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Friends of Sailnet
This topic has come up from time to time and I was just thinking about the other day.
Mike, His Wife Barbra, and Son Michalle are now preparing for their return drive home to New York. I believe that they are leaving today after picking up Courtney's ashes yesterday.
They were in Chicago on Tuesday when Mike called and I said lets get together for some Dinner, we have a great Rib joint down the street. Come on over to the house and lets spend some time together here.
One thing lead to another and the next thing you know, the day after spending the night with us, Barb is preparing the best Lasanga dinner I have ever had and Mike made a very tasty sausage and pepper plate that was to die for.
We were fortunate enough to have left overs the following day and almost finished it all off, but still had some left to take to work today.
It was amazing, and Guy can attest to this, at the services and everywhere we went, people would ask, "Now how is it that you know each other?" When the response was, "From an internet site", peolpe just could not believe it. Of course I would throw in there everyonce in a while, "From an internet Porn Site" and that seemed to be more acceptable.
I am a very fortunate person. Sailor's to the end.
Good things happen around this place.
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Thanks Courtney.
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Tim, You and Julie are excellent hosts, as I was fortunate enough to find out first hand. Well done on hosting Mike and family.
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TJK-
When you said "From an internet Porn site" did people ask you what website you were performing on??? 
Seriously, good job hosting Mike and his family, especially at this time, where they need all the support and warmth they can get.
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You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
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Tim...you are number ONE!!!
really....
Made me proud of being your friend...
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The constant friendships and meetings that take place though this site will never cease to amaze me - across towns, bays, cities, countries and even oceans (props to you Giu). I am honestly proud to be a member of this fine group. Tim - you are a great person for all you have done reaching out to a fellow member at such a difficult time.
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Tim,
It's people like you that restore my faith in the human race. Very good of you to have Mike and family over, and thanks again for keeping us informed.
Yesterday I got the rest of my cards to Courtney returned, unopened.
Thanks, John
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We live in a wonderful era where recreational sailing is available to those with modest means, and communication is, essentially, free and instantaneous.
I am grateful for all the kind people at Sailnet, and the friends I have here, both real and virtual.
Wherever I am, and particular, when I am sailing, you are all with me.
I am proud to be a part of this community, especially when we step up and help each other.
David
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Tim,
You are truly a good person.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jrd22
Tim,
It's people like you that restore my faith in the human race.
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That's a fact, Jack!
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09-27-2008
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It is not for nothing that tjk1, Tim, is the Midwestern Director of Logistics for the AFOC's. There can be no more gracious and attentive host. A standard visit to the big blue Julianna consists of Tim asking when you'd like to get underway, where you like to sail, and once underway-how you'd like to sail. Lunch is when you want it, how you want it, and you've just got to figure that he's the kind of guy whom, were he a charter boat captain, all the other guys would resent for his repeat business. Tim is so solicitous of his guests that he spends most of his time apologizing for the lack of wind, as if he's supposed to control that also!
Go ahead and accuse me of blowing sunshine up his ass but that's the way he is, a true gentleman and a sailor. I trust him implicitly and am tickled pink that we just happened to meet. But then, I don't believe in coincidences any more. And I'm darn glad it is he and Julie who have been so close, and so willing, to Chicago these last few months. There just isn't anybody I know who could have expressed in person so well what we AFOC's have all been feeling these past few months.
He sails in the rain, too! My kind of guy.
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