In my ongoing battle in trying to stave off total economic collapse, I survived my "raise" of 1.3% from my sole Veterans Administration source of income! The Social Security folks have finally agreed with the V.A. that I am INDEED disabled. I now receive a check from them also! That means that I have no overdue monthly payments and my phone bill is finally up to date! It also means that I can finally upgrade my slow computer. It also means that I can upgrade my car which is older than Willy and has decidedly more rust!
Then again, maybe this light at the end of the tunnel is deceiving.
It certainly doesn't shine for the Highway Poets! The latest
casualty, after Peddlar and Ogar, is none other than Splitfoot
himself! After tiring of "hanging by his thumbs" he has decided to
turn in his Highway Poet patch and devote himself exclusively to the
GONAS MC. Hopefully, by the time Lizzard and I get ready to lift the
HPMCC cart back onto the track, there'll be a viable membership left
to serve! There have been nominations for Lizzard as National
Secretary and me as Membership Secretary. I should send out ballots
soonest. Note my reference to HPMCC. Odin has proposed that we adopt
the European style and change our patch to look like this:
Approval of this change will also be put to ballot. I am looking forward to getting things back into gear and rolling smoothly. I had hoped that Splitfoot would be able to make it out East for Laconia Week, but now that he is no longer a Poet, I guess it is not to be. He would ALWAYS be welcome here in any case! One person who intends to visit these shores is my friend Wolf, who rides his 1500 Intruder around Bad Gandersheim in Germany.
Whadafug! He certainly looks like a Poet. Perhaps we have here a prospect? Wolf intimates that his trip across the "big pond" may not happen for a couple of years yet. I think he is more keen on exploring the Western states, rather than tooling around in the East. In any case, we have bros on both coasts he could hook up with!