Hi, Floyd Lichess,
To answer your question to me, which you posted on this thread (message #4), yes... I did receive a copy of the Convention program. Thank you very much! It was great to read the articles within it. Apologies for not doing my customary personal email to you and thanking you for it. For some reason (maybe, in part, a Bay of Fundy "vacation"?) personally and privately thanking you escaped me!
However, since you brought it up in this public forum (and now, that everyone sees that I am one of your "favorites"... 😉 so much so, that you generously and voluntarily sent me a Convention Program... (and I do not know if it was sent to every CCI member who did not attend the Convention). And if the program has not been sent to each and every CCI member (who did not attend the convention)... well, now, (in my imagination and fantasy world) everyone will be exceedingly jealous of me and hate me even more than they already do... BUT and HOWEVER, I will thank you even further... since I tend to have a masochistic and victim mentality.... (as well as, apparently, an overindulgence of words, paragraphs, and non-sensical sentences.... and I appreciate any attention I can get... positive or negative... but especially negative... (where are you, Mick of Candyworld? 😉 I kiss (whoops!) I mean miss your occasional sheepish comments here and there.... which reminds me that the Sheep lamenting thread has been going hungry, and might just need some feeding)...
And speaking of missing folks... (boy, talking about looseness of association and fluidness of consciousness...)
I miss the Alans of Great Britain... the one who has not posted in many many months (the one with the "D" after his first name) and the other Alan (F) cpe1991 who apparently recently left this group right here... yes... despite our past differences, variety of pictures and whatever... I already miss him, his input, his humor, his serious side, his research. and even his frequent "change of clothing" with respect to his Avatars!
As the John Donne saying goes, (a relative of your, Donbeth?) "Each man's death diminishes me, For I am involved in mankind" (even if the death or departure is figuratively on ebay...)
So, Floyd, to get back to the catalyst for this message, a simple "thank you" to you, Floyd, is in order!
So...
Thank you, Floyd! :-)
(Or is it that simple, and must I continue?....)
Well, all, you can just ignore all of my (perhaps perceived and judged) mumbo-jumbo above... or you can continue...
John. (PS: Hmmmm.... maybe almost time for a knightly lamenting... maybe not... "only the shadow knows...") PPS: Donbeth, now, even though I believe that your question has been answered, by now you may have seen some of the recent postings on the other threads... Are you SURE you want to be part of this crazy and fun-loving group? Too late! You're a member! Welcome to the funny farm! Sometimes serious; sometimes helpful; sometimes funny; sometimes tiresome; sometimes quiet and sometimes roaring; sometimes harmful; sometimes researched based; sometimes pleasant; sometimes mean and ridiculing; sometimes boring; sometimes zombie-like; sometimes "chit-chatty"; sometimes well controlled and sometimes not; sometimes too critical and sometimes not critical enough... all very difficult in a multi-cultural and multi socio-economic and multi (formal) educational level and multi-personality and backgrounds of chess collectors in this ebay chess collecting world. Hmmm.... seems just like life / are reflection of it... I do not envy the duties and responsibilities of this group's co-leaders and moderator... it is a difficult job to judge and make decisions... I also do not envy the positions of some contributors to these threads (the positions that they either place themselves in... or the positions in which they are placed...) Long live all of you! I love you all! 🙂
