Happy New Year to All ...

Although there are times the world seems sort of a grim place to many of us who are older (probably because we can definitly remember when things were _a lot different_ in the world several years ago) things are not all that bad. And although I for one am beginning to see many things in life becoming sort of seedy and thread-bare, and I won't be all that unhappy when my number is called, I can appreciate that many/most of you are just getting started in life and have many more years to go. So it is to you I wish a very happy new year, 2006, and many more of the same.

PAT