Trudy, if you reread my post, you'll see I didn't call you naive. I wasn't referring to you as a person, but your opinion on this one matter.

While rereading my post you'll also note I didn't call setups of the paparazzis rare.

Uh huh. They're not the patsies in this little game.

I have no idea what that means.

I don't think you're generally naive either, but on this you seem to be.

The "uh huh" is that I agree. The paparazzi aren't patsies. The public are.

I don't think you're generally naive either, but on this you seem to be.

Fair enough. But I never called you names, and I want that to be clear. You went there, not me.

ita, I kind of took it the way Trudy did. Not arguing what you meant, but how it read to me.

I really thought you had and intended to respond in kind.

So, you know, if you didn't I didn't either. SInce I was trying to be in-kind.

Alright, my Grandmother might be dying. I need to just stop this conversationn ow.

I mean, feeling of my own modern life? Can I pass that up?

Er, well, if it's anything like the Chinese "champagne" I had in China, I'd say pass. Unless, that is, you have a taste for Dimetapp.

I kind of took it the way Trudy did

That interests me. Because I described a stance--why does that look like I'm branding the person? How would one better phrase that without over-defending and losing the point?

I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother, Trudy.

Thanks. Its all happening pretty now and i'm overhearing my mother on the phone.

That's hard, Trudy, I'm sorry.

If one has a fear of heights and/or ladders, one should probably not seek employment as a theatrical electrician. Just a thought.

In situations when I'm hiring people to work I'm supposed to be able to supervise and plan, not be the one hefting and climbing. Since I keep having to do that stuff, I'm going to have to figure how to be more ambidextrous. I seem to work the left biceps more than the right and the right triceps and forearm more than the left. And whatever I'm doing to my back is now spreading the pain and tension down into my right leg.