i will start out by apologizing to the team for doing the exact thing i advise friends and relatives not to do. rather than sleep on a major decision a couple of nights, i got emotionaly charged by the situation (while knowing hardly anything about it), made a major decision (yes, for me team membership is a major decision) and quit the team.

i could let pride keep me from renouncing my decision, but what we have accomplished together is way too important for me to do that. i apologize to each of you for abandoning you during a tough time. i assure you that as the storms of life rock our group (and they always will) i will stick with you.

i wholeheartedly endorse graham as our team captain. it was his gentle guidance that has lead me back to the group. rather than take offense at my rash action, he sent gentle messages of encouragement that made me realize my feelings were overwhelming my common sense. this is exactly the kind of leadership a growing team needs. he is definitely worthy of assuming command of the great ship mot and he has my full commitment (as does the team).

now that the mea culpa is complete, let's all get back on track and kick some IBM backside.

heating the house with cpu's benifits mankind

Your repentant (and recommitted) teammate,

parmesian

I know that everyone on our team will be happy to exetend a big welcome home to DAJ as he returns to the team. I know that these have been difficult issues that each of us has had to consider and I am glad to see that he has chosen to return to crunch with his friends here on MOT.

I too have decided to come back but for one day I had joined another team. I was number one - most total points, most points for the day, most machines running. But no thread, no website and no graham graphics. So back to the 30s and adding my 2% (or is that 2 cents) per day.

Thanks for the welcome back