I liked it quite a bit too, flintknapper. And yeah, absolutely get in on those nomination threads. I think I might have given it an honorable mention, and if not, this was definitely on my best 16-or-so stories of the year list. There were just so many good ones. Every year I find there are stories I want to vote for that I just can't because there are four or five I liked even more. It's a wonderful problem.