Just as an aside,  you guys may be surprised to hear this, but I was fired from my job of 10 years at a hospital last summer and I live on Bitcoin only.   I am not looking just to make a bunch of money, I am simply looking to survive.  I am done (hopefully) with working for "the man."  I'm willing to listen, learn and do what is best for p2pool - not my profits.  I just want a steady income ($1736/mo) to live on!  That honestly folks is all I want!  And some weeks it gets scary because my little payments don't amount to much.  My problem is, and the people like me out there who are mining, we end up switching back to Slush for the dependable $25-$35 payouts from say 300-500 GH/s, because I receive them fairly rapidly.   I do this out of necessity.  Anyone know of a place where I'd be better of parking my miners for a stable $1700/mo?  I'm not sure, that's why I'm on here learning & talking.  I'm in this for the long haul, my name is Marlon, so if any other serious miners out there wanna talk, I'm here!  I have one running p2pool node now and another node on a Win8 computer in the other room.  I've got 2 more miners on the way but my power bill is now about $175-$250/mo, whereas before it was rarely over $150.   So i'm paying a bit more in power, but it is manageable even with no job!  I make enough to cover the bills, but yeah I guess we are all trying mining out for different reasons.  I am not overtly suspicious of others, I just don't trust the NSA or government because they obviously hate democracy & don't care about us.  I just wanna make enough to live on here (not extra profits unless it's just a nice bonus).  So I'm here, if anyone comes up with ideas, I can implement them on my end, maybe we can do something to change some things about this situation.  Maybe we won't be able to, but I'm gonna try!!