Who left the lights on?

[tomstevenson]

Hi Jackie

Following your mention of cookies, I deleted them, then reset. Now the lights are behaving correctly. Thank you.

I met Jerry only once, at this year's NWIWC, a year after he dragooned me into Jerry's Kids (seemed to me that it was an honour to be one, not that you had any choice in the matter!). The obstacles I had to surmount to get to that competition included a snowstorm in New York cancelling flights for almost two days; fogged in at Traverse City; a drive to Detroit to avoid being fogged in a second day; sitting on the tarmac for 3 hours while one of the plane's engines was repaired, thus missing another rerouting connection ..... The number of times I thought to myself "Right, if they don't do this or that, I'm turning around and going home" except that for every obstacle a solution was found. I even made the airport authorities do the one thing they never do: locate my luggage after several reroutings so that I could physically see it correctly labelled before I flew across continental America. Something or someone was determined that I meet Jerry a few weeks before he died and the crazy thing is I hardly knew him, yet I still miss him. The 2002 edition of my fizz guide due out this October is dedicated to Jerry.

Tom