last post for NYC was March 09. Hope all is well?

And, where oh where is Chipper Tex.

Chipper is alive and well but taking a sabbatical. He seems to be takingg his running far too seriously for him to have time to contribute here!

I've been wondering about JAWP and Ken too.......

Well, look what Google came up with:

nydailynews.com/money/2009/06/29/2009-06-29_…

My thanks to Ange who was the one who actually found it.

Thanks for the recognition Nic!

And yes, Chipper is running rings around himself so no worries there.

The wanderer returns!

Still wandering.......

Hello Ange ..... Nic ..... if you see Chipper him I miss him and I still have his picture sitting on my desk next to my wife's. Also tell him the kids keep asking me ..... "When's daddy coming home?" It's starting to get awkward ..... what should I tell them?

Come away, away children

Come children, come down!

The hoarse wind blows coldly;

Lights shine in the town.

She will start from her slumber

When gusts shake the door;

She will hear the winds howling,

Will hear the waves roar.

We shall see, while above us

The waves roar and whirl,

A ceiling of amber,

A pavement of pearl.

Singing: "Here came a mortal,

But faithless was she!

And alone dwell for ever

The kings of the sea."

But, children, at midnight,

When soft the winds blow,

When clear falls the moonlight,

When spring-tides are low;

When sweet airs come seaward

From heaths starr'd with broom,

And high rocks throw mildly

On the blanch'd sands a gloom;

Up the still, glistening beaches,

Up the creeks we will hie,

Over banks of bright seaweed

The ebb-tide leaves dry.

We will gaze, from the sand-hills,

At the white, sleeping town;

At the church on the hill-side—

And then come back down.

Singing: "There dwells a loved one,

But cruel is she!

She left lonely for ever

The kings of the sea."

..... Matthew Arnold "The Forsaken Merman"