>>I forgot to mention to everyone that I heard from Tom. He seems to be enjoying himself. Bought himself an Irish banjo and is having fun with that while also expanding his guitar horizons (unfortunately to include, among other things, C&W). He still hasn't decided whether he needs or wants to find part time work, so for now I guess he's relaxing. He says that if he does decide to find part time work, he thinks he'd rather it not be in the programming field. Says he doesn't need the stress.
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>>He seems to be enjoying his life.
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>Thank you for posting this. When I saw the title I was braced for the worst.

Just looking at my elementary school class and the one from high school (sized 30 and 26 of us), two of each are already gone - and that's that I know of. And here as well, over the last few years we did lose some well-known members. So I looked at the title of the thread with the same chill... nice to have some nice news, for a change.