Just hoping to tread water in 2009 because the economy is not out of the water yet. I came an awful long way to get where I am now, and if you knew all the things I went through to get where I am you would say this man came too far to fall down now. But if things go south in the next few months, and they very well may due to the economy, I will have no regrets about that. Success was as sweet as it should have been and the taste is worth the sacrifice.

In my younger years I endured zero degree winters with no heat, heard the call of wolves at my door, longed for a way to get through winter snow, and felt the cold of a world where I had no name. I found a loneliness in a life that had no choice and taught me that success was really better. As a corollary know that it is all the same. Given a choice prefer success, but be not the chooser.