

| Subject: | Re: blatant plea for sympathy (LVC!) |
| From: | Evan Mac Donald |
| Date: | Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:08:08 -0800 |
Nope-even better (worse) - Bad weather, stuck-in-the-house, with two teen-agers, AND the wife. Dog is stuck, too. Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> wrote: OK, you two, it's one-upmanship time! I have a very bad, severe even, hangnail. So nah, nah, nah. Mike On 1/14/07 12:15 PM, "Keith Ovregaard" wrote: > Ok, Joy, stop hogging the sympathy! My poor neglected westy has been > sitting in the driveway for 5 days waiting for me to recover from what > may be walking pneumonia. Just walking up the driveway from the mailbox > gets me winded and feeling like an old geezer! Fifty is too young for > geezerdom status! Sheesh, I was running 4-5 miles several times a week > prior to this! Not only that, a good friend of almost 30 years just > died of a cancerous brain tumor. The last photo I have of her is one > that her hubby shot of the 2 of us in front of the VikingWagen in San > Francisco just after her 3rd brain surgery. Other than that, life is > fine, Oh yeah, I forgot about the divorce and my aging parent issues > (mom has Alzheimer's or some kind of dementia, but she won't see a > doctor). > > I don't mean to one-up you Joy, really. And I don't want to sound like > I am complaining either. Life could be worse! I have many good friends, > a wonderful 16 year old daughter who just dropped by with some cough > medicine and food, a nice roof over my head, a heater that works, the > sun is shining strong today and there are a bunch of very cool people > out there all over the world who share more than just a passion for > their old busses. It's nice to be a part of this group of fine people. > > Keith O. > 90 Westy Syncro "VikingWagen" > Past VeeDubs in the family > 1984 Westy "Brownie" > 1980 PU diesel > 1979 Rabbit > 1963? 23 window Splitty > 1965 Bus > 1969 Bus > 1959 Bug > >
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