Ouch! No time off at Christmas, even? Maybe they need a few good snowstorms to give you a bit of a respite!?**bg** Of course, snow in Guam would mean a major shift of the Earth's axis or somesuch, so... just think, you'll be done with all of it, soon, right (close to done in a year?) And then, able to command a proper salary as a prof with more paper to his name. Or, am I remembering wrongly?:-)