And speaking of the previous entry...
...I have received compliments from one or two of my friends that I am not really willing to accept. Not that I am not grateful. But, you know, I have met REAL heroes - at least one or two of them - and I have read about them. I know what they act like. I know that I am nowhere even close to being like them. I know of a woman who is so upright that people give her their savings for safekeeping. I know a man who spent sixty years working away at an obscure branch of knowledge without reward or recognition. I have just heard of a man who calmly went to his death rather than obey a criminal government. Look, folks, don't even think of comparing me with such. They don't deserve the insult, nor I the compliment.