[Northkeep] My big mouth and careless fingers/eyes
STEVEN RUARK
DHSPA5F at dhs.state.il.us
Tue Jul 10 10:05:23 PDT 2001
I owe Damon and Catrin big apologies. Public ones because the affront was public. I thought that letter I sent from this address to the Northkeep list was going to a private address. What I said, and how I said it, were a bit rude, but it's a correspondence where I blow off steam a bit. And where I can be corrected without rancor when I am wrong. Going to a public list like this, it's far below the standards I try to live up to. I apologize to both of you. I hold you both in highest esteem, regardless of whether we occasionally disagree. And in this case, since I was working from a limited synopsis of events I was unable to attend--which is no slight against Talana, I believe she did an admirable job--I was clearly operating from a position of relative ignorance.
Oh, and the word I was trying to use is 'Palatine', not 'Palantine'. It's a system used mostly by military groups along the Pacific Rim, but it's in Corpora or the Bylaws somewhere. So even there I was muddled.
Thank you for your even-tempered reply, Damon. And for the clarifying information. All things considered, it's way better than I deserved. You do yourself honor.
Kevin
Steven R Ruark
217-524-9047
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