Ric -

I want to extend my best wishes for whatever you're up to next. It would have been great to get together and roast and toast you as you finish up. The queue at the microphone would be impressive, I know.

I always did and continue to appreciate your direct and colourful assessments of people and issues ... always fun, and of particular value to me as you handed the ADA job off to me in January 1999. Actually, at the time, you gave me a ceremonial shovel ... a key implement of the office, you suggested. Prescient, that.

Thanks for your friendship over the years. All the best -

David