VSarkiss was before my time. I cried when blazar died… He had been trying to find ways to participate here, like keyboard shortcuts for the monastery, through blinding, crippling pain; without ever complaining, just soldiering on and trying to be normal and alive during his final weeks. I have a little Italian and I was always embarrassed to just try with him though we chatted a bit in the CB and he was perfectly friendly at all times; a genuinely nice person. I regretted not becoming friends. It’s part of why I have been open to making friends with others, like LanX and erix. I was also quite sad to hear about almut but didn’t know her as well, just her posts and expertise.
Kudos to OP. It’s a caring and considerate position to take.
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Thank you for posting this. I always enjoy your curated slices of PM history. Often one thing leads to another and I end up browsing into some new area of learning, or as in this case, becoming acquainted with monks of yesteryear, and sometimes wandering even further afield, as today, via Bill Harp's obit, which led me to a long writeup about the Perl Whirl and the First Heyday of Perl circa the change of the millenium, which was a nice trip down memory lane.
The way forward always starts with a minimal test.
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