Honour Medal.

[Chuck In Oregon]

Wheats ... Check your PM now. It looks like it went through this time.

Henry ... There are few things in life as boring as what I do for a living. There just isn't a story in it. All my life I have been lucky in one respect. Well, actually in a lot of ways, but the one I am referring to is that I can make things up, do them and they work. It has never failed to surprise me.

That's what happened this time, and the result was an unforecasted jump of 15% in national revenue, a lot of money. They weren't expecting that and they liked it a lot. It didn't balance the budget, for a lot of reasons, and balancing the budget is not why I'm here, but it helped a lot and it didn't cost anything. Thus, the medal. Boring.

OTOH, I love your stories. You're pretty darn good and the hero of the board.