Where on Earth is Stuart Fletcher?

I wrote a blog entry quite a while back on Stuart Fletcher. The more famous of the Stuart Fletchers is from the UK. He used to play the bass for a band called The Seahorses. The less famous musician used to play for a band called The Sorts, located in DC.

Sometime during this period, Stuart decided to come back to school and finish up a degree, perhaps to the delight of his parents. He graduated with a 4.0 and looming on the horizon was graduate school. After all, if you show a strong academic inclination, why not do more of it in graduate school.

But that would mean, presumably, giving up a life of music, which had been, up until his academic foray, Stuart's focus in life.

For a while, Stuart disappeared, at least, from public, Google-able sight. I had read that he had joined the tour of another band, though mostly for logistics, and then afterwards, nothing. Which doesn't really mean nothing, but just means that no news on the Web that was readily accessible made it my way

Then, recently, a few weeks back, Stuart's name surfaced again. This time, with a band called The Sea Navy. Stuart had joined this band whose lead was originally in Boston, but had moved out west. Stuart's family is out in Washington state, so indeed, he appears to have made one big decision in his life, which is to leave the band that presumably was his home for some number of years, as he lived in DC.

Has Stuart given up on his academic career? Who knows? Nearby is the well-funded University of Washington, which has a reputable graduate school in computer science. It's certainly possible to return to school there.

So far, this entry may seem out of the blue, and perhaps it is indeed, out of the blue.

But at least, one Mr. Stuart Fletcher is no longer among the missing, missing from the ever-seeing eye that is Google.