Pure fiction, GfS. You take a few things I said about mayself (a marginal note's worth) and wrote a whole War and Peace-sized novel from that, making it all up as you go along. All pure fiction and bearing no resemblance whatsoever to anything in my real life.

You know, this would be funny if it weren't so sick! I must have really got up your nose for you to explode with this kind of frenzied hatred for me. I'm getting a bit worried about you.

Okay, I'll leave you alone for a few hours so you can calm down a bit. Barbara just got home from her job at the library, so we're going to have a bit to eat and watch a movie on DVD. I'll be off-line until tomorrow.

Try to relax and calm down.

Don Firth*

*Firth = Scottish place name, i.e. Solway Firth, Firth of Forth, Pentland Firth, etc. My great-grandfather came from Scotland with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1851 and eventually settled in the San Juan Islands (north of Seattle).