You know, I was going to butt out of the thread but I find this May I suggest Jerome provides some off site background on how life has treated me lately to help you understand objectionable on several levels. If you are looking for community support having Jerome explain your private life to a select few over e-mail is not really going to cut it, and it's just going to make everyone feel awkward about inadvertently spilling the beans in a careless comment [I know e-mail/blog crossover is a huge headache for me already under ordinary unemotional circumstances]. Plus, you're dumping responsibility for fallout from this comment thread on Jerome, who had nothing to do with it and has enough on his real-life plate, too, as you surely know.

[BTW, the dinner invitation seems more appropriate than ever, seeing as though there is an off-site conversation to be had]

Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides