No, no, My friend, I was teasing you - you said nothing wrong -btw, I sympathize with your oral surgery - can be very painful and all those meds...Ugh!!!

I often adopt the persona of the misunderstood, conflicted victim and most of my heroes behave the same way - surprise? LOL!! My wife constantly points this out because of course it's true, but it's also part of my voice and comes out in my poetry and I might add in the narrative of how I see myself in my personal life - I'm being very honest here because I often use a style of language that can make it seem as if I'm pontificating - Hate when I do that - it's an affectation I picked up at university and it still persists which is no doubt why I can write so realistically about the campus scene and the angst of various professors, lol.

I was actually complimenting you as usual on your unfailing instincts for grasping the locus of the narrative and predicting its eventual outcome. And I do appreciate it also when you spot a typo or ( horrors) an elliptical thought or grammatical error - @creatr used to do that and I appreciated it very much because I'm writing without another set of eyes reviewing my work. Mind you, I found it interesting when working on my first novel that an editor made so few corrections - I actually went back and reviewed what I wrote knowing that I tend to hurry through occasionally and not take enough time.

Such a long explanation for such a wee comment :) Phew!