Well, Poot!

Sorry to hear it, Jeff. Best of luck finding new employment. Did you see it coming? I hate when those things blindside us! Happened to me about ten years back. Twice, I've been 'downsized' out of work. Tough row to hoe, but also a great opportunity to advance

"It's "i" before "e," except after "c," and when sounding like "a" as in "neighbor and "weigh," and on weekends and holidays, and all throughout May, and you'll always be wrong, no matter what you say!"---Brian Regan

I took it merely as an expression of disappointment. I've been saying similar things for a couple of weeks, and everybody keeps trying to shove it back down my throat. Funny, but it gives me a powerful thirst for wine or hemlock more than it keeps me from longing for the curtain to close. Of course, it helps to realize that the basturge what needs a nogginectomy ain't me - it's some other fellow what needs that (or maybe three or four or more).

Jeff, I really hope it is just a cynical statement of your frustration. As the step-father to sons who lost their bio-dad to that dietary obsession, I can tell you it's devastating on everyone around you to do such a thing. Keeps me breathing to know that no matter how badly I dork things up, it will never be as bad as taking my own life. And yet I do have a yearnin' to die every now and then . . . so I talk to somebody!