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Good post Rusty - although you know Bill longer than most of us I think we know how you feel and feel the same.

Andreas
 
Rusty said:
His legacy lives on in the Himalayan imports archives here on Bladeforum. Check them out back when he was more actively posting, they are a real treat.
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I have read many of the old threads, and they are fun and enlightening to read. Seems like Uncle Bill was online constantly and the forum was an even more welcoming place than it is now because of it.

N.
 
The forum was smaller then and Bill and I remembered stuff about everyone, or at least we tried. Maybe three years back we just couldn't keep up with it, and got overwhelmed. Then, if someone didn't post for a while, we noticed and asked about it. ( Munk's seemed to have taken that job over - and does it well. And others fill in the gaps in other ways, quietly but to keep the spirit Bill brought alive. If I tried to list them all I'd leave someone out. They are all part of keeping this place something like Bill made it. )

And yes, when he posted regularly the forum was a better place for it. More of a family.
 
Rusty said:
The forum was smaller then and Bill and I remembered stuff about everyone, or at least we tried. Maybe three years back we just couldn't keep up with it, and got overwhelmed. Then, if someone didn't post for a while, we noticed and asked about it. ( Munk's seemed to have taken that job over - and does it well. And others fill in the gaps in other ways, quietly but to keep the spirit Bill brought alive. If I tried to list them all I'd leave someone out. They are all part of keeping this place something like Bill made it. )

And yes, when he posted regularly the forum was a better place for it. More of a family.
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Well, then that makes good sense. Thank God for those folks. And based on that history I think it would please Uncle Bill if we each always strived to reach for that ideal of a family. Maybe not always attain it, but to do our best to try for it by eliminating pettiness and pre-judgment and personal biases from our postings and interactions with each other, and always give the other guy the benefit of the doubt. (?)

That would be something special to always keep as our goal.

Norm
 
Svashtar said:
Well, then that makes good sense. Thank God for those folks. And based on that history I think it would please Uncle Bill if we each always strived to reach for that ideal of a family. Maybe not always attain it, but to do our best to try for it by eliminating pettiness and pre-judgment and personal biases from our postings and interactions with each other, and always give the other guy the benefit of the doubt. (?)

That would be something special to always keep as our goal.

Norm
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That doesn't mean we have to give up sharking though, does it? :)
 
Knowing that this sorry world could still have someone like Bill Martino in it, even for far too short a time, gives some comfort to the rest of us.

When he leaves us, may he escape all illusion and achieve perfect peace and harmony.
 
Bill,
It is as so many before me have said so well. You have been the glue that held us together during bad times. I appreciate the great example you and many others have given to me and us all. Live large, Live well and when the day comes to go, realize that YOU HAVE MADE A DIFFERANCE!!
To touch so many in the brief time we have been together is a wonderful thing. I, for one will not waste the great example I have been given.
Be well, all of you, my brothers and sisters.
 
Rusty, and all those who responded here you have my sincere thanks. I am humbled by all the kind words and am not sure I deserve all of them. I hope this forum rolls on long after I am gone. I tried to make it into a good place, something better and bigger than the norm and I can tell that I have which is most comforting to me. Rusty will find a helper when he gets too old to do the job and if he should go suddenly which would be my wish for him then simply elect a couple of moderators from your ranks. There are several here who are qualified candidates.

I'm down to about 130 pounds and drifting lower. No appetite and no ability to have BMs. It takes several enemas to get that job done. Next week I'll ask the surgeon to stick a feed tube in me so I can nourish myself artificially and I'll also ask him to install a $hit bag. Of course, this is a stop gap fix and not a way to live. If I can't get some semblance of functionality then it's stop all treatment and call my friend, nurse Kim, who is a leader in the St. Mary's Hospice care system here in Reno.

Very difficult to escape the pain. The morphine seems to have lost its ability to stop the pain so I have to overdose enough to knock myself out in order to escape the pain so that's what I've been doing. Hell of a way to spend your day.
 
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