[Seahawk]

Supe,

I thought about PM'ing you but decided to roll the dice. Please take any comments I make with a pillar of salt. I have said it before and I'll say it again, you're on my bucket list of bubbas to meet: you are a unique mix, in the most positive sense. That and I've see your rather pale ale, if you know what I mean.

There are more cliches' describing life's roils than grains of sand; more notions on how to improve than actual improvement.

So, pick one, or don't. It is that easy since there are no new revelations. You get to decide whether you get in touch with your lost youth or your lost friend, you get to ride the horse or stay in the stable, shoveling manure. Choices mean responsibility, commitment. Opt in or opt out. Your call. That is the essence and beauty of life...you get to make the call.

My Dad, the engineer, told me that life resembles a sinusoidal wave (he ready did), and that it is best to take a steady pull, dampen the troughs and the highs, understand the immutable laws of life: sometimes you're the bat, sometimes your're the ball.

One last thing, as trite and time honored a navy cliche' as has ever been written: Don't steer by the wake.

I wish you all the best.