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Those are two good signings. Wonder when the Pats will turn from releasing people to signing them?

Great pics!

John, Paul, I'm sure you'll enjoy these pics, then: Super pics, Barak! More!

I just checked my old passport. 23rd September 1985 for seven days. Guess we weren't there exactly the same time, but pretty darn close!

It was "Burma" in 1985 when I visited... Same year I visited Conn, November 1985. This is really eerie. I don't remember the month, but could probably find it through some research. I think I visited in the Fall too. Could we have been on the same plane? How did you get to Pagan? I had to take an awful route: train to Thazi then jammed up bus from Thazi to Pagan. I remember it took hours. Couldn't stand to take the bus back to Thazi, so I paid for a personal "taxi" back from Pagan to the train station in Thazi. I don't recall seeing any other foreigners in Pagan...well wait...there was a French woman who kind of hitched up with us on the horse and buggy. But that couldn't have been you!

It was "Burma" in 1985 when I visited...

I've been to many places and lived in four countries. I'm always happiest where I happen to be NOW! So the answer is Ohio, USA! But in the spirit of some of the wonderful comments expressed on this thread earlier, I must also point out some unforgettable and exotic moments: --Looking at the Irawaddy River from atop a temple ruin in Pagan, Burma. --Being transported around Pagan by horse and buggy. --Staying in or visiting the old grand hotels in Asia long past their prime, such as the Strand in Rangoon, the Peninsular in Hong Kong and the Caravel in Saigon. --Having the entire beach to myself in Abaco Island, Bahamas. --Yeah, I liked standing on top the Citadel in Chitzen Itza, Mexico too, but the beach scene from the hotel may have had that beat! --Watching the rain come my way like a moving curtain while sitting in an open restaurant in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, staring at the Laos hills across the Mekhong. --Playing as a child in an old plantation house in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. --Taking long walks in the Lake District of England. --Spending three days in the Louvre in Paris. --Touring through a WWII-vintage Australian destroyer in Sydney harbour. --Shopping for books in London, or Singapore, or Hong Kong or a small town in the USA. --Staring into the jaws of an active volcano in Montserrat, West Indies. --Exploring those old sugar mills in Antigua, or Montserrat or Jamaica. --Boat tour through Halong Bay, Vietnam. My photos were destroyed when my camera went through the x-ray machine. The indelible pictures remain in my memories only. --Staring at the base of a mountain in Nagano, Japan from the open porch of a farmhouse. (Never been to Africa, nor Russia, nor much of Europe beyond France and Britain.) I feel deprived... B-)

Happy Birthday to one of the board's greazziest members!

Happy Birthday, JP!

The only proper penance for you, Red, would be some kind of enforced apprenticeship with a Wall Street broker! hehehe!

Happy Birthday Wes! Don't go too far South of the Border!

I like it also. One of my favorite CTIs.

Happy Birthday Noj! Keep on painting! I also hope one day you will learn to respect the NE Patriots!

Agreed. I have no problem with B's request.

Anyone willing to part with Jimmy Smith, "I'm Movin On?" I used to have it and disliked it, but would like to try it again.

Great job, David! I'm impressed!

I got your "warm welcome" right here.

Where's Rooster?

Vince Guaraldi has been mailed to etherbord Lost Grooves has been mailed to Brad John Patton will be mailed to Underground this Saturday.

I'd take it except I've already got the JRVG version.

etherbord and I have traded. Mentioned this so that we could add some extra spice to this concept! CDs are given away and traded!

Haven't had as much fun since Grey used to post his sales.

send address please...

And I offer (first dibs goes to Brad for his kindness...) John Jenkins/Kenny Burrell Connoisseur Series. or.... Blue Note Lost Grooves!