Various Rants and Such

12/07/01 - Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, I guess I only seem to update these rants around the holidays. Well, I am now officially writting stories for an online web newspaper. Don't get all excited yet, it's not real news, but it is fun to do. Check it out at Spoof Kingdom and see what ya think, I do the news section. This is our first attempt at anything like this so it may not be perfect yet, but were working on it. News is pretty boring, the Taliban are running and giving up....big surprise there. Baseball lost millions last year in revenue....maybe thats because the players are paid too much money to play a GAME........A GAME.......and no one cares anymore because the game sucks so bad. You want to disband a team, get rid of the freakin Yankees', that would shake things up, then other teams might be able to have a chance. Jeff Gordon won his 4th Winston Cup title in Nascar, good for him, just wish it was someone else, like Ricky Rudd or Sterling Marlin. Jessika has started making here own web page, it's a work in progress, check it out here. Jeff, Andrea, Anna and Jen will all be spending Christmas at our house this year, it should be a grand ole time.

11/22/01 - It's Thanksgiving! I heard on the news the other day that the leader of the Taliban (or one of their spokesman) has said the US should forget about the WTC and think about the lives being lost in our attack on Afghanistan. Forget the WTC? What are they, stupid? A terrorist faction, supported by the Taliban, hijacks 4 planes, destroys the WTC buildings and damages the Pentagon, killing thousands of Americans and non-Americans alike and they just want us to forget.......no f***ing way!!! If we (the US) happen to do something in the world that offends the terrorists, like supporting Israel or something, they make it their rallying cry for years and years, using it to justify their attacks on us and our interests. Seems a bit ironic but it makes me stinking mad!!! They wanted this "holy war", they proclaimed it, they are ready to die in battle to met their maker, now that they are losing they want to turn it all around and make the US seem like we caused it all! The US seems to be the only country that we are damned if we do and damned if we don't. There is almost no situation that occurs in this world that another country asks for the US for help and if we help, we piss another country off but if we don't help, we are evil and heartless. Why not ask Russia for help, or the UK, the US is not the only SuperPower in this world, although we are the best. I don't know of any decent country in this world who condemns the coalitions attack on Afghanistan, even Libya said they supported it before we attacked.....LIBYA! What does that say.......and who cares about Iraq any more, just nuke Sadaam and take his oil.

10/28/01 - I've been working on my car site a bit lately. I've decided to re-scan all the car pics that I have of the Charger and Neon. I'm making them bigger, although the pics I took with my digital camera don't look that great when they are enlarged.....oh well, ya get what 'cha paid for!!! Since Allaire, the company that makes Homesite, the HTML program I use, merged with Macromedia, I have been waiting for an update or newer version of Homesite to come out. Well, the finally released Homesite 5 and although it's almost the same as 4.5.2, it has some minor changes here and there that add up to a nice improvement. One update that has helped me out alot at work is in the Spell Checker. There is an option that you can tell the program to ignore words with numbers in it. This may not sound like much of a big deal but for me, it's great! All our item numbers have letters and numbers in it so when I spell check to have it automatically skip those is a time saver. It's the little things for me. One of the greatest Nascar races was on last weekend, Talladega!!!! It's a 2.66 mile race track where they run flat out the whole race, which equates to about 40 cars moving at 190 miles an hour in a pack fighting for position. To me, thats racing, cars close together, fighting for every inch! If I wanted to see one car drive away and never be caught, I may as well watch F1. It seems like CART may be heading for some trouble. They recently announced that by 2003, I believe, they are going to switch to non-turbo engines. With this announcement, Honda, a primary engine maker for the series, announced it would not be making those engines and thus leaving the series. Some teams have already decided to leave CART for the IRL, which already uses non-turbo engines. The next year or two should be interesting. I say racing leagues and turbo's don't mix. I don't think even F1 uses turbo's anymore, normally aspirated engines are a much better show of technical abilities of the crews.

10/09/01 - Well, I got ENGAGED this weekend!!!!! On Saturday morning I asked Jess to marry me and she said yes, it was the greatest moment in my life. We are not planning to actually get married until maybe Spring of 2003, because she has to move up here next year and get settled and stuff like that. I'm going to add pictures to the site once I get them of us and the ring. It's a 1.01 carrot diamond but I got a good deal on it. There is plenty of other news right now, us bombing Afghanistan, the Kursk has finally been raised and is on it's way to dock, etc, etc.......but I don't care, I'm ENGAGED!!!!!!!

09/16/01 - Well, another tragedy has befallen the racing world. Yesterday, at the American Memorial 500, a CART race run in Germany, Alex Zanardi was involved in a horrible crash that left him in the hospital and both his legs amputated above the knee! He was leading the race with 12 laps left when he came in for a pit stop. While leaving the pits, he lost control of the car getting up to speed, crossed over onto the track of cars moving at speed, about 200 miles an hour, and after one missed him, Alex Tagliani hit his drivers side front at full speed, tearing both cars to pieces. Even though his legs were amputated, he is still alive, which is a miracle if you watch the crash, it's horrible. With all the events going on this year, the death and tragedy, you wonder how we, as humans, can go on. But, this is life I suppose.

09/15/01 - Here's something interesting that was e-mailed to me the other day: What follows is the full text of his trenchant remarks as printed in the Congressional Record: "This Canadian thinks it is time to speak up for the Americans as the most generous and possibly the least appreciated people on all the earth. Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. None of these countries is today paying even the interest on its remaining debts to the United States. When France was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up,and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. When earthquakes hit distant cities, it is the United States that hurries in to help. This spring, 59 American communities were flattened by tornadoes. Nobody helped. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Policy pumped billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent, warmongering Americans. I'd like to see just one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplane. Does any other country in the world have a plane to equal the Boeing Jumbo Jet, the Lockheed Tri-Star, or the Douglas DC10? If so, why don't they fly them? Why do all the International lines except Russia fly American Planes? Why does no other land on earth even consider putting a man or woman on the moon? You talk about Japanese technocracy, and you get radios. You talk about German technocracy, and you get automobiles. You talk about American technocracy, and you find men on the moon -not once, but several times - and safely home again. You talk about scandals, and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everybody to look at. Even their draft-dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets,and most of them, unless they are breaking Canadian laws, are getting American dollars from ma and pa at home to spend here. When the railways of France, Germany and India were breaking down through age, it was the Americans who rebuilt them. When the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central went broke, nobody loaned them an old caboose. Both are still broke. I can name you 5000 times when the Americans raced to the help of other people in trouble. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake. Our neighbors have faced it alone, and I'm one Canadian who is damned tired of hearing them get kicked around. They will come out of this thing with their flag high. And when they do, they are entitled to thumb their nose at the lands that are gloating over their present troubles. I hope Canada is not one of those."

09/13/01 - September 11, 2001 Terrorists hijack four planes, 757's and 767's, crashing one into each of the World Trade Center towers and one into the Pentagon. The fourth crashed in PA, probably because the passengers fought back and the plane went out of control. Both World Trade Center Towers COLLAPSE! Thousands are feared dead and thousands more are injured. The nations in shock but, being the nation we are, pulling together to show our support for those lost. Almost all events, sporting, TV, movie, Emmy's, have been postponed. The NASCAR race I was to go to in NH this weekend is cancelled and will now run on Nov 23, the day after Thanksgiving. Now, working in retail and this being the busiest day of the year, it will be interesting to see if I can get it off and go or not. I personally think that once the people are found who were behind this, most think it's Osama Bin Laden, they should be hunted down like dogs and made to face what they have sown. If they find out it was backed by some government, we should nuke that country back into the stone age! I have heard that an eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind, but this is too much! Well, guess that's it, I may have more this weekend.

09/08/01 - Well, what a month is has been and what a Oct. it's gonna be! First, Jess was here for almost a week and a half and it was AWESOME. We did all kinds of stuff, went to Stew Leonard's, NH to visit Jeff, Andrea, and Anna, VT to Ben & Jerry's, the VT Teddy Bear company, and saw my cousins. Pat, the oldest cousin in VT just finished getting his 74 Challenger ready to be driven on the road before I got there. It's all registered and everything and I got to drive it! This is the first REAL Musclecar I have actually driven, except when I drove the Charger around the block but that didn't count. I was a bit cautious with it but got to floor it spin the tires a little. I wanted to be careful since it wasn't mine and didn't want to break it. Next time I will be more aggressive, maybe. Then, after Jess left, Anna was here for a week. We actually got about 4 days with her, alone, it was great. She was so much fun, feeding the fish, sliding, swinging, just playing. Ahhh, to be a kid again, I miss those days! Then she left but after that, a week or so later, actually over the Labor Day weekend, I went back down to VA to see Jess again for a weekend. Her High School friend was getting married and she wanted me to go. Getting there was a trial since my flight out Friday night was cancelled, but I got out fine Saturday morning, made it down there and still got to see Jess and go to the wedding. It was great. I use great and awesome too much, but I don't know what else to say, I have a limited vocabulary. Anyway, this upcoming weekend, the 15-16, Dad, Carol, Jeff and I are going to a NASCAR race in Loudon, NH because it was Carols B-Day present to Dad since he has never been and has always talked about it. I can't wait and neither can he, Carol and Jeff are more curious than anything. We took the Monday off after the race to come home since we won't be in any shape to drive after a whole day of racing, screaming, cheering, and sunburns! Then, I go down to Baltimore the first weekend in Oct to see Jess and her family for a get together. The weekend after that back up to NH for Anna's 2nd Birthday get together. Good thing I changed my oil today and cleaned my Air Filter. WOW, when did I become so popular. Guess thats it for now, thats alot actually, damn, sorry.

08/04/01 - Well, Jess will be here in a couple days and I'm getting really excited! This will be a great vacation for both of us and at a great time too. In case you haven't noticed, I have tweaked my sites a little bit and removed the frames. I liked them in the beginning but not anymore so they are gone now. I finally found the part I was looking for for the Charger. I needed a part that holds the Leaf Spring to the car and could not find one or could not find someone who would take it off the car for me, cause it makes the car unmovable. But, I located Desert Valley Auto Parts in Arizona and they have it and are shipping it to me. Life is good.

07/21/01 - I have been a busy boy at work lately, and it's great. Since we started having weekly meetings at my suggestion, although Jess mentioned it to me first, things are getting done. We're getting our basement organized, the staff is coming together, kind of, and taking care of customers like they should, and I'm doing lots of stuff with the website, as it is my job to do so. I have been spending some weeks cleaning up our end of it, placing all the pictures on the site into folders so it is better organized, as I did with my site months ago. But, unlike my site, the website at work is much more complex and alot larger. We have about 7000 or so HTM files, pictures, etc. and it can get confusing when your looking to find one file in particular. But, not anymore as I am almost done with it. Life around here has been pretty constant but it's gonna be a hectic but great August. Jess is coming up here from the 7th to the 17th and thats gonna be AWESOME! The, after she leaves, Jeff and Anna will be here and we will get some time with Anna since she'll be staying here, that should be interesting. But in a good way of course.

07/21/01 - The news has been rather scattered lately, but there is a bit of it to cover. Operations have begun to raise the Kursk submarine which sunk some months ago killing all inside. They are going to lift it off the sea floor and tow it, underwater, to dry dock where they can get the bodies out and examine it. Stem cell research is in the news alot because of the controversy surrounding it. Stems cells are basically cells before they decide what kind of cells they want to be. It's like a college freshman who doesn't know what he/she wants to do with his life. Well, a stem cell hasn't decided yet if it is going to be a heart cell, a tissue cell, a muscle, etc. and scientists want to do research with these cells and try to cure everything under the sun that they can. The only problem is to get these cells, you have to create an embryo or use a frozen one where these cells are present and take them from the embryo thus killing it. A lot of people don't seem to have a problem killing innocent humans at will for their own benefit, to me that sounds like Nazi Germany! Create a person, harvest what's needed, then kill it. If the government funds this, it's gonna make me not want to vote for Bush come next election. But, considering I didn't vote for him the first time, I don't think it will matter. The Levy case is still on going and making me sick. I am so tired of hearing about this missing intern and this stupid congressman who was involved with her. Makes me want to puke in terror that there isn't anything else to talk about. I mean, I'm not saying it's a good thing she is missing, just tired of it being the first or second story on the news EVERY NIGHT! A protester was killed at the G8 meeting in Italy yesterday. Now, the protesters knew before hand that there was going to be violence, I mean they said it themselves, they wanted it basically. The police put up barricades and everything to protect the leaders of 8 countries, and they were not gonna let some tree hugging protesters by. This guy who was killed went up to a police vehicle with a fire extinguisher in his hand, seemed with the intent of breaking into it, a gun shot ran out and he was dead, most likely cause some police feared for their lives, justifiable homicide is whats it's called here I believe. Self defense as well, I mean if some nut was running at me with a fire extinguisher in his hands with the intent of hitting me with it and I had a gun, I would shot him too. After he was shot, the police vehicle ran over the body while it was attempting to get away from the madness, now, I don't know if this was unintentional or not so I won't comment, but that seemed a bit much. If it could not be avoided then thats that. Oh well, guess thats it for now. I should go watch racing or something.

06/30/01 - Well, 2 days to my birthday. Last Sunday my friends Mother died all of a sudden, taking everyone totally by surprise. She was only 48. Apparently a brain aneurysm(?) developed all of a sudden and burst while she was walking to the hospital for a headache that just wouldn't go away. She will be missed as she was like a mother to us all, I'm still in shock over it. It's really hot now, Summer is definitely upon us. I think I'm gonna go do some stuff, I'm tired of sitting here.

06/22/01 - I really need to keep up with this more often. I just got back from a busy weekend of visiting and being with my girlfriend, although that wasn't busy at all, it was FUN. Last Friday, I left work early and picked up my sister and drove up to Bradley International Airport, which is about an hour away, to pick up Jess who was flying in. She was a little late and I was so anxious to see her I think I wore a hole in the carpet pacing back and forth. Sorry 'bout that Carol, must have drove you nuts. Anyway, Jess arrived and I was so happy, I blocked out everything else around. We finally left and headed for Vermont, which was about 4-5 hours away, and it was about 7:30 and I had just worked a full day. Needless to say the trip was memorable because we got really goofy on the way up to Christa and Mitch's place, to which I had never been. We found it and crashed for the night. Next morning we awoke to an empty house and decided to get breakfast at a local restaurant, well a diner actually, small town style. We ate and decided to try to find some relatives as Jess was being introduced to them for the first time. We were able to locate my Aunt Cindy but everyone else was busy with church stuff. I guess I forgot to mention this was all because my cousin Mikie, well Mike, was getting married. We finally caught up with everyone at the Church, Mikie, Uncle Ed, Patrick, Christa, Katie, Jeff, Andj, Anna, Mom, Dad, and of course the bride, Samantha. Everyone was busy but I felt Jess was a hit, everyone loved her, which was important to both of us. The ceremony was beautiful and gave Jess and I ideas for our own in the future. We then attempted to go to the reception hall but we missed it and had to ask for directions before back tracking cause we went past it. It was alot of fun and Jess and I got to dance. Anna was great until she got run over by another little girl there who shall remain name-less as to not cause any problems. We left there after a long day and headed back to our "hotel" and crashed early. We awoke the next morning and went to have breakfast with Mom and Dad and Jeff, Andj, and Anna which was nice cause we got to be with our father on Fathers Day. We left from there and headed home about 8:30 and ended up getting home about 2:30 or so. We stopped a couple times and had to drive slow down a portion of the highway all torn to shreds which didn't help in the rain! Anyway, I probably lost you all by this point. Jess and I crashed and stuff but had to get up at 3:30 and be at the airport by 5:30 for her 6:15 flight which we made with about 10 minutes to spare. I then left and went to work, she got home and went to school then work. All and all, it was well worth it. Whats going on in the news this week? I don't care, I got to be with my girlfriend, the news can go to hell.

05/12/01 - Well, it's a day before Mother's day and boy is it beautiful outside. If I wasn't so lazy, I might go outside. Just kidding, I was out already. Went to the Dentist this morning and I'm all clean until November when I go back for another cleaning, it's nice not to have any cavities since I have had so many before. The news is a bit scattered lately but the main story now is the FBI just now releasing documents about the McVeigh case and Oklahoma City. The government has pushed back his execution, scheduled for May 16, now back to June 11, about a month from now. People in Oklahoma are mad about it, especially those who lost loved ones, but if this might shed light on the possibility of there being more people involved, then I say good. Lets let Tim McVeigh rot in jail a little longer instead of weaseling out and dying. His first attorney thinks there are more people involved and if there are, we need to find them. Otherwise, gas prices are rising as usual and people are surprised because of this why? I don't get it.... I live in a very rich part of the country, Fairfield County, the richest in the country. People around here basically all drive HUGE SUV's, like Expeditions and Surburbans and sports cars like Porsches and BMW's. The SUV's guzzle gas like it's water and the sports cars aren't as bad, but they are still drinking gas like it's going out of style. Does the everyday family with 2-3 kids really need something as large as a Suburban? No, but they are status symbols or something so they just buy more and more and wonder why the gas prices go up and why the air gets dirtier and dirtier. People are really stupid sometimes.

04/28/01 - Well, I have been busy lately with work and stuff. Now that I am the Webmaster at work and I can spend all my time working on our site, I have cleaned it up alot, on my end at least. On another note, I was watching F1 practice last night for the race this weekend in Spain and I can not tell you how I am quickly losing respect for the sport and I didn't have much to begin with in the first place. This highly centered bunch of racers claim to be the best in the world because they drive the most sophisticated cars. But thats exactly why I don't think they are such great drivers. Michael Schumacher(?) is proclaimed by many racing journalists to be the greats driver in the world right now, and I can't figure out why. The most recent improvements to the F1 cars include Traction Control so they won't spin their tires when then take off and an Automatic/Manual gearbox. This means the gearbox is still manually shifted, but by the computer and not by the driver pressing a button on the steering wheel as before. So, now, the drivers have to do less than they probably do in a normal street car to drive and this makes them great? I don't think so. NASCAR, one of the best racing organizations in the world, if not the best, is more real driving than F1 and all around better racing! In an F1 race, normally, Michael will beat everyone off the line at the start and drive away with the victory, much like he did at Indy last year, and you never see him racing anyone, what good is that??? NASCAR is close racing all day long, and not a measly 22 cars, it's about 40-45 cars on one track, shifting like a manual gearbox should be shifted, MANUALLY, driving so they don't spin their tires when taking off and if they do, it's on purpose. Basically, actually DRIVING a car instead of being a passenger while the computer does most of the work. If I really wanted to see that I can go watch a street race between some rice-burners and they don't get paid millions of dollars a year to do it, they race because they love it!I guess thats enough for now.

03/24/01 - I saw the movie Fight Club the other night and I loved it. It was not at all what I thought it was about and I guess thats why I loved it so much. "We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives." With writing like that, you can't go wrong in my book. Mir was finally destroyed in a fiery display streaking across the sky. The pictures were cool, to be there must have been spectacular. I'm sure salvage teams and treasure hunters will find the wreckage on the bottom of the Pacific soon enough, I want to see what it looks like now, probably all in pieces after burning in the atmosphere and then slamming into the water like a stone. Work has been a bit busy lately, well, since I became the Webmaster and now concentrate primarily on our site, I can get alot done that I have wanted too. Like, I finally got almost all of the yarns up and now I'm adding accessories so that should prove to be beneficial. Thats all.

03/16/01 - St. Patrick's Day...woohoo! Anyway, I'm back from my trip to VA to see Jess and I had quite an adventure. I was to fly down there this time instead of driving the 10 hours like I have before. I got to the airport and checked in where the lady said the plane was a little late but I figured I would get to DC on time to catch my connecting flight to VA on time. Needless to say I missed the connection by a couple minutes and I was stranded in DC. They set me up in a hotel and rebooked me for the next morning but our plans didn't coincide with that so I ended up renting a car that night and driving 3 1/2 hours to VA. By the time I arrived at the VA airport to return the car, it was 4:45 AM and I had been up for 22 hours. A couple days later I called the airline to inquire about a refund for the part of the flight I missed. I was told that I had non-refundable tickets and that because I did not take the flight I was re-scheduled for, they CANCELLED the rest of my trip. I was not happy, but luckily she put me back on the flight at no cost. Man, what an adventure. The rest of the trip was great except for a flat tire in the mountains, but that wasn't as bad as it could have been. I can't wait for next time.

02/22/01 - Well-iffy well-iffy well-iffy......oh sorry. I got my car fixed and all is well again. The Camshaft seal had gone and that was the cause of the huge leak of oil. They also replaced the timing belt while they had it apart so that was good. Went to NY and got to hang out with some old Meca friends, Tiff and Brian. It was awesome and we had a great time together. Dale Earnhardt was killed at the Daytona 500 in a last lap crash. I was taping the race because it was going to be Mopar's Return to Winston Cup racing since the early 80's when they left it. The race was fantastic, nice, close competitive racing, then the crash at the end, that seemed like one he would brush off, took away one of the greatest racers of all time. Now that I know he is going to die in that crash in the end, I don't know if I'll be able to watch the race again for a long time. Oh well, I guess it could have been worse, but I'm still saddened by it. Work has been going well lately, although I have alot on my plate shall we say. 3 companies announced there new lines basically all at once. Bucilla and Dimensions with their Christmas lines and Elizabeth Bradley with 6 new kits. Not too bad but I had like 300 Bucilla kits that were discontinued and had to be moved into our Sale Bin on the site, that took about 2 days. Then I spent time finally redoing all the yarns I had put up and I'm almost done. Originally I had it set up so that each different yarn and each of it's different colors were separate entries in our database, this is about 2000 or so entries and it took along time to do. But, they after seeing another page that uses the same database system, I realized, like they had told us before we started, we could simplify the WHOLE thing. Now, I have one entry for a yarn and the different colors are typed into the Color Field! I'm such a freakin' idiot for not doing this before. It's taking me more time to remove all the old entries than it is to put in the new one with all the colors in it! Today I added Pearl 3 and Pearl 5 cotton to the site and each has about 300 different colors......took me about 10-15 minutes to do both of them! It would have taken about 2 days the other way......or maybe just a hurried day. Well, I'm rambled enough, I think I lost just about everyone by this point. Oh, I'm also going to get the Charger to the body shop this Spring/Summer. The plans are already in the works, thanks to a swift kick in the butt by Jess.

01/27/01 - Well, I had my first real problem with the Neon on Thursday. I pulled into the parking lot at work and the oil light went on, it had never gone on before while I was driving so I got worried. I stepped out and popped the hood to then encounter the smell of warm oil outside the engine, which is bad. Not seeing any on the top of the engine, I looked under the front and saw a puddle that had formed under the front passenger side of the engine, which is actually the front of the engine in a front wheel drive car. I was sad, my car was bleeding badly, and after I checked the dipstick, it had been bleeding the whole way to work. I later found a little puddle in front of my house. So, saddened, I called the dealership and got the car towed there. Once they called me the next day I was told it was the camshaft seal and it was shot. I thought it was alot worse, but it's still alot of work to repair. So, their gonna replace the seal and the timing belt since it has to come off anyway, it's got about 60,000 miles on it, and it's covered in oil. I just hope this doesn't happen again cause it was sad to see the Neon bleed like that.

01/21/01 - It's now the new year, 2001, and according to purists, like my brother, the official new century. Well, who really cares in the end, dates and times were all made up anyway so who is really right? The Chinese? The Romans? Us? Well, no one if ya think about it, but I don't feel like being that righteous today, lucky for all of us. Well, we got some more snow last night, not much, like 2 inches but it was nice to have more snow. Bush is now President and Clinton is gone, thank God. Maybe now we can actually say we have a decent, moral President, but only time will tell on that. Contrary to a rant I made many moons ago, I have decided to stick with CSS. A couple weeks ago I started to think about XML and DHTML and after talking to some friends and looking through some books on the subject I found out that one is just a more glorified version of Java type programming, which I can't figure out for the life of me, and the other is a more glorified version of CSS. I forget which is which but in any case I gave CSS another try and finally got it working. I just had to look at it a second time, and now that the browsers are supporting it more, I thought it good to try. I set it up on this page then did the same on my car site. I might try later down the road to set it up in work since we have about 600-700 HTM pages and it would be a pain to change them all, trust me, I have done it before. Even with the HTML Editor doing alot of it, it's no picnic. But, of course, I have many other projects pending that need my attention, so it goes on the back burner for now. Boy, am I rambling today. Well, guess thats it.