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Does anyone know if Bruce (OcalaFLGuy) is okay? He hasn't been posting much or reading/responding to PMs. I'm concerned.

Life's too short to use crappy pens.  -carlos.q

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I had the same question.

Baptiste knew how to make a short job long

For love of it. And yet not waste time either.

Robert Frost

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I miss him, and Ethernautrix, and Beak, they always return, I hope so.

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Yeah, I had noticed that recently as well -- I really hope Bruce is okay.

He's the guy who helped me scope out Parker 51s on Ebay when I decided I had to have on one -- and since then, he's the guy I send people to when they get the 51 bug, um, urge....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Usually just after Bruce disappears someone important in a far away country disappears. Then Bruce reappears.

 

Probably no connection.

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Hope Bruce is Ok. He is a wonderful source of info and always willing to help. He helped me navigate ebay and sniping a while back.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized. -- Albert Einstein

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I hope he is ok. He helped me out a while back and his posts are always honest and insightful.

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I had noticed he was conspicuously absent recently. Like others posting in this thread, hope he is doing well and just very busy.

 

While I didn't go out seeking his advice necessarily (at least via PM), I always got something from things he posted.

Brad

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind" - Rudyard Kipling
"None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try." - Mark Twain

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Bruce has given me advice on a number of projects. I was just this week considering to bug him again. I hope all is well.

 

Looking for a black SJ Transitional Esterbrook Pen. (It's smaller than an sj)

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Usually just after Bruce disappears someone important in a far away country disappears. Then Bruce reappears.

 

Probably no connection.

 

 

Like a head of state or other higher-up in a government?

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He may be just taking a sabbatical from FPN. We all need a break sometime.

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No one knows?

 

Looking for a black SJ Transitional Esterbrook Pen. (It's smaller than an sj)

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So many of us were helped selflessly by Bruce. Did no one get beyond emails? If you got something in the mail from him, did it have an address you could send a "how are you" note?

 

Looking for a black SJ Transitional Esterbrook Pen. (It's smaller than an sj)

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So many of us were helped selflessly by Bruce. Did no one get beyond emails? If you got something in the mail from him, did it have an address you could send a "how are you" note?

I do have his address but not here with me.

Maybe he's done what a lot of the original, experienced & very knowledgable FPN members have done. Decided that the forum has become less of a site for a group of tight-knit, technical, experienced pen users, sharing specialised knowledge, and more a lighter-weight "what shall I buy next for my second pen" site, more chatty & commercialised, geared towards occasional FP users & new starters. Nothing wrong in that per se, but not a site where the "old-timers" feel at home. I miss those guys *sigh*.

Verba volant, scripta manent

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He's still active on Facebook. Might try him there.

"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" Patrick Henry

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And Ethernautrix, and Fuddlestack, and Beak, it looks depression its all over the world, I am prying for them.

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