"surely you can now agree with me that what you are enduring is infinitely more difficult than what I am enduring"

Not in the slightest . . . although the irony hasn't escaped me that we both steeled ourselves for something traumatic this morning and both ended up with anti-climax.

I'm so so so pleased about your anti-climax; all the way home in the car Pam and I were wondering how things were going for you.