Earl,
Kathy has it right you can make the numbers do whatever you want. And you
don't get the venture capital guys to help you buy out the company if you
paint a gloomy picture.  This could be what the feds are trying to do,
publish some reports to get the market moving. Most of our customers are
buying replenishment quantities only, nothing for expansion, maybe a little
R&D. When the board members start approving capital expenditures and
infrastructure expansion our business will pick up, they won't do that
without a warm fuzzy the recovery is just around the corner. I hope the DC
propaganda machine works, I'd love to get back to full salary. (We stopped
staffing cuts before we were crippled, the trade off was an across the board
pay cut.)

If I knew what the "next" thing was I could afford a summer place in BF
Montana. (I'll still spend the winters down south)
Dan

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