On Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:21:10 -0700 (PDT), Matt Murray
<racingmatt@yahoo.com> said:
>Jim is more than half way to Nationals. This is great!
>
>Now I just need to here from Jim himself. Someone go
>over and wake him up. :^)
>
>Matt Murray
>11:23 Wednesday 9/4
Wow. I just got the digest (some time after a room-share offer from Susan
Delzell) with this in it. Matt, my friend, and all those who have
contributed, I am deeply honored and touched by the sentiment.
Unfortunately, as I told Susan, I cannot accept this honor. I have some
interviews scheduled next week that I have some Very Positive Vibes about,
and I do not want to reschedule. Furthermore, my lovely and supremely
patient wife, Karen, has been busting her behind, working every scrap of
overtime she can get and putting all *her* priorities to the back burner to
keep us afloat during my unplanned downtime. It would be somewhere beyond
cruel and deep into inexcuseable if I were to head off to Kansas for a week
of frolic under those circumstances.
I will not do that to her.
So, there you go. I would suggest that donors either hold on to their
money for next year's DTN effort (with some more advanced planning) or
donate the funds to a suitable charity (and the Team.Net Server Fund is
certainly suitable to me if no other is found).
Again, a big "thank you" to all of you and particularly to Matt Murray for
instigating. I'm honored and humbled that so many would want to basically
*give* me a good time. I'm not sure what I've done to earn such as that,
but I will continue to try to be worthy.
Sincerely,
Jim Crider
autojim@att.net
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