Seems to me keeping from getting angry is very advanced stuff. Long before I learn that, I will have to learn not to do stupid things when I'm angry, things I'll regret later when the anger subsides, as it always does -- like posting nasty insults to a mailing list or a Mudcat thread when somebody has really pissed me off.

I can't count the number of times I've typed in this little box at the bottom of a Mudcat thread, only to go -- sheesh! what was I thinking?! -- and erase it all and return to the "all threads" page and look for something else to read.

Some days I'm better and this than others. I've posted my share of stupid things to various online conversations, and then had to go and apologize when I later realized how out-of-line I was. The more I eat crow the less I want to do it again.

Hang in there.

You get bigger as you go
No one told me, I just know
--Bruce Cockburn

Alex
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