** ...we all have differences of opinion ...**

Yeah, we do, Carl. Some things go beyond differences of opinion. The only person entitled to an opinion about what I decide to do is ME, by the way.

Nice to see you sitting up and eating solid food, pal.

This is the closest to an explanation anybody gets, my friend. Know why? Because NOBODY's entitled to an explanation about what I do or when I do it, that's why. I'm not answering to anybody about where I go, or when I go, or how I go. What I do, or what you do, or what anybody else does, at any time, is our business, our business only, and nobody else's. NOBODY else's.

I knew I could not make it to Huey's in August and I took some time and spent some money and left my family alone on an important occasion to go share a day or two with the man who is reponsible for me and a whole lot of other people being alive today. And somebody else who should damned well know better questions my motives, my priorities, my loyalty to my friends? BULLSHIT.

I'm stopping now, because I'm starting lose my good mood. You don't want to read anything I write when I'm pissed off, believe me.

Bob