Dan Rice-Cote:  

Well now ... I haven't stopped by here for quite some time. I've been lately thinking about how contact-lenses weren't around in our school days - neither were slip-in feminine products - nor were there many white afros compared to what would come around just 5 years later. Mash wasn't a series, SNL didn't exist, All In The Family was barely on the drawing board. Kinda funny how much changed and how much still hasn't. Me? back in Texas after a year in the Rockies. Keep meaning to move up to Ohio for a while but just don't seem able to get that done. Talk about Northern California too but hain't got that done neither! Retired the end of last year. Have been back in college a couple of years - Dean's list too ... don't know where that came from. I was upper-third at MF but barely a C student in college the first time, all those years ago. I keep being amazed at how many people I graduated with that I didn't know. Keep being surprised at how many people stayed around there while I took off for the sky and ocean and mountains and deserts and woods. It's kinda exotic being from everywhere but it's also like never having had a home even though I coulda if I would have stayed ... but I couldn't stay ... I grew Teflon on the soles of my feet when I left for college ... and that's how it has been. In the last dozen or so years since I came online and first signed up with this site, I still have seen no clue as to where a few of my old friends went or what happened to them. They're not on facebook or the other sites. I suppose they just haven't made it to the cyber-world yet or maybe ... maybe ... aw heck, maybe I'll just have to wait to see them all again. Life is like that - always digging around to make sure we have the right tickets for the next trip or two. So, I keep coming in here and adding things every few years. Guess that means I'll be back. 45th reunion coming and a personal promise to make the 50th. Hang on - I'll see y'all there. Peace & Love my friends. Cool - I get to write more without renewing. What a deal! So - I faintly recall being in Oregon. That all changed one December day - okay - actually, one October day but it took 6 weeks to look at that life point-blank and turn the key in the ignition. I am now a freaking Texan!! Can't believe that turn! Never would've stepped foot in Texas again but God Himself slammed me here like an old pair of dice slammed against a wall - like pitching quarters against the hallway walls in school - like slam-dunking a giraffe thru a laundry-basket. And here I am ... Hee-Yup, 10/4, Tell You Whut! Playing some keyboards and often thinking about getting a job ... but feel just a little lucky that there aren't any in this little coastal "burg" north of Corpus Christi. I'll feel that way until I get a job, take on a bigger keyboard gig or my Oregon unemployment runs out ... whichever ... it's all good. Well, I know Alan Wilson is down here somewhere - by Houston last I knew ... before Katrina or Ike ... and I have a ladyfriend who visits me from Houston every now and then - when she needs her brain polished by a Master (seems all I'm good for anymore is a little piano-playing and a little brain-polishing!) I see there's a reunion coming. Good God!! 40 Years!! I'm holding out for the good one - the 50 year ... when every chick there will be single and all the muscle-bound boys got old and fat ... and maybe I'll be able to take those fingers of mine that I'll have left and play a love song to each and every one of you - just for the memories. Note: I have NO idea what our fight song or any of t...Expand for more