Adywan,

I am a 36-year old financial advisor who lives in Eastern Washington. I have been following your project with enthusiasm for quite some time. You sir, have the guts to follow through on a dream that is quite frankly, brash, impractical and unwieldy. I mean, you plan to film on a giant Star Destroyer model? You actually bought wampa fur? You are a brilliant and ridiculous fool, and my hat is off to you for taking such an uncompromising stance and earning such a devoted following.

Last summer I burned a copy of Star Wars Revisited and have had a SW movie night on three separate occasions with the SW nuts that I call friends. I am eagerly awaiting Empire Revisited and even more so, RotJ Revisited.

Ok, enough of the compliments-- let me come to the point. I hear you on your trials and tribulations with Gateway, having worked in the retail industry for some time. I pretty much used to be that guy you spoke to who couldn't get anything done on a monitor replacement, but certainly tried like the dickens to do so. My advice-- forget reporting them to the BBB, don't send them a strongly-worded letter, etc etc etc. In short, remember your experience and move on.....

I have something that might allow you to do this very easily. I recently replaced a monitor that I used for less than a year, and it is in perfect working condition. My wife has been bugging me for six months to do something with it. I have been attempting to give it away, but apparently people think that a 24-inch Dell 1920x1200 resolution flat-panel is too ridiculously huge.

*scratches head*

You don't, do you?

Ady, it is yours if you want it. All we need to do is arrange for shipping. And as useful as it might be for you, I would definitely get the greater gift-- that is, I would be helping somebody who has more cajones then I ever will, who has the guts to follow a brash, impractical and unwieldy dream.

Whaddya say?

=o)