here for a moment, abreviated update... crazy life here, Amanda has a lung virus that she cannot take the right medication for because she is pregnant, so we spend christmas & haunkka & closing of our house in St. Joes Hospital, she is getting better day by day, but she has to stay at home all the time, meaning I am moving little by little by myself, but she needs to rest, the doctors have her on O2 24/7, so we have oxygen tanks all over the apartment, and a O2 Extractor/Compresser running all day and night making sleeping hard, she is needing it less and less everyday so her system is beating this thing on its own even with the baby taking almost all of her resources (quite facinating to me), the baby is doing great, we are 2 weeks into birth classes, he is not affected by the virus (according to the doctors, he is getting everything he needs and Amanda suffers) fired up the seld today for the first time in over 2 months, started instantly on the first try, and drove as smooth as the day I parked it, (no question in what company my next car will be) can't wait to come back to VA and see the mastery of Ramos, just itching to finish the car's audio (makes me wish I had waited on buying a few items due to prices falling for 2004 and 2005 models) Ryan, sorry your bummed out, anytime you want to get out of town (as long as we are finished moving in to the new house) you are welcome to get away here, and we are less than 2 hours from a few different beaches..... So glad to have Kent back up to speed recent lesson learned by me>> Express for Men shirts SUCK ASS, they are cut for our resident white honky or lankier (if thats a word), I have never been so angry about the design of clothes (not style but the functional) its my fault for not being a chain smoking unathletic frenchy to fit into Express clothes, best haunkka present, Big Dremel tool set, and 170 piece attachment kit, (sorry no pix at the moment, personal machine with digicam card reader is not moved in yet) I hope to get you guys some pix of the new house, for a first house, it is near impossible to beat (price, size, neighborhood, commute, land, etc) except no garage for the sled, oh well next house will have one (an absolute must!!!) now that I have the space, this summer I will be in need of some HT gurus, wanting to make a similar project to what Steveo made, but I was thinking of doing a smaller practice version for computer speakers for the trial run.. sorry for the ramble, so much going on at once, my head is spinning all the time, oh yeah forgot to mention, the PhD is going on hold for about a year, but as of Tuesday I am a graduate Student of Florida Institute of Technology, I am going to snatch up another M.S. to switch into the higher govt. engineer payband, oh and I am not picking up the tution tab, I can be AHC B.A., B.S., M.S.^2, (math joke)