After great suggestions from all of you, 12 Piece Bucket has archived and categorized more than 800 of Yoda's posts into relevant threads organized into sub-forums by chapter from The Golfing Machine®.
12 Piece poured through more than 2,000 posts (including duplicates posted on three sites) to distill these nuggets during this categorization process! We all can't thank you enough!!
(thanks again, Bucket! )
I'll never forget the moment when Randy Sparks, a.k.a. as golfingrandy on this and www.chuckevansgolf.com, presented me with the first three months of my posts. It was April 2004 over dinner with our wives and Chuck Evans in Destin, Florida. The posts were beautifully arranged by subject in a fully-tabbed, three-inch thick binder he dubbed "Da Book." What a gift. Thank you, my friend.
I had done my best to share the wisdom of Homer Kelley and was proud of the work. And when Randy showed me the end result of my day-by-day-by-day effort, I knew that something had to be done to preserve the information that, inspired by the questions of my fellow Forum members, I had spent hundreds of hours putting down. It was a legacy born of my personal experience with Homer, a privilege enjoyed by only a few, and one that I was uniquely positioned to share.
Over the next 18 months, hundreds more posts followed. When we established LynnBlakeGolf.com last year, we put everything in one place and then added search capability. But the demand was there for more. Our readers asked for better organization and deserved it.
What to do?
Last month, in a telephone conversation following his whirlwind tour to Atlanta, Bucket casually asked me if there was anything he could do to help the site.
I told him, "Thanks, Colonel, but you're already doing enough with your 'Dusted and Fried' column."
"No, seriously", said he, "I want to help."
"Well, there is this nagging problem of the archives. We need an organized 'library' of some kind. I have no idea what to do or how to organize it. Maybe you could get some guys on the site, divide up the work and help me solve this problem."
"Leave it to me. I'll get it done, and I'll learn a lot."
Three weeks later is now.
And now it is done.
I still can't believe it.
Thanks, Rich. In the words of the caddy to Bobby Jones at St. Andrews:
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