freeform goodness

Dude, thanks so much for the shout out. As you've no doubt figured out, i am alive (i was in Auroville, India a couple kilometers from the coast), and have even started writing publicly again (the best is yet to come). Me and family are all okay, a few friends have lost friends and family, and one friend nearly died - see http://ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?TimothysTsunamiExperience p.s. Not as much as i hate spam, but i hate type-in-to-prove-you're human thingies. The ASCII art version raises just enough nostalgia to make it fun though :-)