Dear Friends:
I returned from a bit of a "Road Trip" last night, checked my phone messages,
and heard Miss Chris Moore's recorded message that I'd won the 99 DTN contest.
GREAT way to come home, lemme tell ya! I have Waaaaayy too many "Thank You's"
due to people for posting to the list, but I have to name a few... Bear with
me!
Thanks to Katie, who started it all. I thought it was a jolly good one, laughed
my arse off reading her postings, and I'll be darned, it WORKED!!! Katie, your
written words, I think, set the tone for the whole contest, and suited me to a
"T" (That'd be a "T Series" MG!). Thanks to NAP for printing my mass of
scribblings along the way. Thank you, Kelly family.
Mike B and the TLS gang, who recognized a "kindred spirit" and took me under
their (duct taped, slightly tattered) wing. I don't know why I never got into
TLS before this, definitely "my bad." (Hey, like THAT's a new thing!?!?!)
Thanks to all of you.
To JK, Chris, Karl, Carl, Bill, and the ENTIRE Dixie Region Gang. Ya'll are
family, always will be. Thank you. Can't wait to SEE YOU, Jackson!!! (Think
we can keep the ol' girl running for TWO DAYS?) Miss Chris, thanks for your
"special efforts" in turning out votes. Thanks to Betsy and "Big" Dick, in
Atlanta, for your support, too. Love you all... I mean, Love YA'LL!
Thanks to the LV Region, all my new friends in the desert. Tom, thanks for the
scandalous web page. That'll teach ME to make jokes with the web-meister, won't
it? And thanks to guys like Gene and Rick, for making me part of the group.
(This is starting to sound like an Academy award speech, isn't it???? Now, if
only it was some starlet with big.... uh, Blue Eyes making the speech... Oh
well, just a few more things...)
THANK YOU to TEAM.NET, for choosing to send Lucretia to Nationals!!! To my two
competitors, Mssrs. Meissner and Moon, congratulations on being nominated, and
you guys are GREAT, it was fun "campaigning" against ya'll. I hope both of you
get nominated and chosen in the next few years. You deserve it, guys, honest.
I think we should some day try out Paul Cz's suggestion we share a Scotch.
(I'll have a beer, thank you, but you get the idea.)
**Last, but FOR SURE not least, thanks to all the British Dogs, who have kept me
going for a lot of years.**
Hey, I gotta get to work now. I thank all of you again. If I left out anybody
I should have named, blame it on it being early out here, and at my age I have
trouble remembering MY name some days. (What was I saying?? Oh, yeah...) Come
by and visit at Topeka, I look forward to meeting all my friends at Team.Net.
NOW, I'll get back to being my usual anything-but-serious self! Onwards and
sidewards, chaps!
JD Kemp &
"Lucretia MacEvil" #13 MGB (currently awating arrival of a new starter!)
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