Thanks for the post and I'm glad I'm back as well. Also, I hate to admit but I haven't kept up, I've done some reading on the BB, but mainly getting away really helped in an accidental way.
When I get time I'll work on catching up. I just read this last page about some tough phone call. Honestly what has helped me is I lost all desire to fight. As they say I dropped the rope, the minute I did that things turned. Without knowing whats going on, maybe you should start dropping the rope.
To bad I missed my chance to hit DC and see ya, but I quit that job so the conference was out. Now I'm in such a low key deal, won't be traveling much except to local western farmers and ranchers. They don't like to leave their property if they don't have to.