Reef's Ruminations

When the now Tournament Director cobbled together a surprise and somewhat impromptu weekend of golf, food, drink & a (still extant) trophy in March of 1997, there was more concern that someone would pull a muscle than there was thought that it would be the beginning of a running joke that would last, to date, XVI years. Reef & Gordon had not seen each other since June of 1978 when the three denizens stumbled out of the building at 300 North Derr Drive, Lewisburg, PA 17837 - "The Apartment" - and saw the sun for the first time in 2 years.

Gordon headed to the University of Hawaii where he would speed through his PhD in a mere 13 years; Reef fled back to NJ from where it took him the better part of 11 years to escape and Mitch returned to LI where he began a con involving an ersatz sport that lasted for 10 years before the fraud was exposed and he was forced to flee to FL. To their mutual dismay, Mitch had stayed in touch with both Reef and Gordon over those 20 years and had been attempting to reune the 3 Apartment inhabitants for several seasons prior to the portentous weekend in '97.

Now, XVI years on, with nearly every utterance and movement stored in gigabytes of files on a phalanx of computers at AI HQ, comes an historical perspective as unexpected as it is ludicrous. Reef, co-founder of The Apartment, rambling raconteur and hysterical, if not historical, historian, has penned a series of Ruminations on The AI and its participants that will give all who come to them pause for reflection and a short nap.

AI Publishing is proud to offer the exclusive first look at these Ruminations in a series of installments to be released over the course of the next several weeks. It is possible that the last serialization that merited such anticipation was that of "A Tale of Two Cities" published in All The Year Round in Spring of 1859. Or, as Mr. Dickens might have said, possibly not.