This is my fist test reply jannie. I DO get that restless feeling when I think about my Dad, and the [Pipesmoke] that he had. No scrimshaw, but he is rendered unable to speak or walk now by Parkinson's, but he had an indelibly-etched scribe in my memory much like scrimshaw as my hero as a young boy. Gord was staggeringly absorbing music for me in my troubled teens; first loves etc.; and after ISTAHITH Made of Stone was transfixed by his music and imagery and forever was converted from Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, etc....
so sorry to hear about your father. Be happy to have anyone show me the ropes in this forum,. I have not been active on a computer (despite my profession) since a mountaineering accident followed by car crash and head injury circa 6 years ago. I barely remember chatting in Pentium I days in a Gord room with a few key members some of you Lightheads may know - Wayne Francis, PlumbGuru2, and a wonderful MOM-type lady to me and my family named .....oh boy.... Sharon ? - a lady who tongue-in-cheek was madly in love with Gordon and about the same age. I am staggerred to hear Gordon's medical travails since I was into chatting no later than about 2001 in the above room. She sent me a 6-hour ( ! ) custom compiled VHS of all TV appearances known to her (Sharon, or PLEASE update my damaged memory). Well Jannie heloo from Colorado and please humbly permit my embarrassing first posting. Thanks ! - geodeticman