<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Grin... well hey.. you all just HAAADDDDD to elect an ultra conservative for a president... who just HAAAAADDDD to start right off dinking around with a sizzling economy in the name of some absurd idea that somebody over there needed a tax cut...... sorry... but ya'll got no ones to blames but yerselfs... grin...     Patrick C Poulson wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> Wim: I have experienced a slow down for several months now. Definitely slower than last year.  People are not rescheduling as quickly as before, and the phone is a lot quieter.  I think the whole economy is slowing down, and energy prices here in California have got a lot of us worried. Patrick <blockquote style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> </blockquote> </blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A>   </body> </html>