Very well said, Pat. One of the crazy things about the new Boards - it has all of your old PMs in it, even if you removed yourself. So on the old Boards, I still had my final PM to Nik as kind of a memorial. But here, all of my old PMs with him are back, including my submissions to his grading contest. I also had forgotten how much stuff I bought from him. And one time I even begged him in a PM to flip me a book he bought on the Boards that I had on my want list. Of course he did. I even found a PM where CGC had rejected him as an SS witness (not just him, they has a moratorium on any new witnesses) and he was kind of ticked off. In my final PM to him, I referred to him as the "Chairman of the Boards." He still is as far as I am concerned. We were not friends, but we were sure friendly. Some of my good friends on here were pretty tight with him and I like to think that I would have been if he had been given a bit more time. RIP to NIk and PsychoJ and everyone that has left us too soon.
well said.