Listing this as Off Topic just to cover myself… People have changes in their lifestyles… family, school, jobs, travel, lack of internet access, other hobby interests, etc. I was just pondering, who can you think of who no longer posts here (for whatever reason) that you may miss by there absence?
I miss Gary. Not seen hide nor hair of him on the Forum since April.
Mick Woodruff seems to post exceedingly rarely,if at all,these days.
There has also been no new material on his own website for a while now.
Nobody.
CRAB.
I miss Bloo!
He hasn’t posted since: 03 Jul 2003 13:47. Maybe it’s just the holiday or perhaps he is ‘gone with the wind’.
I’m going to wait a bit longer and then call out search and rescue and the K-9 squad!
But first… a nap! 
Alan
Is Andrea (Aderyn) still around?
Steve
Hundreds of people have passed through!
Don’t worry about Mick, he’s quite allright… just devoting his attention to personal interests that are more important than whistles. 
I miss his postings too though… I’ve learned a lot from his advice, and also received a lot of encouragement from him along the way.
Mick always went above and beyond what most people would do to help a struggling beginner, and I owe him my deepest gratitude.
Oh, and even if his playing style might not meet with the approval of some of the more hardcore traditionalists around here… you’ve got to admit that he’s extremely talented, and that there’s an inspiring and almost magical quality conveyed through his music.
bill “serpent” whedon doesn’t post so much anymore now that he’s busy with his whistle-making operation…
A haiku for them:
the wind, passing clouds;
where are the departed? now,
a keening: whistles
(edited to insert poetically strategic comma)
I have also been missing Serpie-Pie and I have been wondering where Kim from Tulsa has gone to. 
Oh yeah, Today is my 1st Chiffyfippleversary!
Cheers
Kathy 
Not to mention the more than four hundred people who have registered but never made a single post. Where are they? Sometimes the thought crosses my mind wondering if any of these people joined and then something awful happend… serious injury, death, etc… that prevented them from ever posting. Or that someday if the board stays around, some who are regular posters are eventually going to age and pass on, or some accident will happen. How long will it be before their absense is noted and what happend to them is learned? A day? A week? A year? Sad thought. A tad bit morbid? I guess. Perhaps I just think too much. 
On a brighter note… Happy Chiffiversary Kathy!
Sara
Actually I did just think of someone I miss, Wandering Whistler. I liked him a lot. He was always there for the newbies like me, and he had a wealth of experience with many different whistles. He got run out of here by the crabbier types who followed him out the door shortly after he left, those who didn’t put up a website with the sheet music for many different tunes like he did.
Danceswithtrout Nancy M. and Celtic Warrior.
Sniff.
Yes, Daniel the Celtic Warrior. He was only on the previous incarnation of the board, I think.
I was also wondering what happened to Kim in Tulsa.
And Cranberry. Cranberry rocked.
I know it sounds a bit morbid, but … I have a note of online people for my family to contact in case of the awful happening. I have friendships online that are are valid and important to me as anything offline, and it worries me to think people might just be left hanging.
It was discussed in another community I belong to, and it is a morbid subject, but also inevitable - planning is always good.
However, I know how offline life can catch up all the free hours, and I’m thinking all the people named above are just having too much whistlin’ fun to have time to post here.
I’ve been here. I’m in the middle of moving and I’m staying at three different places an only one has a computer so when I do get to come here I only have time to read private messages and a couple of posts then I have to go. Plus I’ve had about five thousand hours of filling out job applications and such so my time is eaten away easily.
I wouldn’t just leave out of the blue, I’d make a big occasion out of it and make people send me goodbye presents and stuff.
I’ll never forget whatizname. 
I miss MikeR who left some months ago after a remark of his was censored. Whilst I accept the need for policing by those who own the board—we are their guests—I do think the misunderstanding that led to Mike leaving was unfortunate.