Just to illustrate, take a look at the first paragraph of the book I have started to write.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

What??? It's been done???

But I sat at MY computer and I typed it in. Thus I am a "writer".

And who is this Dickens person of whom you speak?

We have reached "whatever" guys. I never said "Stop what you are doing." I said "I don't appreciate cover music like I do originals."

And THIS is why I was gone for over 6 months.... people trying to convince other people why THEY are right. Just like my liberal democrat friends who try to convince me to be a liberal democrat. I am a staunch, stubborn, selfish republican, and I will always be a staunch, stubborn, selfish republican. I don't care about other people's kids, I don't care about some foreign, uncivilized 3rd world country being radically overpopulated... none of it. My realm of care starts at this house and radiates to a very few selected areas, like animal rescue. Nobody will ever convince me to think any other way, just like nobody will convince me to like cover music.

Bye.