so I elected, "inactive" and now, there is a "retired" option too. Can't afford to take the chance to let it expire - but I doubt I will ever need it again (and no, I don't have it on my personal business card - about as useless (in my case, but not for those practicing) as putting MBA or the myriad of other initials people seem to need).

When I worked for the bigs, they actually had some very good CPE courses. Once I got on my own, I generally looked for interesting, and since there was hardly ever any of that, switched to easiest...

I never waited until the last day. LOL. Don't let your teenagers know you procrastinated like that. They will hold it against you.