Dave,

I'm glad to hear that you are really listening to painful points of view. In the past, I felt like you didn't do that, and that's pretty much why I stopped posting to you. You had a positive -- even to the point of naivete, I felt -- air about you, and I felt like maybe I was just raining on your parade and you didn't want to hear it, so I let you be.

It's just that I've seen SO many false starts around here, and they're heartbreaking and gut-wrenching. You get VERY few chances at these, and when people make the common mistakes, it drives me nuts.

Puppy