"1) I still have yet to hear from a number of usual suspects. If you are certain you CAN participate or are certain you CANNOT participate, please contact me with all due haste. Especially disconcerting is that I have yet to hear from last year's Master of Sausages, Surly Dave. Could anyone with access to him please deliver the proverbial "boot" up his rhetorical "rectum" and have him get in touch with me."
Boot received.
