Jules, This is my favorite of your responses. The only reason I bring up these Medium.com/Mediacom internet “troubles” is so you know that sometimes I will not be able to respond to your comments in a timely or even close to timely fashion. I wish I could afford the AT&T 150 Mbps service but I can’t. It doesn’t upset me unduly. It is frustrating to think that someone wanted me to answer them and for all they know I am just ignoring them. That is the hard thing about the internet age. You and I speak freely and often quickly as if we are standing side by side. And in an instant that can evaporate. I just don’t want you to think I am ignoring you. We are different people and yet we click quite clickety-click when we do click. Maybe in 10 or 20 years people like you and I who meet at Medium.com can say let’s watch Lost in Translation together and the screen or device shows us both and hears our voice and there is the movie. As far as my name, you Jules, you Jules may call me anything you desire. You can return to THOMAS BARTON JD and just at the end of the letter use the required little @thomas r barton dealie. You Jules, You Jules can call me Reese or Reece or THOMAS REESE or THOMAS REECE. You Jules, You Jules have “carte blanche” to do as you please with my name. If you want to know about my shadowboxing progress you may ask me. I don’t want to stay in a pattern where the daily count is as important to me as the day I make the heavy bag “dance in the air.” That is my goal. You can ask me why that is important. To me there is only one Jules and you can address me as you choose and ask me what you want. We will have rocky times but I will always want to talk to you, even after I have upset you or disappointed you or angered you. One thing that has been on my mind the last 8 or 9 days is the mostly subconscious image and thought in my mind that had I not gotten my new aortic valve replacement, then next month, this very coming month of May would have seen my death. This is based on what my cardiologist told me and the words used by my cardiac surgeon and especially one phrase and his visage as I looked directly at him. So Jules, you Jules, you Jules are in a unique position versus me, a 6'3" Marine, lawyer and sometimes volatile human being. So my Jules respond when you choose. I will always give you a priority one. If I don’t hear from you tonight, I will get up tomorrow and come to my study, turn on my computer and see if I have a message from you. Only then do I get a drink of water and only after answering you do I do my shadowboxing. I am going to end this as it has really moved along. You Jules, You Jules, have the floor.
THOMAS – this is what happens when you go and change things.
Jules
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