“Ditto!”

Cf. A List of FlyerTalk Members You Have Already Met in Person, Post #93.

My life sentence was commuted last year after 19 years for good behavior. As with my final four years in perceived (or invoked) solitary confinement, I'm still not flying much anymore, though, and am happily living a mostly car-free lifestyle (with the occasional rental to visit places like RNO, SMF, FAT, BFL, SAN, MRY, Benicia, Muir Woods, Limantour Beach, and Yosemite) with my wife and our two [very] late-teenage sons -- one a senior at the local public high school, the other off to study structural engineering at UCSD. In-state tuition imposes its own conditions of “supervised release” including permissible parental residence.

I suppose until year-end my life membership in the CO Presidents Club will still get me and a couple of guests “free” drinks at the land-side SFO CO lounge, disregarding tips, $20+ round-trip BART fare, and my time. Yet very many of you (apologies or credit to the originator “70 * 7” for my title above) long-time FlyerTalkers would most certainly be worth the latter!

I no longer have lack of propinquity as an excuse.