Well it has been a while hasn't it? How the time does fly! Or is this an illusion? Anyway, the news is of having been liberated from an asylum of sorts -- i.e., "downsized", laid off, pink-slipped, shown the door (literally), canned, axed, FIRED (!). Feels liberating indeed. like being on fire at least a simmer, maybe embers coming to life. We -- well some of us -- do seem to need a situational kick in the pants sometimes as a stimulus to renewed alertness and aliveness. Well if this is the mania preceding the downer, so be it...