Hey tau, i know the feeling. Sold 25% of my shares to live on. They will have to pry my cold dead fingers off the rest of them. Thoroughly enjoy the comaradiere of this bulletin board as well. When you say,

"The Kodiak strategy to me appears to be to collect more and more land, and then hopefully find the mother load which will cause all land to increase in value, leading to a bonanza for all KXL shareholders. "

My thinking is all of these nice veins could be Mother Loads. Think about it, if they get wider and richer the deeper they go.They are already longer than a widow womans well rope. Prove up one and the rest will fall in place.