Now the trouble starts. Some of us actually found out about this website and decided we should respond. Which means the rest of you are now faced with a dilemma. Let's call it the "Jerry Garcia" syndrome.

What if you became a success at gathering people together, and then took a look around at who you were collecting and decided, "I don't know if I want to be in the same room with these people." Well, Jerry handled it so welcome to the Reunion of the Millennium.

Just in case you were beginning to believe you might have attained some semblance of credibility, take a look at some of the comments we are getting back from the mailing list:

• Sometimes I actually like this middle age stuff. (This classmate rides a Harley through the Santa Cruz mountains!)
• Current odds are running 8 to 5 against Chris Cole showing up. (Don's taking Chris and the points)
• I chatted with AC the other day. (Now there's a frightening thought)
• Bob seems to want to keep this whole affair under wraps as every email he sends is closed with the following:

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(Some of us take a more laissez faire approach to this whole thing)

• As we embark on this frivolous fantasy of fun and frolic (Quick, alliteration or assonance? Rick, can you take it? bzzzz, no, Barbara?) Based on his last email, Don is in Seattle as we speak, en-mired in a violent World Trade Organization demonstration which must seem like a surreal flashback.

"What a long, strange trip it's been".

Get on the email mailing list and the bulletin board .

Or again, if you really just need to rip into somebody: