Cruz, thank you for your kind response. I do not know the details, but I do know Dave from his posts on Mudcat and a few messages back and forth now and then. He is a quality person. He has always been the epitome of good humoUr, fellowship, support to those who need it when they need it, and he is someone I wish I was more like. He is a good man, but sometimes even good men get beaten down by some of the stuff that gets said on Mudcat.

I have never had the pleasure of meeting him. I hope I do someday, because I like people of character, even though--or maybe even especially because I'm not always like that myself. Folks like him are the unstated reminder that it takes good poeple to make a good world--even within the microcosm that is Mudcat. Your response to me lets me know you are much like that, too.

Dave, if must needs, take a week off. But please stick around.