Symp, I found this quotation from last year which you posted. How is the training coming along? Have you graduated? I think we need your expertise!

I've been undergoing intensive training at the NSTPC (Next Stupid Thing Preparation Center), where enrollees try to imagine -- and prepare for -- the next boneheaded move by Shelby and Company. I'm proud (in a humble sort of way) to report that I have been designated a "First Responder" when the next dumb thing occurs. Reading all these training manuals has been taking much of my time and energy. However, I still visit and read the board every day -- and sometimes I comment under different noms, which I use so that my supervisors here at NSTPC won't know I'm taking a break from the books. -- USM Smypathizer, June 2005.