I'm going to join the choir here...you were the first person to respond to my first thread, you called yourself the welcoming commitee, and you did make me feel welcome. I do hope you stick around.
And for future reference...I would have jumped at the second ad...the Longfellow quote did it for me.
MM, ever think of 'fleshing' Hank out, into a fictional character??? More 'porn for the intellectual' kind of stuff. Heh, it could be a combined effort, we could all chip in with the plot and characters...