Thank you for inquiring, sunshine! Today some good stuff careerwise and a minor disappointment on the social front. My partner and I met for a restaurant lunch and we have a bottle of wine for dinner. Overall, I'm in the ++. Some days are not that well balanced but I've got a few decades under my belt and I'm accustomed to hanging on. Bad day: meh, just get out there and get active. You bang on 100 doors, at least one of them will swing open. Only a fraction of my stuff is on the internet... on forums like this. If I posted my stories on line who would buy them? Nor do I publish on lulu.com or amazon kindle. When it comes to publishing, I go mainstream. Sorry bud. Blitzkreger you should read Carl Sagan's Demon-haunted world:Science as a candle in the dark. You might like it. Oh and Stephen Fry's biography Fry: A Memoir. He had destructive tendencies and sublimated it with knowledge and a deeper understanding of human nature/himself. I understand you in some ways Blitzkreger and I really feel a connection to what you're going through... Read, listen to music, listen to birds, watch the flowers grow. Learning about interesting things is fun, stuff like it takes 8 mins for the sun's light to reach the earth and in the highly unlikely event the sun exploded it would take 8 mins for it to scorch the planet??? i like to be proved wrong about my regular