To all of my hobby friends let me thank you all for another wonderful year of variety, excitement, comraderie, and friendship.  

To those who have harmed me or done me wrong, thank you for the lessons.  Without them we cannot grow even though they may seem painful at the time.  I wish to you that you find peace and contentment so you will have no need to cause others anything else.

I of course cherish all of my old friends and have made it a tradition to choose the most impotant new man and woman that I have met since last Thanksgiving as Noah's most influential new people of 2002.  This year they are both people I have met through the hobby and I want to thank both of you sincerely for the warmth and caring frindship you have added to my life.

May your troubles and tribulations dissolve and your next Thanksgiving find each and every one of you with even more great life expreiences, and all the better for it.

Serving ladies and gentlemen, I am and remain

Noah of Minnesota