how about we give JT, for a deal announced early in the first quarter - until the end of the first quarter to close ( i.e., "finalize" ) the deal ? - seems fair to me . - i'm going on 7 years of waiting, and although the waiting now is murder on me ( i'm seven years older and that much slower ) i'm inclined to wait another month without too much additional suffering. - hang in there . . . - snowiegeorgie - -