Read through my roughly 8,300 posts .. and my new ones. There is tons of information to be found. I dislike the entire 'like' thing but I've gotten something like 7 or 10 of them today and most were for useful/helpful information I posted.I might seem like a; "bitter old man" to you, and many others, but I have always had a low threshold for pure bullshit, utter ignorance and incompetence. It made me the best at what I did because I wouldn't accept anything less from myself than I would try to get out of others, and it is why I was capable of retiring when I was 49-years old. If my telling things like they are, in my typical straightforward blunt manner, has kept you and or others from picking my brain it sure hasn't stopped all that many of them. I receive all sort of questions in threads and also in PMs. At one point in the past i took a several month break from this site because I was receiving so many PMs asking for advice that I could, and at times did, spend entire days, from morning until late in the night, doing nothing at all other than answer PMs. As soon as I freed up some room for more, my PM inbox would fill up again. When it got to the point where almost every night I would dream that I was answering PMs I knew I needed a break. It began to feel not only like an unpaid job, but also a 24-hour per day unpaid job. Awake or asleep, I couldn't get away from it. So I took about 3-months and hung elsewhere. If by telling it like it is, by being a straight talker, by not mincing words just so people will like me made/makes me appear to be a cranky bitter angry sounding old man and it scared, or now scares,people away, all I can say is THANK GOD! I couldn't have dealt with any more people than I already had coming to me for advice and I do not want to relive that experience ever again.Perception can be an amusing thing. On the Mr. Nice Forums Nevil stopped posting a good while back because he grew fed up with the jerks he encountered on the site, the fights, the arguments, the questioning of things that are beyond question. But he PM'ed me saying he liked how I told it like it is, how he liked my messages, how they were accurate and informative. So there you have someone who stopped posting on a site that was like his home, because of the number of jerks who eventually drove him off, telling me; "a bitter old man" who; "is not a very nice person" how much he enjoyed and appreciated my messages. Yep, perception can be highly amusing at times.