Well then I'm kinda hosed! :-) No wonder I never get upgrades anymore!

Much as it's sensible to have a different entity here, my personal values don't allow me to be anything but transparent. It's dumb, I know, Especially here on FT, where there's nothing to be gained from using my real name,

Getting back to Tom, I've never met him, but he did contact me a couple times offering to help out when I was a lowly 2p. If I recall correctly, I accepted his kind offer once but turned him down twice, letting him know that there were others, perhaps family members, who would be a more appropriate use for his kind gesture. No rules were broken; he contacted me out of the blue. Maybe he was amused by my role, at the time, as the 2P cat-herder here on FT. Coming dangerously close to that role again!!!