Now I get to

I'll be back.

Just a short explanation of the last month.

After a very difficult decision of taking a leave of absense from FTE Administration in March,I have returned to my duties.I requested to Ken to deactivate my admin rights so I could avoid allowing a personal crisis from showing up in my FTE duties.
Although, I have occasionally managed to take some time as regular user.
Let's face it, for me to go cold turkey from FTE would have had disasterous results.
At this time I feel it was the right thing to do.

Some of you may have asked what was going on with me.

Well, The middle of March was a very diffcult time for me with all the responsibilites I had.

1) I considered FTE a Major responsibility for me. Making sure that an administrator was always around. It never occured to me that I was setting myself up for a Major blow-out which of course did end up happening.

2) Taking care of Michelle because of a step backward in her medical rehabilitation.


3) Dealing with a front yard that looks awful from being dug up last Septenber (Snow was good for something ) & I was getting complaints from our neighbors.

4) My Dad had become ill again & lives 80 miles away.

5) My Cousin in England was told he only had a few months to live.... he died in less than 2 weeks.This without me being able to talk with him or even send a audio cassette to share my feelings with him.This guy was an amazing mechanic on foreign autos. He died a couple of weeks ago at 56.

6) Medication.
I was having problems with side-effects from medications. During the course of the last month I had discussions with Eric (Torque1st) and Ken (Webmaster) to say in touch with what was transpiring in my life. These two truly are friends.

Suffering 3 months of Pnemonia & Bronchitis didn't help either,

I would have returned last week but as some of you may know my late Mother's car (which I have had for 4 1/2 years) was written off after a young male driver didn't stop at the stop sign. This happened on a secondary highway 2 miles north of where we live. It was everything I could do to prevent Michelle getting injured by him hitting the passenger door of our car.

By sheer instinct I was able to control a skidding car to get the front fender to take the hit instead.We got hit on the opposite side of the highway from where he came from & we ended up in the opposite ditch from the way we were travelling.
I don't take damage, theft or things like this very well.

I can safely say though that because of my ability one person or another wasn't killed or injured majorly. As it was the kid wasn't wearing a seatbelt.

It turned out to be a test, that being how will my handling a major predicament without freaking out.

I made some traffic related posts last week that may have looked intense. I am now feeling somewhat back to normal and hope to be okay for a while

I now look forward to meeting as many FTE Moderators as possible at the National Meet in KC.

Dennis

 

It's good to have you back!

 

Ahhhhhh! It's FTE again! Can't imagine this place without Dennis! Welcome home.

 

Welcome Back, I was wondering why you were a 'Post Fiend" instead of 'Administrator"

 

Welcome back Dennis. I am glad that you have survived the events that have come you way. You know what they say, whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

 

Good to have you back I missed you covering my back in the 73-79 forum. There just isn't enough of me to go around in there. I even wanted to make you my co-mod if you weren't coming back to your admin. duties.
Glad to have you back, your info in that forum is priceless. I do appreciate you watching the forum even when you didn't have your Super Powers.
Welcome back buddy,
Jimmy

 

Good to see that you're back in full force Dennis

 

It was not the same without you.

 

It's not the same WITH you - it's BETTER.

Glad you're back among us.

 

As I said in my PM to you yesterday ... welcome back Dennis! I'mm glad things are looking up for you and the forums will be a better place with you back in the saddle.

 

Welcome back Dennis!!!

 

Thanks Everyone.
Today I finally heard from the Insurance company of the guy that hit me.

They asked me what I would like to receive for the Buick.
I told them considering the magnitude of the situation,I wouldn't settle for less that $5000.00 for property damage.

Let's see where this goes now

 

I think everyone gets to a point in live where they think things can only get better. I hope this is point where eveything gets better.
Glad to have you back.

 

we need more people like you in this world. More real men. People that can have the whole world coming down on them but being able to stand there and deal with it. That is a man. Oh yea, welcome back.

 

Yeah DENNIS! My HERO! <img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_22_1.gif' border=0></a>
Hope everything works out good for you. You "DA MAN!"

-Matt