I just read the three new messages, and wanted top respond to all of them, if I may...

Terry, Thank you. You speak for many of us in your note, and I have appreciated all the assistance, courtesy, and company you (as well as so many others) have provided me. I hopoe I fall somewhere in your company of friends, and next year, I hope you'll allow me the pleasure of taking some of your money.

Joe Pavlik, I like you, liked you last year, and still like you. But you need to soften up. I spend a lot of my working day at the top of my lungs. A professional hazard. BUt there are times to soft pedal. You should feel free to speak your mind, but accept the fact that people of good will may diagree with you (I told you right to your face in Vegas, I did) and as far as Ms Hixon goes, I spent a couple of hours with her on Thursday, and found her to be very pleasant. Next year rent a van or P/U so you can haul me and my scooter back and forth to the Palms

Lastly, The article was cool, but who were these clean cut types he was speaking to. I only remember a bunch of degenerate gamblers, who claimed possession of the Splash Bar.

Aaron