Lessons learned in this life: 1. If you dream it, you can do it. Provided everything else works out beautifully, and nobody gets in your way to fuck things up royally and repeatedly. 2. You can get by with a little help from your friends. Unless they don't want to help, which seems to happen more often than not sometimes. 3. If you don't expect too much, you can't be let down. Actually, that's only half-true. If you don't expect anything at all, you can't be let down. 4. Trying is the first step to complete failure. If you don't try, you can't fail. 5. If you want something done properly, you have to do it yourself. Make sure it's the sort of thing which only requires one person to do it so you don't need anyone else to pull finger and get their part of things done. 6. Sometimes, in spite of everything, some people just, well, suck. It's like the changing of the seasons. 7. When life hands you lemons, check to make sure they're still fresh. You could try to make lemonade but you'll inevitably fuck that up so don't bother. See Lesson #4 above. 8. Sometimes, the glass is half empty. Other times it's also half-empty. Half-full is just hippy crap. 9. Life's a bitch, and then you get put to sleep. Symmetry pronounced dead 10h55 on 9 Saturday 2006. -d-