Cold differentiation, fusion and stuff.

[Kettricken]

I do wonder with you guys if the job takes up so much brain power that you have nothing left to contemplate life's other mysteries.

There have been times when S. has come home and inhabited part of the couch for the evening but never really "been there" for days or weeks on end. When he woke up at 4 in the morning with a solution. When he *could* not get his brain to switch tracks to anything else (no matter how much *he* wanted to). It happens; I think it comes with the territory in that job.

When it happens a lot, though ... when he doesn't have any mental run time for me or his music or his friends or anything else he holds dear .... the job is out of balance and, far from being a Noble Purpose, becomes a monster devouring his life.

He does his best to minimize that, thankfully. But sometimes it can't be helped, if there's a big push on for delivery, etc.

Ok, see, Cac, this is where you failed to bore me .... why on *earth* would only passwords beginning with "a" work? Layman's terms, please (wink).