<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">You have a permanent seat here,welcome back Dave!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">Joe Golden</div><div id="new_signature" dir="auto"><br><div><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Sent from my Android device. Please excuse my brevity and typos.</span></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Dave Vick via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> </div><div>Date: 8/2/23 7:36 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: Stagecraft Mail List <stagecraft@theatrical.net> </div><div>Cc: Dave Vick <dave.vick@gmail.com> </div><div>Subject: [SML] [no subject] </div><div><br></div></div>Um, hi. Remember me? It's been a minute... Okay, actually it's been<br>around 22 months, but you know what I mean.<br><br>I was having lunch the other week with an old friend who's the Asst.<br>House Manager of my old theatre, the Wharton Center at MSU (and a<br>delightful young lady*, but that's another story), and it got me to<br>thinking about how much I'd been unconsciously missing the backstage<br>community. Then I got in a Zoom call with Kristi (among others) and<br>the unconscious missing became extremely conscious missing. I'm NOT<br>returning to work onstage; it turns out I actually like bus driving -<br>hey, I never said I was sane - and the few times I did go back onstage<br>in the past year or so were.... Umm... Weird. But it's a process.<br><br>So here I am, hat in hand. It feels like I've healed up enough from<br>the utter shyte that drove me out of the Craft two years ago-ish that<br>I can at least come back to the Tavern, if y'all will have me back.<br>I'll just curl up in the corner over here; don't mind me. Not sure<br>who's barkeeping these days, but if you need some glasses washed, or<br>anything else y'all need, lemme know.<br><br><br>* Younger than me, anyway...<br>-- <br>-DV<br>(Yeah; *That* Guy)<br><br>____________________________________________________________<br>For list information see <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/><br>Stagecraft mailing list<br>Stagecraft@theatrical.net<br>http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net<br></body></html>