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Gary, thanks for the reply, mate. It's good to have you back on the forum and I read your little account of your month off – sounded like a blast, too! There's still a few major obstacles to my almost inevitable move to OZ. For example, convincing their immigration people that I'm a good risk, and won't go on the dole when I get there. Secondly, I have to convince Andrea that it's a good idea and that we can get jobs. She's more cautious than I am, plus she has family here in LA and I don't. I think she especially liked the fact that OZ has a statutory minimum 4 weeks paid annual vacation (with a 17.5% loading) and about 2 weeks paid sick leave, whereas she only gets a paltry 1 week vacation and NO sick leave with her present company. Worker conditions a generally far better over there, if you can get the work…. She especially liked the Cairns area and said she'd like to work on a diving boat. Unfortunately, none of the Aussies I spoke to thought I would have any luck with animation in that city. Yeah, the Quantel experience was very amusing and the optics interface in Animator was almost a dead ringer for the Harry's, hmmmm…. Martin