Happy Birthday Aural Moon.

[mossy]

Yes, Happy Birthday Moon!

My family accept it as important in my life, my friends finally understand what it's all about, and it is my background sanity at work. I've met the dearest people to me, some in 3D, some still virtually.

It will be 4 years in November since I stumbled upon it on the net. On that day kw was in shout, along with dear poda, steady stan and the spaz. Along the way we've grown in number, Avian built a new site, Jim took over the reins and packs new music on at an alarming rate, Dr. Dot has sorted many techie probs and made us laugh while he's doing it, and VAX has kindly undertaken the enormous task of keeping us afloat day to day with the server, the "watching", the improvements, Theme Thursday and all the other things that crop up.

We can't forget the Moonies who give us amazing shows, consistently - Rick, Moses, Cozy, Sean. Thank you. Even when your schedules busy, you bring it. Also our Polish Prince, wojtek, who organizes the annual poll at the end of the year. And Mortis, the Danish Cricket Meister who appears to spend hours pouring over prog news to bring us the latest and most interesting stuff. Last but never least, keithiew, the Birthday Bugle, who reminds us of these special events because that's just how he is (and mortis and roger from VT. who fill in the gaps when kw's doing his sidings tour)

The Moon is a special place of friendship, bankruptcy and aural fixation. I'm happy to be a part of it. A toast to you, Moonies. Here's to another good year on the Moon.

mossy