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[DFW]

143. Well, well! Bona Tarde, home (good evening, man) as the natives say.

I'm back in Barcelona for the day, so I'm still in Catalan mode.

Reading through all you've done and been through, it sounds like your ride makes mine sound like I've been standing still.

I'm glad you seem to have a handle on your medical issues. One week ago today, I was having my heart operated on back in Germany, but it seems the procedure has become almost routine (ablation), and, indeed, I was given the green light to travel.

You seem to have kept pace with your changes, which I have always marveled at. I've been with the same outfit for 52 years (a few radical changes: around a dozen barely 20-somethings when I joined in 1975, over a thousand worldwide now, most of whom weren't born when we started).

This evening, I had dinner here in Barcelona with the 25 year old daughter of another DU member. She came to stay with my wife and me just 2 weeks ago in Germany. Sic transit gloria mundi. I've been here on DU close to 20 years myself--or is it 20 years already? No idea any more. We have done no more live shows in DC like the one you came to, although dozens of political musical videos in the same vein online--some with over a half million views, one near a million. Ya gotta have a hobby, right? The political landscape is more fluid than the ground in Caracas right now. A friend of mine is being talked about as our next presidential nominee, another has been touted as a possibility. All unhatched chickens at this point. Who was "President Obama" in June of 2006, after all?

It sounds like it won't be long before you and madame are grandparents (if you aren't already and I missed it). Mrs. DFW and I already are, four times over. You get used to the notion, but not the reality.

The "bizarro world" DU spinoff seems to have faded away, and now it's just us chickens. Not exactly one big happy family, but, still. one big family of some sort or other. I still go by my original rule--I ignore posts, but not the poster. You never know when someone you thought incapable of posting something interesting turns around and does just that.

So, welcome back and all, and as we "suthenahs" are reputed to say, set yer feet up and stay a spell! I won't lie and say we never bite, for I have the teeth impressions to prove the opposite, but at the end of the day, they are just pixels. The real world always offers a challenge to get your mind off of things. For that matter, it always did, even if it's easy to lose sight of that by getting too involved here.