Life has been a little hectic since I returned from Vegas, so I am a bit delinquent in expressing my appreciation to several folks. I thank everybody in the club and in the hobby, because as a group I can't imagine a better group of folks. But special thanks are due to so many, I am sure I will miss several, please believe me, you all share a piece of my heart.

Thank you to my good friend Mike and Dawn for all the hard work they did on the convention. This appreciation extends to all of the volunteers whom without we could not have such a wonderful convention.

Thank you to Riverboat Rick, Tyrus Mulkey, Ed Hertel, Steve Bedo, Brian Cashman, and Susan Kozlowski for the parts they played in helping me get all my plans in place at the very last moment (and for their continued friendship). Thanks to Gene Jackson for lunch at the RIO (next time hopefully the food will be better). Thanks to Greg for hosting the get together at the Palms, and to Gene and the Palms for their assistance in that as well.

Thank you to everybody who I traded with, or whose stuff I looked through. Thanks to all the folks who made deals with me on chips I really wanted. Thanks to Fred & Jeri, Shoop, Ron, Julie & Ron, and to all the others at Splashbar for sucha good time. Thanks to Claude for BBQ andMonte Python,andspecial Thanks to Sam Wagmeister for help getting such great tix for the show.

Thanks to the Chicagoland Chippers to coming to the meeting in Vegas. Thanks to BOD and all the other club leaders who do so much. Thank you to Allen Anderson for giving us such a great club mag, and thank you to my buddy Todd Barrett for taking on the challenge of keeping it there.

Thanks Mark for the books, I am almost done with the last of them, so now I need to get some more.

Thanks to all of you who make chipping the best hobby there is. And Happy 4th of July.