Lady Pilot wrote:

I'm shocked! Neal left on New Years day in 2004. He never gave us a
progress report. I thought the sharks ate him.

I tried to e-mail him a couple of months ago and his e-mail was returned.

Now Taddy has found me despicable! What shall I do know?

LP (can Peter Wiley give me a job on his ship?)

Dear Madame Vinyl,

Others may find you despicable, wanting, lacking, argumentative,
fast, high-flying etc etc, but I can't even find you in the first
place. So why blame me for the adjective? Why? Why? Where have I
transgressed? How can I now survive the odium of being a user of
such a word?

Flying Tadpole