On this trudge, as you know, dates and Boom-week predictions have come and gone with deeply unsatisfying regularity. I finally learned to ignore dates. I figure they're part of the Chess Game. "This is going to happen on THIS day." Yeah, actually, no. Grrrrrr After countless Grrrrrr's I'm done with dates. But Juan O'Savin gave a great explanation as to why dates are ultimately pointless: