Hello all,

I have been lurking the last few years (busy with life and personal "stuff" finally sorted out), and have missed participating with you in all the trials and tribulations of good ole PTSC.

Hopefully we will all get the news we have been awaiting for so many years. It may darn well finally happen.

But . . . it may not, and we have to be prepared for that, each in our own way. I pray tonight none of us have our life's savings invested, and that should a disappointment ensue, all of us will be able to withstand, finanancially and emotionally, the result. It is, after all, just money. There are so many other things in life (almost everything else) that matter more than dollars. When you lose those things, you realize dollars are not at precious as we once thought.

Still, it would be nice to have a few more. :) And that is why we are here, all these years later, waiting, debating, hoping, and praying.

I believe our legal team did a great job, and now the cards have been dealt. We will know soon enough, and hopefully tomorrow will being us all joy and some level of additional prosperity.

(Thanks to Ron, Ease, and so many others for the legal insight, EE info, DD, pacers, and more.)

I have my box press Drew Estate java cigar ready to go. Whenever the jury renders its verdict, I will smoke it in celebration with my brother and BostonCA from this board, or I shall smoke it in quiet contemplation of what might have been.

Either way, the cigar is toast and won't last the evening.

Rock and roll.

--tps