It was unexpected, and your response tells him that, and I like to think that means something as they peek out of the tunnel.
I responded pretty much the same when my W apologized last May or so...my jaw was dragging on the floor. You can't prepare for everything (much to my consternation), and maybe sometimes that unprepared, real, response is for the best.
You just got some nice validation, enjoy it for what it is, keep expectations = 0.
Hang in there!
T^2
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Uncertainty is the very condition which impels people to unfold their powers.-Eric Fromm
