Please Praise, you're embarrassing me. I've got my image as a tough nut to protect. I miss you too but I wouldn't say it on a public thread.

Looks like we've been hanging by different threads. I only have time to read a few these days. How about you? Looking back at the PMs, it looks like I owe you one. I don't know why I didn't reply, except, perhaps, the last one that you sent sounded so conclusive that I couldn't think of anything to say. You ended that last one with six numbered points.

Actually, I owe you a couple of other replies. I never answered your questions that followed your Chicago stories. Then there was that night that you asked me why I bait you. I never did give you a proper answer. I haven't forgotten. One of these days I will try to explain how my mind works.