Thanks to you all! For years and years, of all the things I do, yard, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning, snow clearing, landscaping, the pool work was something I DREADED! And I LOVE the water and I LOVE to swim. I have no real memory of not having a pool and I live, and grew up, a good bike ride to the beaches of the "Jersey Shore." I was about to lose it and give up on my pool a few summers ago. I now understand that (simply) years of Trichlor got my CYA up to about 6000 ppm. I read everything I could get, on-line, Dan Hardy's book... I started to understand things a bit, enough to know that, when a guy in a local pool store kept insisting that there wasn't CYA in Trichlor pucks, something was seriously wrong with the pool store model. He said "it's just CHLORINE" and I add the caps because he was yelling and angry that I was insisting otherwise, in a slightly sheepish way, out of confusion. And let me tell you, I do neither sheepish or confused well. I had stumbled across the forum in my quest for information a bunch of times, but I didn't know that I had actually found the holy grail of pool information, the fountain of pool wisdom... It was after this interaction that I swore off pool stores and luckily, the next time I came across a forum post on a Google search, I followed it here. I joined. I read pool solutions. I spent an entire beautiful sunny weekend on my couch reading everything here while my green pool just sat there. I had it. I knew it. From that moment on I had control of my pool. It was never the amount of work that I dreaded about a pool, I'm actually kind of a workaholic type, it was the confusion and the dependency and the fact that the answers (directions?) I got from pool stores were always different? Like this was mystical alchemy. Considering the aforementioned control issues and you have grass outside the kitchen door instead of a pool. I actually don't dread anything at all about my pool work anymore and I enjoy the pool 10 times more because of it and because I understand it. Saving a small fortune is nice too, but frosting for me. Command is the cake.

What you have done here is great, the best thing for pools and pool owners I have ever experienced. Thank you! I'm going outside now with my daughter to blow up a million pool toys!