empallinok I have pretty much decided to take this whole thing down. I am in the preceess of prepping it for that. removing cut tags and the like. once that is done I will be saving the pages (but not individual posts w/ comments) as pdf files and uploading them to my site. they will remain there until my host shuts that account down. while waiting for that all the other bits and pieces I have sitting aound the internet will be brought down if they have not been already. from there it will just be a mater of waiting for accounts to be closed. there are a lot of answer to why I am doing this. the main one being that it is just words that do not matter. I am obsessed with updating this instead of taking care of things in real life that I need to. it's all little stuff when I need to be focusing on the big picture. see you on the flipside.