I had the opportunity to visit with Dr. Neil Jones, who is a University Professor at the University of California Los Angeles and Past President of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. He had come to San Francisco to give a series of lectures at the Bay Area Hand Club and University of California San Francisco Orthopedic Surgery Grand Rounds. Dr. Jones and I go back over 30 years, when he was a Hand Surgery Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital, and I was on the Hand Service as a resident. Since then we have had many interactions over the decades, and it was a pleasure to get together with him once more and attend one of his outstanding lectures.