Thank you, both Paul and Tony. Even when I pressed the "enter" key I was
kicking myself for even asking. There is no way that I would seriously
consider much less actually fly overweight. I guess I was just grasping at
some straws given the outstanding suggestions to other questions I have
gleaned from this newsgroup.

Sorry to waste your time and emotions :-). No further responses are needed.
I will NOT take that flight being overweight. FOR THE RECORD: I AM NOT
FLYING OVERWEIGHT!!!! (Is that good enough, Paul?)

Incidentally, I did a GOOGLE search on this and other newsgroups on this
same subject, and found almost the same question with numerous different
answers/suggestions/ideas. So, I'm not breaking any new ground for
discussion with this. BTW, the bottom line was "dump some fuel".

Thanks again.

Harry