I would have left that out. It only shows your emotion and doesn't contribute much to your argument.


I gave a lot of consideration to that paragraph before I included it. (This letter was not dashed off in a few moments of angry passion -- I spent over an hour putting it together.)

My feeling was that since I was not denigrating him, but but was describing an attribute about myself, telling him that attribute would have adverse consequences seemed appropriate.

He has a little more than 12 hours left to respond. It'll be interesting to see what he does.

tanstaafl.