Can you tell I'm a tad sleep-deficit? sheesh, my post was just this side of unintelligible, LOL!
Plus the wrist band that you have to wear as your ticket to get into the stage area is interferring with my typing.
I'll print out Chair's opening, thanks for the heads up.
I've had insomnia for a few weeks and know that my posts have been less than illuminating :-)
It really is worth copying the Chair's opening to your e-mail and printing it out; it's superb!
We're going to a wine tasting/art show/dinner tonight and one of our guests is a big liberal and he's from New Orleans! So I just know this will be a huge topic of conversation and I want to have as much ammunition at my disposal as possible.