Mornin' Cuzzies, It's so rare my email gets a hiccup, caused by either my browser or email server, that I hardly know how to act. o : Anyhoo, if I go missing for several days, you'll know that's the prob. Ah, the well, the well! Constant conversation around here: one, because we know those crazy Louisianians, how unique they are as a people and how they absolutely loooove their state, their life, and each other.....what a completely zaney collection of folks!......and the technicals of oiyle drilling, even though no one here is completely well versed in offshore drilling.....drilling is drilling. Ole Buckley spent 5 yrs. in college learning to be a petroleum engineer in one of the best and most difficult programs going....the University of Texas, natch. And, the typical reaction of a bunch of hot shots coming in to run a very, very technical program w/ not one drop's worth of experience or knowledge.....we see it every day! o : What we believe should have happened from the get go was that a collection of the finest engineers in the world should have been assembled to pool their knowledge and expertise. But, people being what they are didn't do that. ) : And, Da Kid is returning from Cozumel today....very curious to hear the response from that trip. So many, many from our part of the world are used to funning and frolicing in Mexico.....which has absolutely been shut down to all of us now. Mexico is beyond dangerous! Even the Mexican natives returning to visit families are just scared to death to go. Most of the Buckleys are Mexico raised, and they don't go at all. And, why did they leave in the first place? Well, that's interesting: they owned a big ranch which discovered a bunch of oil under it. And, when they developed the field and got it up and running, Mexico just marched in, took it over, and didn't pay them a red cent for it. So, y'all have a good one.....Ah got a busy day ahead may sef! o : Buckette