Just found this thread!
Thanks for the happy wishes.
Spent my birthday at the airport :(
But had a nice couple of days at the Lincoln Electric training facillity in Atlanta this week. They put on a seminar on weld cost calculations and waste reduction, along with some very extensive trials with the Powerwave S500 and it's associated "weld data monitoring system"
Some of the other participants in the seminar were rudely awakened to the actual "arc-on" time in their production facillities :) I see it as free mining for ROI !!!!!!!!!!!
Plus they bought me birthday supper :)