I did have a cushion fund built up. Then, I got a s/w tank, and it kind of went bye bye. I wasn't sweating it though, because I had a job. Too bad for me that my boss had to be all up my keister all day with everything I was doing. I used to want to tell him "Look man this is Altex. There are hourly employees here that are dee dee dee, and you're messing with your only onsite network engineer, let alone the one you want to help lead regional?" It got old, and my new offer was 10k more than I was making at Altex, I am just glad that today came, and with the extra money, my bosses can razz me all they want!