One of the Zenfidels sent me this because they knew that I've been swamped dealing with important PMs and eMails dealing with Tuesday nights issues... which are all nearly solved, by the way.
Anyway, I can't follow the thread AND respond to actually IMPORTANT pM's and they were feeling bad that I've been sequestered.
I will make the ASH approval or down-select over the weekend... everybody hang tight on that!
Anyway... here's what I was sent... and it actually made me very emotional... because I read this in high school and it reminded me of a MATH TEACHER that suggested I read it, and he was a GREAT educator, and an amazing man who changed my life with a single sentence.
IF... By Rudyard Kipling
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Thanks so much for sending me this and reminding me about it... you know who you are
There IS an easier way. 
