Yeah, that's it, is it not? A tiny sliver of real hope in the otherwise blackness of rejection after rejection? If at all one hears back from the company, that is.

But also, sticking with it and making the retry happen---that was all you, robto. Our experience was pretty much that almost no-one we made our office-hours offer to, took it up.

Also, unrelated --- idle.horse --- fun domain! Is it an email carrier only, or does it have a future in public service, as a not so idle blog / site / memex content delivery beast too? :)