Jeff, you are so funny and nice but now I am wondering if I am more sharkish than seal-like. I feel worried that I was too mean to "Fixer". It is a little too easy to be outspoken about someone else's long-standing problems than it is to address the troubles with my own.

Your grief caught up with me in an odd way. Some of us have been at this for such a long while. I hope that you are doing better and figuring out good ways to be contented with things as they are. Best wishes to you... the birthday kind and the everyday sort as well.