… to change back into my blue suit, as it were.
I’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to absolutely everyone on the SDMB for my ridiculous behavior of late. I know it’s not what any of you expect from me, and it’s not what I expect of myself, either as a person or as a member of this board.
Self-diagnosis is a tricky thing, but I think I must have some peculiar form of bipolar disorder that I’ll call Superman Syndrome for want of a better name. Most of the time, I’m Clark Kent. Mild, meek, searching for every way possible to remain unoffensive. Just a name on the screen. Granted, even in this mode I’m usually unable to control being a smart-ass, but I am able to keep it within reason and back off when I get called on it. 
The past few days, though, I’ve been in Superman mode, acting as though I’m invulnerable and practically omnipotent. I’ve been saying things and doing things that nobody should have to be party to from a complete stranger, as I am to all of you. See, the great thing about Superman is, he can swoop into somebody’s life, do one thing, and they’re changed forever by it. But real life isn’t like that, and even if it were, God knows I’m not Superman. I’ve been treating this message board like a chat room, and I feel very bad about that (this little confessional thread notwithstanding). I’ve killed off far more than my fair share of other people’s threads, and I’m very sorry about that. I’m glad to see the NADS thread survived my particularly inappropriate post long enough to get the real answer it deserved.
For all of that I am truly sorry, and I can only say I’ll do everything I can to make sure it won’t happen again. I’m going to keep out of MPSIMS for one thing, where I don’t belong (irony noted, thanks :)), and stick to GQ (where I can do what I enjoy most doing on this board which is asking and answering questions) and IMHO (where I can do what I next most enjoy doing which is being entertained by the seemingly endless diversity of interests and tastes present here at the SDMB).
I’m going to go back and reread Eutychus55’s plea again now and then I’m going to have to get to work.
Talk amongst y’selves.