...thanks, folks...I am glad I wrote the one email, stored it in Drafts, and ran it by a good friend before I sent it.

Still...Pyka dying, the 'friend's' idiocy, and then my pushing back HARD at my boss (emotionally and psychologically that is!) after 2 1/2 years of...CRAP.

Not the hell others have been through, but a bit of a gut-smack for me.

Oh, I AM better off! I know that.

Thanks.