Looking at the past two months, I see that we pretty much did about the same both months while Gerald was on his vacation and had less than half of his prior month. With him back and his machines back online and presuming that December will be back to normal, that would put us around a 19 million point month by itself. Given some of the other trends such as Judson's succumming to the crunching addictions and Dr. Mike looking for another machine (any news), with this team continuing to do what it has done so amazingly all year, a 20 million point month is not out of reason. That would get us past 190 million for the year compared to 127 million last year. Can you imagine us doing a quarter-billion next year? Wow! Given that we were just 51 million back in 2007, that would be a five-fold increase in four years and as huge a target that sound like, it's not of reach of this team! I know we are all extra busy now that we're into the holiday season but let's keep pouring it on and show folks just what all we can do! Oh, and please try to do what you can to stop by here and keep our thread active in the meantime. We've been getting a tad quiet.

It's good to see it. Will we ever not miss him? He surprised me at times with just how important crunching and this team was to him. I mean, if you try to describe crunching to someone who knows nothing about it, they often find it hard to understand how it could mean much of anything. Yet Dave was there keeping his machines going even when he was in the hospital each time. Only his fellow crunchers could understand why dealing with juggling the power requirements of his machines and medical equipment to keep his breakers from tripping could not be resolved by simply shutting off a cruncher. Dave started the congratulatory posts and I'd cover for him during his hospital times until he was back home and up to it again. It was something he wanted to do for the team. I'd love to be able to give it back to him again. We have lots of other "Dave"s on this team. That's what's so special about MOT - you folks. People who care, who want to make a difference. I think that's why this team meant so much to Dave, and in turn, him to us.

Perspective is funny as when I first looked at the bar graph this morning I was disapointed as I had need out of town and figured yesterday's totals were probably 80,000 or around there meaning the other days were considerably less! Kinda like the story of the wrestler Andre The Giant and his friend walking up the street to the French army registration office and the two officers looking at them saying how does that tiny man ever expect to be enlisted in the army only to realize when he was closer the small guy was 6 feet tall! So yes I was away putting in AC ducting! PV once they are finally verified sure can cause huge increases!

I talked her into hooking up an old P3 she had and Verizon internet--it was hard to go without all youse guys!! And thanks for the welcome backAt 67 courting just isnt the same--but i think it is working

welcome back as I missed the aircraftcarrier!