[alsetmusic]

> This is similar to a frustrating pattern of my own behavior over last year. Would you like to know what is behind it?

I don’t understand why someone would take this approach. Why not just explain the thing?

Then again, this seems like more of what was described, so perhaps this is in character. And this makes me wonder if this comment is actually trolling. Please understand that I’m not accusing you of trolling so much as I’m observing that this would be a really well-executed troll if such was the intent.

[afarrell]

> Why not just explain the thing?

I asked first if y’all wanted to know because:

1. It will take a long time to write the answer so I first wanted to know if it would be at all interesting or if it would be dismissed as whinging and excuses.

2. in the past year, I’ve had severe negative responses to posting a verbose text response. I wanted to avoid that by first asking if people wanted it.