TIM RICHARDSON -> ROSS SAUER wrote:
 TR> On 12-17-08, ROSS SAUER said to JIM HOLSONBACK:


 TR>>> Sauer has disappeared (to have another `life-threatening'
 TR>>  operation, no doubt)!


 JH>> There may be some truth to that.  He hasn't posted in the Lounge at
 JH>> the DUmp since the wee hours of the AM on 12/5 (a week ago today) and
 JH>> I don't see any Fido posts by him since the afternoon of 12/6.


 JH>> He also was clearly having problems with his mood-stabilizing meds
 JH>> toward the end of last month, and pretty much big-time into manic
 JH>> phase, so he may have blown a cork to do with that problem.


 JH>> Then, there's his history of problems with addiction to
 JH>> narcotic/analgesic painkillers.  That may have cropped up again, with
 JH>> his recent post-surgery prescriptions.

 JH>> Just guessing here, but since he has a hard time holding his tongue in
 JH>> Fidonet, coupled with his absence from the DUmp, I'd say there is for
 JH>> sure some situation keeping him away.


 RS>> Yes, stupid.


 RS>> A computer on the fritz from Friday the 5th.


 TR> Gee....thats too bad. Not that I wished any harm to you, you understand,
 TR> but I
 TR> kept checking the obituaries of the papers in and around Sheboygan
 TR> looking for
 TR> the goo....er.........bad news.

I don't know about podunk towns like Sheboygan, but these days REAL papers
charge for notices. Engagements, weddings, and obituaries must be paid for
and if no one pays for a notice Otto will pass unknown.

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