Well, our salary budget this year is 2.5%. So your 4.0% looks pretty good to me.


Well, if you can follow your heart, you're a better (wo)man than me. Of course, if I followed my heart, I'd be laying face down in some bar some where. ;-)

Come to think of it, I AM laying face down in some bar, some where, right now.

Well, not exactly right now. But man, I can remember some pretty wild R&R's when I was in the army.


OK. Coming back to reality now. The wife is calling me. She's saying, "husband, my boyfriend will be here soon. get headed to the bar, already".

See, even my wife supports my drunken binges at the bar.