> Any gotcha's when operating at 32KHz

Yes, everything runs S L O W .... your PIC can be overtaken by a tetraplegic tortoise on vallium... actually a 10F PIC ends up being one-third the price of a DS1307 in a clock application, just as accurate, and all you need is an extra Diode in your circuit (to isolate the Battery from the PICs Vdd). Squeezing comms into 256 bytes is kinda tricky though.

> I like to be in control .... sorry Mel ;-)

And there I was having fantasies about being 'on-top'... that's another one crossed-off the list!