Ski,
I appreciate yours and others' defenses of me, but never fear - regardless of what others may think of me or my place in this whole grand mess, I will keep on working to try to bring this to a remunerative conclusion for all of us.
I have a fairly thick skin, as ever since I was a junior in high school I have followed the implied and very sage advice of my gym teacher, who, on the first day of class told us, "Some of you fellas are gonna call me a prxxx, and others of you fellas are gonna call me a dxxx, but I'm gonna pxxx just the same".