Lol....reading the comments have just added a snicker to my day....
I didn't aim to provide a ruthless, blow by blow, breakdown of my daily affairs. My point was a general summary, with no aim other than to give some resolution to other's inquiries. This was snapshots, vignettes, way points on a compass heading that were..
Between cleansweep and LakeLBJ, from put this story out of "our" misery, to best thread on Expedition Portal so far: to have diametrically opposed opinions, I suppose, is the best compliment to receive.
Were I a wryer or wittier writer, taking more than just a few moments to post in passing, more concise the prose would have become. Seeing attentions span from sound bites to sound bits in the collective conscious, it was chosen to make quicker bites, than grandiose prose and run on sentences that waste the medium's interest. Truly sorry for the erudite who wanted their synapses entirely embraced without the debris of my hastily chosen postings.
"But that’s not the way of it with the tales that really mattered, or the ones that stay in the mind. Folk seem to have just landed in them, usually - their paths were laid that way, as you put it. But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn’t. And if they had, we shouldn’t know, because they’d have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on - and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end” J.R.R.Tolkien
