mea culpa

One hearty apology goes out to Shelley who I'm sure I mortified with the very public freak-out that I blamed on a comment she posted a couple days ago. Yes, that comment freaked me out, but all the fuel for the freak-out was already piled up inside me like dry tinder just waiting for a spark. So. I'm really sorry Shelley. You were being kind and offering an otherwise useful tip, and I flipped out. We've exchanged private emails, etc, etc, but I thought it was only fair to apologize publicly as well, since I flipped out publicly. And from now on I will try to do my flipping out in private.