Right on Pete, I couldn't agree more. There is no Ying without Yang, good without evil or cream without the s**t sandwich. The power of negative thinking provides space for those rare ocassions when we think the worst and we are pleasantly surprised with the outcome. I wanted to use analogies like burying your head in the sand and fore-armed is forewarned but it's late and the beer has clouded my thinking. To quote someone else and embellish, the negatives are just a dropped stitch in life's rich tapestry.