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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
>
>