Hey Nancy!   
      
    NB> you never know when one will be helpful down the line   
      
   Agreed, except often one can know when and come up with a plan chock full o'   
   helpfulness.  That is my current perspective with respect to this particular   
   brush with a learning experience.   
      
    NB> Sometimes that's the only way things get accomplished...  :)   
      
   Sometimes?  Not that I have been keeping track, but my hunch is that in my   
   case it is probably much higher than a simple majority of attempts at   
   accompilshing things, and perhaps always in the case of accompishments.  I   
   might even be tempted to conclude that if it weren't for blind stubborness I   
   probably would have never accomplished anything.   
      
   Life is good,   
   Maurice   
      
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