Either ECU rises sharply and quickly from here, or I'll be unloading, too, a more than tidy sum of shares. I just hope I beat pic to the gate.

After so many dilutions, I'm tired. I have waited patiently for Altmann to buy a few shares, but that hasn't happened. The mother lode has always been the carrot, and it's an old carrot. To think so many of us could have done much better buying lottery tickets is hard to swallow, but nonetheless true.

Many people must be laughing at this latest event. How can Altmann look over his career at ECU and take any pride, let alone a paycheck? I think Jim Sinclair has done more to help this company than the president. Budgets, long-term planning, short-term planning, dilutions (does that well ever run dry?), problems with GOG, it's quite a track record.

For those here willing to be patient, I hope the "mother" is a lode.