Uhm, hello, ...

[neveronfriday]

I have kept every single mail I have received since 1989 (Usenet, anyone?).

I have a program that just regularly empties my mail and mail archives into one huge database dump and ... well ... keeps it.

I haven't been online much these past 12 months, but going through said database dump, I received 102 mails (plus ensuing correspondence) from people on this board throughout those months, inquiring how things were, remembering stuff I was looking for and offering it to me, sending me perverted jokes and lurid photos ... stuff like that.

I'm really embarrassed that I didn't react to more than a handfull and wanted to let all of you know how much I appreciated every single one of your mails, even if I didn't reply.

If you have cancer, which I had several times, you just automatically have to find a different center for yourself, and I did.

My new center did and does NOT include online forums like Organissimo and S.H.

I also reduced all my online-activities to virtually nothing.

I beat the cancer, but it's a truce that, instinctively, I don't trust.

One I shouldn't trust.

That shit pops up whenever you least expect it and just bites you in the ass so severely that you shake your fist at the powers that be and hope that your "f*ck you" doesn't get you automatically dismissed at the pearly gates when the time comes.

I'm fine.

Thanks guys (and the one? two?) gals around here.

Many of the old-timers remember couw, a great guy, and I just followed suit and demolished 90% of my hardware and just left the Internet.

To be quite honest, I intend to keep it that way.

But I thought I should leave a line of thanks here (see above).

I'm still a regular reader (as admins can confirm by checking my log-in data) and I have bought ... shame on you bastards ... a TON of stuff these past 12 months directly or indirectly related to posts on the one and only forum that, in my opinion, has the most knowledgeable and discerning people on it. Yes, I have fought with some of you, and I have blown my top time and again (did you know that experts actually link psychopathic and sociopathic behavior to thyroid problems, which I have had for 6 to 8 years?), but I always return to get your opinion on recent reissues, boxed sets, weird LP covers and whatnot.

I'll be around.

Thanks, guys.

P.S.: I have/had this old site called livingwithmusic.com. It had the Mosaic discographies on it. That site is dead (but still has what I posted on there). Whenever I had the time, I moved all of that over to another site, deus62.com (where it all started 20 years ago) ... but it's not live yet. At the end of the year (and I'll post here again), it will be. Wait for it. It's got ... more.

BTW: I haven't posted sh*t over on lwm for 12 months and more (besides updating the Jazz in Paris section) but it still gets 180 unique visitors per day on the Mosaic discographies page and about 200 unique on many other pages, even though because of not posting, Google is pushing my former front-page ass to pages 8, 10 and 28. That just sure as hell proves proves that music fans dig deeper.

Cheers, guys. Have one on me, the missus ... or ... whatever.

Edited November 9, 2012 by neveronfriday

[brownie]

Never... always glad to hear from you and learn you are in good shape.

Often think about you. Ring in whenever you feel like it.

All the best!

[Chuck Nessa]

Thanks for the report.

[Noj]

Glad to read you're healthy, NOF.

[David Ayers]

Good to hear from you.

[Jim Alfredson]

Yay! Been worried about you, Volkher. Glad you're doing better.

[neveronfriday]

Never... always glad to hear from you and learn you are in good shape.

Often think about you. Ring in whenever you feel like it.

All the best!

Shall do, Guy. Paris and/or France (once again) is at the very top of my list.

Thanks for the report.

Chuck, thanks for many of your releases. I continue to enjoy them time and again!

Glad to read you're healthy, NOF.

Thanks, Noj. Long time, no hear.

Good to hear from you.

Thanks, David.

Yay! Been worried about you, Volkher. Glad you're doing better.

Thanks, Jim, always a pleasure to check in here. You've got one helluva board here.

Edited November 9, 2012 by neveronfriday

[mikeweil]

Good to hear from you, Volkher ... if you want to get rid of the responsibility for the Mosaic discos, send them to me - I will open my website early next year for discographies, among other things, and could put them up there ...

Edited November 10, 2012 by mikeweil

[neveronfriday]

Good to hear from you, Volkher ... if you want to get rid of the responsibility for the Mosaic discos, send them to me - I will open my website early next year for discographies, among other things, and could put them up there ...

See my reply elsewhere just a few minutes ago.

[jazzbo]

I know quite a lot about cancer, enough to know how much you've gone through. Hope you have gone through all you ever will. Thanks for letting us know you're well right now and making an appearance. Don't stay away forever.

[Quincy]

I wondered what happened to that once prolific deus person of the internet. Happy to hear you're better now. All the best.