Well my business just got fired. My biggest and only real client for over 40 years has changed direction and has hired children for slave wages WITH ONE WEEK OF TRAINING to do what my business has been doing for over 40 years! I hope they go bankrupt! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. Ok, it's all good. I'm not selling anything. I'll survive regardless. If my Keogh hadn't fallen 40% and my fixed income managed account 40% and my mad money account 50% I'd just retire and say !^c& it. But with things soooooo uncertain tomorrow is the first day of my new reality. DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO MAKE MY FORMER CLIENT FAIL! Bast@rds! Forget the new lightweight rims. The lowering springs, the cooling mods, tune, etc. Tires I have to have. Man what a bummer. One day your racing a SRT-6 and the next you don't know how to fill the tank. I do have a plan but I hate to start over. You can be sure I'll be in contact with the clients of my former client to inform them that my company is no longer providing services and my willingness to work directly, and cheaper by the way because they charge a 100% markup on my work. Jerks! Lets just say it hurts. These past 2 years I've lowered prices to 1980's levels, I've upgraded all my facilities to make them happy (huge capital investment) taken over expenses and responsibilities that correspond to them and not me and now they shoot me in the back while I'm not looking and just whistle a happy tune. Are these Obama economics? When did I become the old, antiquated, out dated, no good, can't adjust, smelly, ... old fart? I didn't. They are willing to sacrifice excellence for economy. Experience for willingness to work for food. I did sort of see this coming and I do have another client but I bill them in a month what I was billing my former client in a day. Today I let all my workers go but one. Now it's a family business again. On the bright side I did get around to replacing the damaged wall in the bathroom today. Tomorrow another coat of joint compound goes on. I also had time to buy roses for my wife. I think about buying them all the time by never get around to it. Wait a minute, she is smiling at me, what's this .... dinner? Holy cow, maybe they did me a favor. Was it the roses? MAYBE THEY DID ME A FAVOR. But I'm still going to do all I can to see their demise. It was my company that made them what they were. They will be fine for a while, but mark my words, when their clients learn who is doing the work now they won't be happy. Especially since they charge double what I do. Don't pay me any attention. This is my rant. Nothing else. I don't have to sell my car. I do have a lot of reorganizing of my finances to do and lots of appointments to make. The cream always rises to the top. Let me just say, it took years and years and years to learn what I know. I should be paid double what I was making and we all start out young and willing to work for nothing to learn. But paying customers don't want anyone learning on their projects. We'll see what happens. Have a nice day and don't spend money. Crap.

Les

P.S. Thank the lord for my wonderful woman, my wonderful dog, my wonderful only worker, my 2006 SRT-6, my lack of mortgage, my lack of debts, and all my forum allies.