=== Ah, but Michael, if you were a smooth-operating, perfect automaton, would your life be worth living? ===

Can't see where I ever expressed such a desire, Joe. The wish that, just maybe, I could get on with something without the constant interruptions of such irrelevancies as needing to pee or wishing I didn't have quite such a headache, is hardly an ambition to be any sort of automaton. What I complain of is that the Almighty, if he really did make me, could have done so much more efficient a job of it — if he actually was as "Almighty" as such a designation suggests.

~M~