you're right on the money. these are very temp movements and, since what I'm looking to do is push not pull, the home node is not the best idea. I can't expect everymonk to be checking my homenode, but I could easily see a monk checking the newest nodes and seeing jptxs+SF-CA and thinking, "wow, jptxs is in Cali, maybe I can spounge some lunch off of him" : )

"sometimes when you make a request for the head you don't
want the big, fat body...don't you go snickering."
                                         -- Nathan Torkington UoP2K a.k.a gnat