Papafish,

I couldn't possibly take her out to dinner and get her flowers, it might set a precedence or something and then everytime I did something wrong I would have to live up to this standard.<jk>

It isn't so much my wife is upset about my loaning him the money (she knew about it when I did it), it's that I took it out of her trip fund (without making it apparent this is where it was coming from) - coupled with fact that I've had about a 45% decrease in sales since last fall and that I probably won't be able to make it up out of our general budget unless business really starts hopping, and the way the economy is right now I don't see that happening.

Steve and I met yesterday and although it bothers me to let his gear go, have worked out an agreement for part of what he owes me and more or less agreed on asking prices for his gear. I've posted them over in the classifieds

Thanks for all the responses.

Wes