-- Love, Punctually

"Love is a combination of lust and pity." -- A line from a novel I bought today, a graphic novel. And as I read it, I realised, with a sense of owning up to a long ignored realisation, that that sentence perfectly captures a relationship in my life. I want to pounce on this girl everytime I'm around her, and, like Mr T, she pities the fool. Also from the book I developed the new technique of double dashing -- Like that! Cool huh? I've been a single dasher for too long - it's just not nearly as effective. From now on I shall only use a solitary hyphen in mid sentences and at weekends. Come to think of it; my friend signs off with a double, and he's the CEO of a huge company, and has an OBE! So maybe there's something to this. It might be one of the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. And while we're on this punctuation theme, what the barrel monkeys are semi-colons for? Does anyone know when you are actually supposed to use them? Why do they exist? Is it just when you can't decide whether to use a comma or a full stop, so you go for both. And they're so addictive; once you start you can't stop. Signing off -- john.