I would love to!! It's just that I would have trouble justifying the expense at this time.

We're hanging in there here. We celebrated our 25th this year. My husband is a painter and has found the current economy to be tricky, but manages to stay busy as a subcontractor doing work at a senior living community (fortunately there is and will continue to be folks in need of places like that if not new housing!). I'll be doing some work with him as he has 1 1/2 miles of soffets to paint (hard for me to fathom at this point).

Our daughter (only child) just got married last month...makes me feel OLDER for sure! My next moniker is likely to be GRANDMA!!! Yikes! So far they've only adopted a kitty, but that's usually the first step. LOL

Otherwise, I'm not doing as much programming as I'd like. However, just being out here yesterday sparked an idea I will be pitching to a current customer. I do get many ideas, it's just hard to sell them. Budgets are shrinking and the workloads for most folks have increased to a point where the idea of having to learn a new way to do something isn't easy to sell. As a result, I picked up a hobby since last fall and am trying to turn it into something else. (That's me, always trying to make something out of thin air!) If you didn't pick it up from the message I sent Dragan...www.byteworks2000.com/mk_watercolors.htm. It shows a very small sample of all of the works I've created.

I still get excited to be able to write code and solve problems, so I plan to stick around until my mind goes!

Martha