I shall be absent from my routine supervision of this magnificent List from Monday afternoon on 6/27 until 7/7 or so. I am scheduled to travel off to the USian northlands, in Alaska, to view my seven-month-old grandson for the first time. I have not warned the fellow moderators of this, but you are being left in capable hands as they are quite as capable as I am at slapping down foolishness and combating ignorance on all fronts as I am. Those of some duration on this List will recall that my last such vacation was around this same time four years back when I went to Ireland on my honeymoon. My primary conflict is whether to entrust my father's fly rod to the vagueries of airline transport. He bought this in Reno in 1947 and had it with him when he prospected a couple of busted claims there in 1948. I grew up on this fly rod and used it until, for a variety of reasons, none gustatory or enviornmental, I ceased fishing in 1965. Forty years later, I am getting back into fly fishing, and all of my adult help has died. Sheezh! In any event, please have a grand time between now and the 10th ultimo, and I shall be back by then or before. Marc msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505 --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list