Sorry to read the bad news, Jeff. Hope you can turn it into something good for yourself - you seem to have a positive attitude and that's important. My wife retired last June after 36 years of teaching first or second grade. I can see that budget cuts, along with layoffs, larger class sizes, etc. are coming to New York too. However, as you mentioned with the Football Hall of Fame in Georgia, the pork barrel spending will go untouched. Our country just gets sicker and sicker.