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[RC] tevis waiting list/Life's short - rides2farPS. Come on SE riders, next year we attack the OD, and then the Tevis. Who wants to be with Marie and Me....and I think Roger Barrett. Angie???? Want to ride Aries at the Tevis??? Ahh, there are SO many variables that could kill a plan between now and then but let's just say...if Aries is good, I'm good, and the world's still turning, life's short and we gotta live so why not? On a serious note. I had a student who was an *amazing* skater...as in one of those kids who goes flying down the sidewalk, leaps up, rides the handrail, leaps across to the other hand rail on the other side, turns a few times and jumps off the side of the retainer wall the handrail was above and lands skating backwards 1 story down. He was also a movie maker...carried a camera everywhere, filmed other skaters and had them film him. He won a city wide movie contest last year. He also taught me how to use a movie making program so his number is at the top of my cellphone directory for tech help. May 23 he was on the 5th floor of an abandoned building taking photos with a new camera and stepped onto a piece of corrugated fiberglass roofing laying on the floor, only it wasn't laying on the floor it was laying over a 5 story abandoned elevator shaft. He fell five stories and landed on some boards which kept him from going down to the basement. He had a compound fracture of the femur but otherwise hardly had a scratch on him. However, he has been in a coma for 32 days now. He'll never walk again, can only hope he's not paralized from the neck down. Crushed his C-5 which was replaced with metal and totally dislocated a lower vertabrae which is now braced with a rod. All these years I've been on his case about how dangerous his *skating* was, and he gets hurt taking pictures! I watched a video of him today doing all those amazing things, then read the update on the website they set up for him describing the tremendous news that he licked a lollipop on command yesterday. The moral is, live while you can. Every day's a gift. Asher and I had really hit it off because we both had hobbies we were obsessed with. He was more like us than most. Prayer is a huge part of Asher's recovery effort and I invite any of you who have the urge to visit http://asher.chattablogs.com Asher's dad has been very specific in his request for prayer each day and it's one of the best uses of the net I've come across so far. Thanks, Angie =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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