guys - i felt the same way. First weekend in over two years that me and my Girl have off.. there I was for two hours on the compy. That can't happen again. It was a Gorgeous day today. I'm glad I left when I did, and didn't get wrapped up further.
That said, we had a really efficeint system of exploiting info.. Two separate roooms. One 'official' the other 'secret'. The secret room researching and calculating.
I have to say, though, I felt that my (personal) opinion was only getting in the way. These conversations are purely in the realm of Foreign Ministry, and my views as a citizen should not influence the Ministers.
I just hope that my dissent from agreeing to the trade (which I now think was the absolute right thing to do) didn't cause more problems than my input facilitated.
Next chat, I hope we are able to leverage the things that worked well and overcome the annoyances that failed.