Look man if you want MLC advice, I post in MLC, I let the WAS wise ones post here and don't interfere. I'm only here because someone cared enough to point out you were having a bad day here.
As for the MLC advice, I'm not talking out my as s, I was in the same choir you're preaching from. What you think should work usually doesn't. And there is a razors edge between being proud and being prideful.
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. - C.S. Lewis
Life is usually all about how you handle Plan B. - Jack3Beans
Listen without defending; Speak without offending - FaithinAK