...checked in at 20:36GMT Wednesday night via a link from YouTube (I figured out from the host name, IP address and time difference between here and there that this was a work PC). Somewhere between 21:00 and 21:15 he bookmarked the site and hung around until 23:47.
At 05:34 the next morning he logged back on via a search on my name, this time from what I assume is his home computer, and spent until 06:49 going through the blog archives. On Thursday, at 16:07 he was back on the work PC for another hour and six minutes and, confusingly, after spending forty minutes on chapter seven, seems to have logged on again via the link on the Lincoln Bands website. I've just checked the stats and see he came back for five minutes shortly after five this morning.
And no, I don't get out much.
You do disappoint me 'Stu', I was expecting you to have come across the site a long time before now and, having already done my research for the 'where are they now' section of Down & Out..., I guessed the identity of my visitor even before I checked my e-mail. By the way, I deleted the message without opening it and all subsequent ones go directly to the spam bin so don't bother trying to contact me again okay? Believe me, Mohammed Atta will be figure skating on the Phlegethon before I’ll willingly engage in a dialogue with you.
To paraphrase one of Pat Condell's recent remarks, hatred is a self-destructive and therefore very stupid emotion and I try my best to avoid giving in to it. However, I do a very impressive line in bilious contempt and sneering disdain and I'm tempted to launch into a full-on Dom rant right now.
Except that I can't - for reasons I'll explain when I've had more time to think about the wording of my response.
