Bob, if you ever decide to quit writing code I'm certain you could make a living writing stories! I very much enjoyed reading your narrative. Glad everything worked out OK and that there were no "grizzly" details to be told.

>Actually this is a could be horror story. While a lot of the VFP adventurers were trying to return home from DevCon, I spend Saturday on a hike in the Rocky Mountains.
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>As my son said to my wife when we got home.
>"Mom, I know what to get Dad for Father's Day!"
>"What?"
>"Another can of Bear Spray!"
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>If you're at all interested in the rest of this true-to-life story, you will find it at
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>http://www.telusplanet.net/public/blucas/grizzly.htm
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>I suppose the link kind of gives some of the story away. I hope you don't mind this totally off topic posting.