Hey, @rubido.

Well, thank you for the well-wishing. It's been a long road so far. I keep expecting to get to the end of it, but it hasn't happened yet.

I've been spending most of my spare time on HIVE. Even at $0.30, what I make here has been by far the most lucrative of my creative endeavors. Unfortunately, it's not designed to be a living wage, at least not in America, and there is that pesky thing called retirement that I would eventually like to enjoy. :)

re: a system

That sounds about right. I used to refer to us as a lean, mean machine, because we had just enough people to comfortably get the work done, because the people in those positions were good at what they did. Takes a while to find that kind of personnel.

re: chin up

There isn't much else that can be done of any great effect, is there? I've managed to complain and rant against it, but really, that's more self-therapy than anything else. :) Sometimes it leads to a spark of an idea, but mostly, it's the doing and trudging and keep keeping on that gets you where you ultimately need to be. Not necessarily want, but need.

re: live long and prosper

You, too. May we all. (that and avoid the yellow snow. Fortunately, we don't get a lot of snow of any color here, so it's totally avoidable. :)