In case you are reading this without my knowledge or after I'm dead, I feel that I must tell you that this is a book. Well, it's not quite a book yet, but hopefully this ROUGH start will eventually be transformed, through the dual miracles of my fingers tapping the keyboard and the inside workings of this computer. Anyway, I felt the need to clarify that, in case I'm no longer around to explain that this is a work of fiction and any resemblances to actual people or events is purely coincidental, and all that crap they put at the end of the screen credits at the movies. So, here it goes . . .