;-) I have never made such gains before in my life. Having that coach to work with has made all the difference.

Our ice storm was in my early years of grad school. Power was out to my 'hood for two weeks. I spent a couple of days with friends who had power, then moved back to my place-even though the grid was still down, I lived in University housing which also had the purchasing dept in the basement. To keep purchasing going, they hooked the building up to big diesel generators. The side effect was that our whole building was up and running even though the surrounding neighborhood wasn't

And firewood was really cheap the next winter.