Who is Missing in Action?

[Toots]

I'm sitting here on a Friday night bored to death, Douger is in bed already watching one of those bang bang shoot em up guy movies, the teenagers are off playing PS2, the cat is on top of the computer and the dogs are asleep at my feet. And it's only 9:15. Some WWA I've turned out to be! Anyway, I got to thinking about the past couple of years (almost) and all of the people who have came and went here at livedaily. There are quite a few of us still here, but I think there are an equal number of people who have all but disappeared. So my question is, who would you like to see come back home to our little corner of the Bruce world? Here's a few of my picks...and if I forget anybody I apologize in advance.

Patter - Sparkle Ass the Glitter Girl
Flap - My darling bro
alleylady - Queen of the old lake
Gizzy - party planner extraordinaire
Obsessed - shy quiet and unassuming..LOL
Since 78 - the golfer
Onefan (Mare)- baseball chick from Iowa
Growing Young - dancing queen
1crazylady - moderator of all moderators
LONESTAR GIRL - that wild and wooly baby sis
Nebraska Fan - the farmboy who falls off ladders
Pova - everyone's favorite lawyer
Sherry Darlin' - my dear twin sister

Okay your turn now...I know there are lots of others....Will they come back out of the woodwork when Bruce goes on tour again? Or will they be lost forever?

Toots

[LJK]

I'm still trying to figure out where the heck Dari went off to!

[patter]

Hey Twinkle - I'M STILL HERE - STARTING TO LURK ABIT MORE AND POST A WEENIE BIT AGAIN!!!!! But No one remembers me but you.......

Glad to see you remember our phone conversation last week...... I miss them all too, GROWING YOUNG, Our Dancing Queen....where are you????? My sweet bro Flap (& Clicker too)????? and that smelly stinker LSG, my baby sis?????? and where is Glitter Globes????? and Bullets?????? 1 Crazy Lady??????? Sherry???? Pova???? Obsessed & Since 78????? Lawyer Lori???????? Candy????? Mandi????? and OH MY GOD.....QUEEN OF THE COLORED LIQUIDS...MY SIS - PJ?????? AND STRETCH???????? and my twinnie (who knows I Love her)........

Come out, come out, WHEREVER YOU ARE!!!!!!!

Sparkle Ass

PLEASE NOTE AND BE AWARE THAT THE ABOVE USER WAS ARRESTED FOR OVERUSE OF THE ???????? SYMBOL.

[Edited by patter on July 21st, 2001 at 02:54 AM]

[imabrucefan]

And whatever happened to that cute Hideous Duck?

[orthy]

GoCart..??

[Douger]

:D I am still here too. Even though I didn't post much and i pretend to be more of a voyeur. Alas, toots only brings me out of the closet when she wants to abuse er...play with me! Take care and keep smiling, douger.

[CWGOURMET]

Hey Toots,
I have an update on LoneStar Girl...
She's still alive & well..she's in
love with the guitarist from
Mike Wurtele's band and their a
great couple!! The Judge & I saw
Mike Wurtele & guys play in NYC
on 7/6 at Hard Rock Cafe...so the
Judge calls LoneStar on cell phone,
then we let her & the boyfriend talk!
It's such a great feeling to help
out friends in love!
CW

[Toots]

CW,

Thanks for the update. :) I still talk to Lonestar Girl via email, but I was missing her here on the boards.

And where are the original Bovine Bruce fans Lucky and Rosie? This place just ain't the same without them.

Toots

[doctort]

hey Toots! robinia here (using doc's password). It's ok to have a quiet Friday night at home, Wild Women need to rest once in awhile! Besides, being a Wild Women isn't necessarily about what you do, it's about who you are. (Hummer help me out here!).

Anyway, I did connect with growing Young last February in Mpls when we took our kids to see BSB. She was alive and well then.

I miss ice22. Remember him? He posted alot last October, November and then seemed to fall off the face of the earth. And what about Tony from the UK? And pickles? Definitely miss LsG. I hope it's true she's found love and happiness!

I hope those who are no longer actively posting are still lurking so they know how much they are missed!

Oh, and where the heck is Andrew D. Wicks these days? He's been awfully quiet!

I need to get back to doc's party. A couple of beers and I can hardly type!

Good thread Toots!

robinia

[CWGOURMET]

Robinia,
I'm sure Andrew is getting prepared
to throw me & Doc out of a car
somewhere in DC for Labor Day
weekend!!! There is an art to kicking
people out of your car whilst driving
70 mph, so I'm sure he's out
practicing now!!
CW

[The Music Traveler]

I miss Taconite. :(
I spent almost all of my MSG shows with him. There's no one better to wait in line with (for days on end!)

He met a girl and.....

[CWGOURMET]

Hey Music Traveler,
I know I miss Taconite too!!
He was my drop line buddy on
6/30 for 10 hours!!
What a nice guy! So he met a girl?
Well that's a good excuse for being
away from the board...that's the
only excuse I would except from
DoctorT if he ever left the board!
CW

[growingYoung]

Hi everyone!! So nice to be remembered Toots!

Patter!! You sweetie! Remember our late night phone call from my hotel bathtub?! Wait, that sounds funny. I was in my hotel bathroom and Patter was in her home (I don't know if she was in her bathroom or not). I was trying to be quiet for my hotel roommates.... anyway, it was just too cool to finally talk in person that night. And awesome to meet you and Toots and everyone else the next day for the Anaheim preshow bash!

Robinia, you take care of yourself over there with Doc!

Toots, I'm still around, peeking into the site when I can. I really miss those old Lake days. Does anyone hang there anymore?

I haven't been doing too much dancing lately... last time was in France when I caught the LINY special on my hotel TV! But I thought of all of you here and knew you'd understand how cool it was to see that.

I just got the Backstreets Until The End CDs (thanks Deena!) and it is so cool to hear that song through out the years.

We are overrun with kids this weekend; we've got our three plus my brother's four kids! Had a great day at a nearby pool - the only place to be when it's 90+ degrees and 70+ humidity!

Miss you all!!!! I'm hoping to make the next BAT (3, right?) if it happens. I just gotta party with my sisters again!!!

Love ya!
-GY

[patter]

GY - Marquerite!!!!!! OH MY GOD - you are alive and well, thank God! Toots and I talk about you all the time and I've tried to E-mail you a few times but it always comes back to me as a dead end. Can you Private Message me your E-mail.....pretty please!

And yes, I very well remember that night I picked up my phone and hear you say "I'm finally in LA but I have to talk softly cause my roommates are sleeping so I'm sitting in the hotel bathroom in the empty bathtub with my laptop" What a HOOT!!! And we had so much fun that night and the next day at the pre-show and the concert.....Besides being in the 5th row right smack in front of Bruce and the band - Toots and I (the "Glitter Girls"} will ALWAYS REMEMBER watching you behind the stage dancing your a-s-s off - I just wish we could all get together again soon!!!!!

Love ya, take care Marguerite and KEEP IN TOUCH!!!!! (My E-mail address and Toots' are still the same as always!!) PM ME!!!!!!

Sparkle Butt patter

[piwi]

DoctorT / Robinia: Ice22 is still alive. We're mailing from time to time. I don't know why he isn't posting here anymore. I met him in Milwaukee and we were at the Indy show, too. But it was all in 99 - we're getting older, now it looks like it was last year ;) Luckily my Bruce buddy double click is again on the board from time to time, so I have someone who was at those shows with me :)

[Edited by piwi on July 22nd, 2001 at 12:53 PM]

[Muddyemms]

What about Emilio/Inglewood Way? Anybody heard from him?

As for Tony from Cambridge UK, I think that scootbigman has emailed him from time to time.

And, . . . Hdbulletts . . . where did she go?

[since 78]

First time I have looked here in ages. Hate having my picture on a milk carton. Our pro quit in April so I am wearing many hats of which only a few fit. Have finally taught Obs to use the burner so that could be bad. I will lurk and post more often as summer fades.

78

[Toots]

Hey Golfer Boy,

That doesn't excuse your lovely wifey. Where has she been?

Toots

[growingYoung]

Patter, PM to you didn't work. I'm sending email.

Yes, I miss obsessed and mare too! Hey Since78!! Nice to see you again!

We really need a reunion at the Lake sometime, dontcha think?

-GY

[murphy]

Naughty Sherry is missed:mad:

Murph;);):rolleyes:

see ya in the lounge

[Bustedsister]

yeah, and what about lightningshack ? and back2theisland ?

[Island Fan]

Naughty Sherry....
Gone yes...but not forgotten...

[dudley]

we agree with ljk
where's dari?
we've been busy
with relatives in town
for about 10 days -
but while trying to
catch up with news
we noticed - no dari?

hope she is okay &
taking a good break -
anybody know?

[piwi]

Yes, Dari, we're missing you!

Bustedsister: do you remember down in the basement of the MSG where suddenly someone said "Hi Piwi" - that was Back2theisland - couldn't believe that. What a strange meeting.

[LesterX]

I heard from Dari yesterday; she's fine. I'm sure she'll resurface soon -- probably just busy with work.

[Toots]

I heard from Dari yesterday also. And Lester my dear, where have you been? Hmmmm? We miss you too ya know!

Toots :)

[Sherry Darlin]

I spoke with Dari a few days ago, she's incredibly busy with work but she's fine.

Glad to hear you're all doing fine, I've been thinking about everyone alot but have been busy with my family now that I'm a stay at home mom. Miss all of you!

[Toots]

Say hey whadda ya say Sherry Darlin'?

My dear long lost twin sister....you mean to tell me you are a stay at home Mom now and you don't have time to post? Tsk Tsk Tsk.....Don't those cute kids of yours nap or anything? LOL Glad to hear from you at any rate! Don't be such a stranger, we are bored bored bored with no tour and welcome the company. At the very least we can start talking about Bruce's butt again!

Toots :D

[stk]

We should try to have a Board reunion here on the board. Try to select a day in the future and those of us who know the addy's or phone numbers of the MIA's can contact them and ask them to join a reunion thread. It'll be just like old times! Of course, all the newbies can join in too. Might be fun.

[piwi]

Perhaps a date for swimming in the lake, too???

[growingYoung]

Yes, yes, swimming at the Lake!! :D

Maybe Thursday evening/ night/ whatever-it-is-in-your-timezone?

Or here on the board... can we bring floaties??

-GY

[Sherry Darlin]

Bruce's Butt!!!!!! Did someone just mention that or was it a dream I had last night? Either way I think it's most definitely worth discussing, don't you?

Love you, too, Tootsie!!!!!

[iowamare]

toooooooooooooooooots,
thank you so much for conjuring me. obs alerted me to check the boards. miss you guys!!!!! flapper, gy, patter,dari, its been ages. i'm alive and well here in the world of nuttin but corn. have moved, new life, one less spouse. it's a good thing. been following little feat tour this summer for lack of bruce. could swim one night on friend's computer, name the time. had to log in with new name since i forgot my damn password after all this time!!!!

[Toots]

OHMYGAWD! And they say Ouija boards don't work at conjuring up the lost spirits! MARE! It's lovely to see you again. I spoke to the long lost Gizzy today via IM and she filled me in a little on your escapades and said you might show up around these parts. Now if we could only get her to post! I guess I should have posted the "missing in action" thread a while ago. Patter and I were talking the other day and she asked about you also. We really need to have a lake reunion soon. It will have to be at the "old" greasylake where we used to go to, greasylake.org has their chat set up so you have to register, and I think some of our antics might curl the regulars hair..LOL I don't have the link to it since my aol crashed, could someone post it? It was the greasylake.com address with springsteen thrown in there in the middle somewhere. PHILLY I know you have it!

And to all of you lost souls who have posted..

WELCOME BACK!

Toots

[Dirty Annie]

http://www.greasylake.springsteen.com/main-tc.htm

[obsessed]

Wow...wow...wow..this almost made me cry, toots! ..remembering the OLD lake...."chummin" with everyone! ...alley watching over us, gee typing a link every now and then, bulletts in the hayloft, Mr P and 78 having trivia contests, backwards flap (palf), txfan and his stories, patter and toots fighting over drakes cakes or something or other, sweet philly and GY, eddie drinkin beer, corn girl, gizzy coming and going, our "theme" nights....saying any stupid thing we want as long as it ended in a Bruce song...lol....laughing like idiots! ....ahhhh the good ole days! :)Can't wait for the reunion....Thursdays sound good! A tour must be coming...I can feel it!! :)

[Gizzy]

Obsie, baby!
I can feel it too!
I believe!

Mare alerted me to your thread, Tootsie Pop.
Haven't been here in donkey's years. (Don't ask. My ex mother-in-law used to say that.)
Alive and well, just buried in the chaos of the real world.

You are all part of a high time of my life full of high memories.
I grew young again around the Bruce aura we collectively shone.
You all got my blood flowing...
...and my face hurting from all the laughs.
Thanks for calling roll, Toots.

I was in my thirties when this all started. Just turned 41 a few weeks back.
A new decade.
Still in denial.

Sigh.

I need the fix.
Let's do it all again sometime.
K, Bruce?

[stk]

Yeah, but Giz, we all know you don't look a day over 29!

[Gizzy]

wow.
Thanks, Shawn. You lie, but thanks.
You can say that, though, cuz we don't know what age you're hiding under that beret.

[flap]

HEY HEY HEY It's time for a .....

I had a dream our love would last forever
I had a dream tonight my dream comes true
And if you'll hold me tight
We'll be riders, girl, on the night
Ooh, I want a rendezvous

Haven't I told you, girl, how much I like you
I got a feeling that you like me too
Well if you hold me tight
We'll be riders, girl, on the night
Ooh, I want a rendevzous

You deserve so much more than this, girl
Well, I'm riding on the power and livin' on the promise in your last kiss
Because I had a dream our love would last forever
I had a dream tonight my dream comes true
And if you'll hold me tight
We'll be riders, girl, on the night
Ooh, Ooh, rendezvous
I want a rendezvous
I want a rendezvous

[Toots]

FLAPSTER MY LOVE! I knew you would come back and sing us a song! And you always know which one to sing don't you? Looks like a lot of the old gang is here, a reunion at the lake sounds fabulous, and Thursday will work for me. What time works for everyone? Is 7:00 pacific time okay? Any and all are welcome, so just click on the link above that Dirty Annie posted, bring your floaties, colored liquids, bathing suits are optional and don't forget your sense of humor. Now I don't want to be swimming all alone so someone better show up! Post here if you can make it. :)

Toots

[Gizzy]

Have big important boy scout meeting tomorrow night.
Boy receiving many awards and pinning mom.

Do a backstroke for me.
Have fun, guys.

[stk]

It's a dude hat.

[iowamare]

wow! how fun to see the old gang.....where's philly? my bruce paper doll is on my desk in his boxers. i can't swim tonight since i will have my daughter and we are going to the state baseball tourney where our local team is playing---yessir, toots. next thursday i will be at a sonia dada concert--anyone out there know their music?
keep this thread going, let's see how many people we can get to emerge from their cocoons. flappy---thanks for the song!!!!!!!

love you all
mareish

[Toots]

All righty then....you people have lives I see. ;) How about posting when a good night is for you and then we'll see what the majority is. No reason why those of us who can make it tonight can't show up though. I'll pop into the lake and see if anyone shows.

Toots

[piwi]

Hey - I need some Bruce talk after such a long time without a tour... Hopefully I'll hear my alarm clock at 4 am (7pm pacific time) ;)

For me meeting On a Friday or Saturday would be the best because of the time difference and work..

[nicnmic711]

HI EVERYBODY.I'LL SEE YA ALL AT THE LAKE TONIGHT

[obsessed]

I'll be there ..... wow...Flpa! good song :)

[growingYoung]

palf! perfect song!! :D

see ya tonight, whoever can make it!!

-GY

[LJK]

WAIT--there's a Bruce paper doll????

[firerich7]

Please define "pinning Mom"...

[Toots]

"Pinning Mom" Well Rich, with Gizzy you just never know what it might mean. Maybe it's a new type of WWF wrestling..."Gizzy pinned by son in the WWF Championship match"....Or maybe She is a bit of a masochist and likes to get jabbed with pins. Your guess is as good as mine.

Toots

P.S. It was great fun with everyone in the lake last night. :) When's the next one?

[Gizzy]

Well, I'd normally not be able to resist such a straight line set up,
but much too potentially incestuous to go there...

When Boy Scouts are awarded special honors,
the mother (who usually remains at a
young-male-advancing-through-pre-pubescence-subject-to-embarrassment-by-mom-presence-respecting distance)
attends the awards ceremony, during which the scout pins a corresponding
pin on his mother's lapel. The proud mother then tastefully displays her
amassing pins at any and all scouting activities she might dare to attend.

Does that answer the pinning query, flameboy? :-)
Not that I couldn't take him in a fair fight...

http://images.prosperpoint.com/images/2229/112470-1.jpg

[Toots]

Rumor has it that Gizzy enjoyed being pinned by ALL of these boy scouts up in the high sierras on a moonlit summer night....

Toots

[Gizzy]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL!

Good one, Popper.

[dari]

so i haven't looked at this place in 3 weeks and i come back to stories of the gizzer being pinned by boy scouts? and i thought the elevator story was never to be topped. silly me....


dari

[obsessed]

LOLOLOLOL!

[obsessed]

Oh yeah LJK, there is a paperdoll...I had mine laminated so I could play with him more often...:)

[LJK]

Like a retail paper doll, or did some crazed fan make them?

[dari]

and i missed mare..

come back mare. how the hell are you??????


dari

[ForYou]

LJK-If you want to undress Bruce go here

http://candysroom.freeservers.com/bruceweb87.html

[LJK]

Typical guy, he keeps his socks on!

[Ice22]

Hey all. Toots... Thanks for starting this thread. Robinia... Thanks for remembering me. Piwi... thanks for letting me know about the thread. Anyway, I will not bore you with the mundane details of my life since I last posted, but I'm still traveling alot for my job, currently in Minneapolis. I also moved to SC and bought my first house. I'm glad that many of you are still posting and doing well. I heard something about Santa Monica in Feb?

[double-click]

Hey ICE22,

Great to hear from you! I'll let Dari explain what happened in Santa Monica back in Feb. Sorry I couldn't make it there. Piwi probably gave you some of the details already. And Ice, you'll never bore us about anything. So don't be afraid to check in and post something once in a while. Good to hear from you!

[Phillyfan1]

Wow ! I go away for a week and look who comes out of the wood-work ! Flapper , 78 , Obs, Mare, and hey Gizzy (BW)
Great to see you all ...so did I miss the reunion?..When is the next one??

"Put on your best dress baby, and darlin fix your hair up right......"""

[TxFan]

I take great issue with the reference to 78 as 'the golfer.' I realize a golfer can take on many different forms.

78 a golfer? Who has ever actually seen the man golf?

Best I can tell. He hits into a blue screen and calls it a birdie !

One day we shall see for real !

[dari]

since posting their names seems to be the key to people crawling out of the woodwork, i will post a few more that i am thinking about and missing ......

GOCART GOCART GOCART GOCART GOCART GOCART (did it work?)
bulletts (darcie where are you? my first email friend)
pova
stretch
alleylady
miss p
fl hockeymom
sara
ellen
man at the top
gigi
gossamer
lee la
smitty fla
sms
helga
weak knees
bjg
bgorm
cover me
gloria's eyes
srfmom
rich horn
rich ny

and so many more..


dari

p.s. hey txfan and ice 22
good to see you both again.

[Dirty Annie]

Good God,Dari you have a good memory!!! Those were the names that I stumbled across way back when. Oh, and Queenie who urged me to go to Penn State and not give up hope I'd get a ticket.

[Toots]

And how about Gonzo, Mr Gilky and Aramuse?

Tx...I stand corrected on 78 and that golfer thing. Of course maybe I was only talking about miniature golf. :D

I missed Dari and she was only gone for 3 weeks.

Toots

[obsessed]

Oh boy....wait 'til he reads that Toots! LOL....actually his game is improving...he can usually get it through the castle in two shots now...the clown's mouth still gives him trouble tho! :)
WELCOME BACK PHILLYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Missed you at the lake!
WELCOME BACK TX!!! Hope you make it to the next party too!
When IS that btw?

BBRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCE!!!!!!

[Dirty Annie]

Yes, Yes ,Toots....them too.

[AliDoes]

Hi all! Dari, Hi sweetie, you forgot the judge! I'm having Jelly Belly withdrawals!

Gizmeister, a.k.a Fluffy Waffle Chunks (or something like that :) )! How are you schnookums? And which one is Richard? I can't make him out....

[Bubbasue]

Since so many are signing in, I thought I'd joined in and say hi to all. Hope everyone is having a great summer.

[dari]

bubbasue!

i swore i typed your name on that list and then when i saw your post i realized i had missed it. so sorry. but glad to see you check in here. hope all is well.

now i know i will hear about all of the other names i've missed. i missed some of the people who showed up last week.....


come back!!!!

dari

p.s. missed you too toots

[iowamare]

dari---i've missed you toooooooo!
78 is now busted on this alleged golf scam he has been running for so long and apparently getting away with--
ty txfan
lemme know the next swimming date, i will start doing breathing exercises.
it is waaaaaaaaaaaay too fun to have the board to come back to----maybe we can motivate bruce to tour just for us.
where are the cows, that's what i wanna know.

[piwi]

Woow - seeing all the "old" members coming back makes me shiver. What a great community :)

[Bubbasue]

Dari,

No problem, I've been out of touch for awhile. Something called me to the board the other night. It was great to see a lot of the old familar names. There is always something interesting going on.

[stretch]

Posting for the first time in God knows how long! And all because Toots was sweet enough to e-mail me and invite me to the Lake. (Of course, I brought my computer home last Thursday night only to discover I needed a different AOL password, so I missed swimming with everyone! And after Toots took the time to tell me how!)

I've missed everyone so much! Have been AWOL for so long because of the craziness in my industry for the first six months of this year. Thank goodness it slowed down after July 1st.

Been fortunate enough to stay in touch with Dari and Lori as well. Would love to join in at another Lake gathering soon. Toots: can I swim pleaaaaaase? I don't wanna just hafta sit on the dock... ;)

I do miss checking in here and promise to do so regularly. Boy, we need another tour Bruce. My "Bruce Withdrawal" t-shirt from Dari is getting awfully thread-bare!

Cheers,
Stretch

[bossmom]

Great thread Toots! It's so good to see that most everybody is still somehow connected and not totally lost! I am definitely one that is not checking or posting regularly anymore because real grown-up life has been keeping me too busy - I miss everyone and just love it when I do find the time to participate again -

Youguys are the greatest and there is always a good laugh somewhere to be found here!

Gizzy - I too was in my thirties when this started and in about one month I will be starting a new decade myself!!

"If we lose each other in the shadow of the evening trees
I'll wait for you
And should I fall behind
Wait for me"

[Gizzy]

And your family grew to include one more member, did it not?

Happy advance birthday, bossmommy. :D

[bossmom]

Yes Gizzy it did, Bossbaby (Carlos) joined us in April - whew! alot has happened in 1 1/2 years!!!!! and thanks for the early bday wishes and happy belated wishes to you!!!

[dari]

STRETCH!!!

wow. we have to keep this thread going cause now everyone is coming out of the woodwork.

but where is gocart?


dari

[Kumo]

Well, let's see if I can make it in the Lake sometimes. There's a big time difference, but if I come home on a Friday or Saturday night (who knows, it can be 3, 4, 5 or 6am - substract 9 and you'll get Pacific Time), I can turn on the puter and see who's swimming...
Hey 69 Chevy, E Street Girl... where are you?! ;)

Great times!

[Hummer]

Great thread, Toots! It's wonderful to see everyone again -- all these people who first welcomed me here and held my hand when I jumped in the lake for the first time! Let's see if we can get everyone back! Missed you all -- lots! Here's one more:

TWIG-- where are you?

Toots -- are you officially setting the next "lake date"?
Someone please pass my swim fins and my cooler...

Hummer

[man at the top]

OK, here I am, out of the woodwork.Just wanted to throw in my 2 cents here, since it seems people are missing. I have been busy with things, and only check in on Live Daily once or twice a week.I will try to post a new thread on what I have been doing real soon.Thanks for asking for me and thanks being here when ever I need something.For the board members I know and the other that I dont,I hope everyone is having a nice summer and I hope you and your family’s are well.
Eric

[Steve Kurtz]

...continuing to put the touch on those not heard from for a spell, there's a nice little letter in the new BACKSTREETS from Rick Rappaport (Dr. Rick) about his son Max (E Street Kid)...

[dari]

hi eric!

so glad to see you are still amongst us. and kumo too. i guess the rest of the crew will come back when the new tour gets going. i like the thought that even if some don't post they still check in every once in awhile to see what's happening.

unfortunately nothing is...


dari

[bossdad]

I'm still here too, I'm just busy being bossdad to 2 bosskids now. I do miss the Board and hope to get back into the swing of things again...hopefully a new tour will help that happen....

[Hazeleyes]

I am still wondering what happened to DustyBR. Haven't heard from her since she was getting ready to move to Chicago in May. I know others where wondering too.

Amy, hope all went well with the move.

[Smitty-FL]

HELLOOOO!!

Wow, long time no see!
I don't get to check the boards as often as I used to. Since my work schedule changed, I've actually been getting to sleep at a more respectable hour. :rolleyes:
No more LiveDaily at 2am! :eek:
I couldn't believe it when I saw this thread!
Timing is everything!
It's so nice to see all of you are doing well. I hope some more of our buddies will come out to say hi.

Hey...I think I hear some quacking and mooing somewhere off in the distance...

[bossmom]

Ok, I'm putting a call here for

RedheadedWoman1812
Asbury1 + sister (who, as yet, has not signed onto the board but does have a board name picked out!)
EStreetGirl
EStreetGirl's Mom
69 Chevy
Moriley
PJ619
DrT
Andrew
The Judge
MrSports
rnformoms
sugarpie5
musictraveler

I know some of these people have been posting but it'd be nice for them to post here to say hello to everyone . . . more to come later . . . I'm sure!

[Toots]

Thanks for bringing this back up Bossmom. And I'd also like to say, no fair showing up for one teeny little post and then disappearing again! So all of you MIA's who posted here....WHERE HAVE YOU GONE AGAIN?

Toots

[man at the top]

I am still here, for now!

Did you read my re/badlands thread?

Nice news from the home front.

[Imarocker]

Well I'm sitting here at work listening to NY Seranade from the NY set of discs, and have a little time to kill and I find this post going on and on and on...I know alot of you don't know me but I did meet some of you:
DocT
Andrew
RTM2
Robinia
Magic Rat
islander
Pova...
and all the others I met at the parties on the tour of the GREATEST band in the land. I hope to make it back here more often, mainly because these are some of the nicest people I've had the pleasure of meeting.
I do have 1 small request. I relocated to Seattle a few months ago and I'm missing my Philly discs from the B-day show and the following night back in '99". Could I possibly request a copy of these 2 shows from someone, it would be greatly appreciated.

Hope you all have a great 2nd half of summer and lets get some reunion parties going..I plan on going to Vegas in Nov to see U2.. I think Bruce was there in Nov right? Could be a start of something, nothing like Las Vegas to cure a little pre winter blues.

Jim

[CathC]

Imarocker/Jim,

Check your pm's :)

[FLamingoLane]

I didn't get to meet alot of you, but the ones I did meet were all great people... so I wanted to say hello and let you know I'm alive and well.

Much has happened since the last we met (in Atlanta-IslandFan will be pleased to know that he now adorns my wall in a Bruce collage, his picture in 'Gotti' t-shirt from the Atlanta Jounal-Constitution) most importantly in a few days, Mrs. FL and I will be joined on our journey by the third member of our combo... and we couldn't be more excited. We have waited to find out, will keep you posted as to whether the name will be Bruce or Bailey.

I check the board from time to time, and find it comforting just to see the old familiar names. Has anyone officially named Dari the greatest living Brucefan? She seems to be the EF Hutton of Brucefandom, her name on your thread always gives it immediate credibility. Man At The Top always seemed to share my viewpoint on most issues, and he clued me in on the transport in Orlando from the pub... thanks again. I had the priviledge of buying DocT a shot of something flammable in Atlanta, that was a highlight. NaughtySherry's posts always made me laugh. LightningShack was so nice and IMO has the coolest LD name. MusicTraveler, Andrew, and so many others. You guys are the greatest.

THanks,
Skip

[man at the top]

Great to hear from you Skip,and congrats to you and your wife!Maybe we need a thread just for new babys!
Check your email.
Eric

[emsquared]

Hi Dari and All,

I heard from GoCart last weekend.

The p.s. is from his email note...


p.s. I expect to say hi to everyone on the board again within the week. I
can't wait!! It's been a LONG four months.

[GoCartMozart]

Well, as emsquared has foretold, I HAVE returned!! Oh, man, does it feel good to be back. I've missed y'all terribly.

I knew it was time to come back this week when:

1. Sunday I realized that I was within a couple of days of finishing the project that has kept me 120% busy at work for the last four months (more about that later.)

2. Monday, emsquared (I think) e-mailed me a copy of this thread.

3. Tuesday, I saw a headline in USAToday which read:

"Softening Hummer's Image"

It was with mixed feelings that I discovered this story was about GM trying to change the public viewpoint of the passenger vehicle they modeled after the military Humm-Vee. I was disappointed that the story wasn't about our own Hummer, but glad to see that our WWA wasn't trying to change her image!! Nevertheless, I knew this was a sign that it was time to come back. As with this whole absence, which I thought would be about a month, and never dreamed would last FOUR, it is only appropriate that it took until 5 o'clock Friday to actually make it here.

I apologize for the lack of notice of my absence, but I did have a couple of very good reasons (and a couple which aren't quite as good). It would take a lot more than just Wild Horses to keep me away from here. Mountains high, rivers wide: not enough! But here's the story in a nutshell:

Before April 1, I was accessing the site about 80% of the time from work and about 20% from home. There seemed to be a cumulative hour or so per day that I was either waiting for a program to compile or link or waiting for someone to get back to me with critical information. This is relevant because: at that point, I ran into a programmer's worst nightmare. We discovered that, on a project with an utterly immovable deadline (by law, the program had to be working on July 1), a significant section of the program which was NOT supposed to require modification at the time the schedule was laid out WOULD NOT WORK with the new changes in place and WOULD have to be modified fairly significantly itself. At that point, we were on what appeared to be a very makeable schedule. It was immediately clear that we were in deep weeds (and thus began, the multi-tasking 120%, pedal-to-the-floor from the time I came in until the time I left work situation I referred to earlier). On July 1, we had a program which basically accomplished the goal, although for some situations (which were not the norm, but unfortunately were not uncommon) manual intervention into the process was required, which slowed down both the production system AND our development since we were required to continue development and handle those manual interventions as well. Finally, yesterday we managed to get the rest of the changes in place and avoid the manual interventions.

And THAT was the easy part. Since April 1, my father has been in the hospital twice and, in between, moved from the house he lived in for 39 years into an assisted living center. He has fairly advanced emphysema, and we had just gotten him to consider looking into assisted living environments when the first hospital trip took place, and the doctors recommended STRONGLY that he go from the hospital into such a place and no longer live by himself. Handling all the details of that transition, as well as the process of applying for a military pension for which he is entitled, to help pay for the assisted living center, could have been a full-time job in themselves (it feels like I've spent as much time on it as I have here at the office!). Only someone who's dealt with the Veteran's Administration before can imagine the paperwork and the delays involved in dealing with this organization. (You military guys -- is the military itself this unbelievably bogged down in bureaucracy or is the VA actually worse?? It's hard to believe the military is that bogged down. If it were, we'd still be filling out the paperwork to get out of the Vietnam War, not just printing up the paper money to pay for it!)

Anyway, I was finally getting caught up enough with that situation to see some light at the end of the tunnel, and responded to an e-mail from Dari about three weeks ago that I would be back REAL soon, when he went back in the second time -- this time with pneumonia on top of the emphysema. THAT is a very ugly combination. I BEG any of you who are smokers, PLEASE STOP NOW!! PLEASE!! Whatever you get from the nicotine CANNOT be worth it. It was painful to WATCH, I can't imagine how hard that week was for him to go through. Fortunately, though, the second antibiotic they tried on the pneumonia worked very well (the particular strain of pneumonia he had was resistant to the first antibiotic) and he made it through his week of Hell. He's back home (his apartment in the assisted living center) and doing fairly well. Although his strength is way down, and he lost 12 pounds (which he didn't need to lose. He was already 5-7, 115 pounds!) I hope he'll gradually be able to build his strength and weight back up again. I know it took a long time for him to work his way back from the radiation treatments for prostate cancer -- and that was when he was 5 years younger.

Those are my two GOOD reasons. My not so good reasons:
1. We've had out-of-town company for 7 of the last 12 weekends. My dad had 11 sisters and a brother, only one of whom lives in Houston right now. This only accounted for half the company, but doubling our expected amount of out-of-town company has kept us pretty darned busy. It's been nice to see everybody, but why does it seem like it's only during funerals, marriages, critical illnesses, and other such stressful situations that families are able to get together? (Answer my own question: because in a family that large, it's almost inevitable that somebody will be going through such a situation at almost any given time!)

2. What little web-time I've had available has had to be used to fulfill my role as commissioner of the Fantasy Baseball league I'm in, as well as keeping up with the Springsteen-fan league we put toegether here, right before all this came down. (I don't know how, given how little time I've had for it, but somehow I've managed to stay neck-and-neck with Hazard from Harvard for about seventh place most of the season.)


"All them things that seemed so important,
They vanished right into the air...."

No, not really, this site never vanished, nor ceased to feel important to me. Just knowing it was here, ready for me to come back to when I finally got through this period of stress, was very helpful.

To those of you who e-mailed me during this time and who did send your positive thoughts and prayers my dad's way: THANK YOU. It means more to me than you could ever know.

To those of you who've expressed your hopes to see me back on this thread: Thanks for the thoughts, but you know what they say -- be careful what you wish for. (You've probably forgotten just how verbose I can be!!!)

And to everyone else: Be warned -- HEEE'S BAAAAACK!!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a LOT of catching up to do on this site.

p.s. As emsquared mentioned in the previous post -- it HAS been a LONG four months. It's really good to be back!!!

And ok, if that story was a nutshell, I REALLY don't want to see the tree the nut grew on.

[imabrucefan]

Good to have you back, GoCart. Good luck with your Dad--it's so hard to see our parents getting old, huh? I am so blessed that both of mine are still basically healthy, though my mom has a touch of emphysema also. She was a smoker for 30 years but did manage to quit about 10 years ago. It's never too late! You're right, if you smoke, QUIT NOW. I work in a hospital and 8 out of 10 patients in the critical care units with hopeless illnesses are smokers. It is absolutely the worst thing you can do for your health. Anyway, welcome back.

[dari]

what can i say but... YAY GOCART'S BACK ( sung to the tune of course of "kitty's back").

been missing you bigtime my friend. i am so sorry to hear about your dad. i lost my aunt who i was closer to than i am to my mom to this dreaded disease. it's very hard to see our loved ones go downhill from something that could be prevented and i echo your sentiments about smoking. i am thrilled to hear that your self-employment wound up being a great move and i totally understand the ridiculous hours. i may post here a lot but it is between the 80-90 hours i work weekly. surviving the visiting relatives is another trip altogether and i can only imagine how much youand your wife relish some time alone after all of that company.


all of that said...i owe you a tee. in case you didn't know you won the annual LD reader's poll in which you were voted "most missed board member" by a huge margine. that should, if nothing else, let you know your standing here at LD....


dari

[LJK]

GoCart, welcome back! I know how things go with elderly parents, it's never easy...hope he's doing better!

[Toots]

GoCart..WELCOME BACK!

I'm thrilled that you made your appearance on this thread too. :) I hope that your Dad is doing better and stays out of the hospital. I'm not looking forward to the day that my parents start having those problems.

Now that GoCart is back, all we need now is another tour!

Toots

[ForYou]

Welcome back GoCart--after reading all that I'm amazed that you made it. Glad your dad is better and hope he will get stronger. It's nice to have such a large family, wish I did.

[Toots]

Where is King Richard Of Livedaily? I was thinking today that he hasn't been seen in these parts in ages.

YOOOHOOOOO RICHARD! Come out, Come out where ever you are!

Toots

[Richard Tafoya]

Howdy, all. I've been lurking when I can. There's plenty of job-stuff pulling me in many directions, but I'm keeping one foot on the Twister board, as it were. :)

Party on.

Richard

[Hazeleyes]

Welcome Back GoCart,

Glad your Dad is doing better and your project is done. Sent you the e-mail of this thread and several others e-mails. I will have some CDs for you when I get back from Atlanta (I can't remember if I told you about them in the last e-mail).

GoCart is back, now the next thing we are waiting for is the announcement of a new CD, DVD and tour. :D

[Magic Rat]

Welcome Back Go Cart! (to the tune of Welcome Back Kotter)
Hazleyes:
The DVD will be out in September
The CD will be out in October.
The rehersals will be in AP in November/December and we're all invited.
And the tour starts in January. Expect your front row tickets in the mail right before Christmas-gratis from TM.
Here's hoping some of that is true! :D

[Mo Riley]

Bossmom,
I'm still here, posting once in a blue moon, but mostly working a lot and building a house and traveling every other weekend.

Mr. Andrew D. Wicks was in O-town on Friday night, so we scheduled a mini-reunion and had dinner and drinks at Disney World. We called Doc T on his cell to find him having dinner with Paulie and All that Heaven will Allow in Baltimore!

Hope to see lots of LiveTramps at the Stone Pony on the 18th and again at the Birchmere, where some of you will get to meet Mr. Moriley for the first time.

BTW, my favorite missing person is TougherThan....Where are you???? Hope to see you on the 18th.

Mo

[dari]

mo

glad to see you're out there. now where is our other las vegas seatmate...MISS P?????

dari

[Mo Riley]

D-
I had dinner at Miss P's amazing house in the trees a few weeks ago in Park City. We had a grand time (with our respective husbands) playing craps and learning all the Vegas lingo that goes along with it.

Hope she posts soon!

Mo

[obsessed]

So Toots, when is the next lake party??? :)

[Toots]

ACK! Thanks for reminding me Obs! I've been so busy with work and helping Douger get his baseball team together that I forgot to post it. So....How about every Friday night we have a standing invitation to the "old" lake? If you can make it that would be fabulous, and if you can't then catch us next time. We had such a good time there when we all got together. Here's the link:
http://www.greasylake.springsteen.com/main-tc.htm

Once you get there, you have to click on the link that says Palace Amusements, then chat. Wait for the screen to come up where it says "Guest" you can highlight it and put your own name in. Then click enter. You do not have to put in a password. Please note that this is a different chatroom than the one at greasylake.org. It was put together by Karsten of greasylake a long time ago, then abandoned when he put together the newer site. The "new" one at greasylake.org requires registering for it, the one we are going to does not. If you have to register you are at the wrong one!

Obs...I'll do an email to my list, if you do one also we can hopefully pick up the old regulars.

Toots

[obsessed]

K

:)