I love this profession of independent optical, and my practice is my fiefdom. I am fortunate to live in a free country (they're taxing me to death mind you) and get to be entrepreneurial and creative and have good staff who depend on me and my judgment. These are certainly interesting times in optical and there are lots of ground-shifting events occurring. These boards are a great tool to listen in on and to learn from. I may just be the benevolent dictator of a very small kingdom but dammit it's been terrific mostly. I'm going to get a new edger and a new ret camera to spruce things up.....Or should I buy some apple stock and a new dodge challenger instead? What's a feudal lord to do.