Hey Russell,

You haven't got it quite right, but you're close. It's a challenge for them to go one better. No one has ever challenged them as much as I have and that's sometimes what it takes. If nothing they have works, then they have to go the distance to get the answers. The distance is to talk to anyone anywhere who might offer a little constructive help. But as you know so far, not so good.

I can live with my shortcomings because I fully admit I have them, lots of them. No one has made that more abundantly clear than I have. I need help too and it's coming. But I don't have 8 hours a day to devote to that effort so there's only so much I can do. And while I'm having this extra time away from work I'll do my best to try and put things in order, get the numbers and see where I am and where we are as a group. But I'm not going to forget I am a human being and I will need time to rest and get well. That has to come before everything else.

I never expected anyone to pay attention to anything I was doing so much of what I should have done was never attended to. So now I have to backtrack and that's ok, but it is time consuming. I'll see what help I can get to maybe computerize the data as I gather it and then the analyzing won't require another step in data input. I don't even know if I have 100 or 300 predictions, but there are a lot of them. But if everyone can be a little patient then I too can be a good patient and we'll all go through this together.

Petra