A visit with a new old friend

For the past few weeks, we've been on the east coast in the Washington, DC, area.

While Beth and Faith (our daughter) hit the malls with Beth's sister and niece, I took a short drive up to south Jersey to meet Doug Thomson.

Doug is a FoxPro programmer who wrote a nice compression utility that I downloaded some time ago that drives the "pack and go" utility and the "live update" utility. He's been a big help in a lot of the programming for some of the recent program updates.

He's also the genius behind the advanced filtering routines that were recently added to the program. He programmed them far better than I would have ever been able to.

So, anyway, I drove up and took this guy out to lunch, and we had a good time getting personally acquainted, having only conversed via e-mail.

Doug's also working on an e-mail utility which I'm hoping will be the engine that talkes to e-mail servers in the new personalize bulk emailing routine that I've been working on.

Here's a pic of Doug, his wife, and their pup Sheba (who had grown a good bit when I was there.