Now to answer the second part of Bobwatch's question (and my friend Titch covered it in another post) - I've never cared what people I don't know think of me, whether it was "talented pop star" (I wasn't) or "vile pervert" (I'm not). And yes, I do like irritating and aggravating people because I think that's one of the few ways to wake up those whose brains have gone to sleep.

But I certainly wouldn't have planned or suffered the past 5 years through choice. However, now they have happened, I fully intend to make the most of them. We are all fortunately able to benefit from our experiences and I've learned more in the past 5 years than in the previous 50.

Hopefully that knowledge can benefit humanity. And I mean humanity. The decent, tolerant, loving species I believe us to be... not the negative, malicious, spiteful, vengeful race we are becoming. Lecture over!