VCF Midwest update?

Rumor has it that Bob Shannon may have mentioned these words: Then let me know which areas this doesn't work and I'll be sure to avoid them. [[ OK, if there's implied attitude in the above statement, it's not intended.... ]] 98% of my workday involves Winblows, lusers, cow-orkers and spam. My other 2% can be defined as "commute." Classic computing is something I do to get away from the "formality of crap" that makes up my day, and the few moments I get to steal away from my employer (well, that'd be me ;-) I consider to be a "3-minute personal holiday." When classic computing becomes Ducks Unlimited, the Elks lodge or Bill Gates dinner parties, I'm either 1) moving to the mountains of British Columbia with a generator and solar power, to enjoy my classics in peace, or 2) selling it all, hoping I make enough for a one-way ticket to Germany so I can at least drink decent beer. Well, if you're talking VCF explicitly, I think that would be up to Sellam, Pat, Hans and other that actually put them on. Others are certainly entitled to start their own venues and set their own rules. I can say one thing: If the VCF's evolve in the direction you're hinting at, I'll bow out now, because I don't know if I'd have the same "intestinal fortitude" Sellam has to get the ball rolling on a similar project, and the "New and Improved" VCF would be no fun for me whatsoever. [[ And yes, my coin collection has been for the most part static for 2 decades, since that hobby was yanked out of the hands of the common man. ]] All above is IMHO, of course. Trying (and so far failing) to survive yet another grumpy Wednesday, Roger "Merch" Merchberger P.S. Why do they always call Wednesdays "hump day" when I'm too damn tired for sex??? :-O ;-) -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | A new truth in advertising slogan SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | for MicroSoft: "We're not the oxy... zmerch at 30below.com | ...in oxymoron!"