I could again get a California driver's license (and subsequently
an Arizona license), I had to postpone my move exactly one month - which
puts my moving date the exact same weekend as the aforementioned duo's
nuptials.  I am deeply saddened and even a little embarrassed about
this, because almost more than anything else in my pitiful life I wanted
to meet the man whom I've come to know as a close friend without ever
having met him in person (how many people can say that?).  And of
course, the opportunity to meet many of you clowns in person as well
(aforementioned "C" excluded from the clown category, of course) would
have been a highlight of my 42 years.

So, as it is, I will be saving up for a monumental trip to England
sometime in the (hopefully) near future, and as for the rest of you,
maybe I'll have to do it one by one.  But I will do it, because I count
all of you as friends and certainly consider you wonderful people who
have given me countless hours of laughter and interesting repartee in a
life that is sometimes devoid of both for weeks on end otherwise.

Once I hit Arizona, my door and my guest room will be open to all
comers.  Remember, in the part of Arizona I'm moving to there are
HUNDREDS of miles of open, smooth asphalt just begging to have hot
rubber burned all over them.  And Sedona is close by, too.

Here's to many more years of frivolity, happiness, edginess, cruelty,
insults, and near-virtual-fisticuffs on AAF!!

MC