Haha, yeah, I almost put a disclaimer up to explain that I wasn't affected by the American shut-down thing... another reason to be happy to be Canadian.

I'm optimistic about the furloughed Americans too though - I mean, they're just on hold at the moment, and I'd like to think that despite the clusterf*ck of politics down there, that the gov't will get it's shit together sooner rather than later, and then everyone can go back to work.

Anyway, we'll see how optimistic I am when I've been two months without work and my money is running out. :P