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Jimmie,
Thanks for the nice words. BTW, I was wondering if it had something to do with this pocket area that used to be used for sniffing the snuff (snuff said???). And if you have some hand strength or played guitar or drums there is a muscle just above that pocketed area that we used to refer to as "The Drummer's Muscle". Our old friend who used to drum for us a lifetime ago now, used to have two very strong buldges there and even we as a bassist (Nancy) and guitarist (me) used to have some interesting amount of strength there from squeezing and running the neck and either hammering plucking the bass or using my small jazz picks for picking and squeezing in on those too....

Anyway, I have this discomfort, pain sort of on the back but a bit on the side facing the other fingers that seemed to be especially noticable this year in the cold winter and rinks. It's almost not noticable now in the warmer weather unless I expose it to some cold at a rink or with the AC Vents pointed at my face in the warm weather while holding the steering wheel driving for a long while, longer drive....

So I was sort of caught by this term as it sort of would be part of this Snuff Box area created by the thumb, forefinger and that side of the hand, its webbing might we say.... And it does seem to be a bit more when attempting to make the thumb pull in and clamp as opposed to a more straight down wrapping... I figured it was just age and time catching up with me for years of hard work with my hands as a mover, shadetree mechanice, guitar player and hockey stick holder and player since I was a kid on almost all of that.... Pretty Interesting and very accurate name there....

Thanks again and Good Night.

Paul