[Introspective] RE: Facing disaster, a decision: What to save?

[George E. Longoria]

Minor correction.  The fire Juskaitis had to evacuate from was in Colorado
and not part of the southern California inferno.

-GEL

-----Original Message-----
From: George E. Longoria [mailto:george at longoria.com]
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:59 PM
To: petheads at yahoogroups.com; introspective at tcp.com
Subject: Facing disaster, a decision: What to save?


Interesting albeit brief PSB mentioning in VeloNews for any fellow cyclists:
http://www.velonews.com/tech/report/articles/5218.0.html

The article, written by VeloNews technical editor, Andrew Juskaitis,
recounts how his home was threatened by last month's devastating forest
fires in California and he only had an hour to evacuate and even then, had
only a small Volkswagen to cram his belongings into.

"Running back and forth between house and car, it became clear I wasn't
grabbing the "expensive" items (except for my nearly irreplaceable Pet Shop
Boys CD and vinyl collection), but instead the "worthless" memory-laden
items. The toolbox my father gave to me when I first developed an interest
in cycling. My first workstand. The scratched sunglasses I received as an
award from my first mountain bike race. Not worth much on Ebay, but
priceless to me."

As a longtime PSB fan and avid cyclist, the article struck a personal note
as I too wouldn't know which collection of stuff is more valuable to me,
sentimentally much less monetarily.  No, I'm not stating this to get into a
full-on "who's got the biggest and baddest or rarest collection" thread.
Rather, as a gentle reminder to be thankful for what we each individually do
have; be it the complete discography or even just the latest single, two
listservers or one.  Enjoy the passion, enjoy the culture, and let the music
play forever.


-George E. Longoria
 San Antonio, Texas
 www.george.longoria.com

P.S. Andrew, if you get bored with it, can I have your job? :)