Held Prisoner in Hampton Roads

An email from my boss popped in to my inbox this afternoon . . .

Following are my comments on the Project:

Paragraph 9: "Hangar" is mispelled (capital sin!)

Paragraph 11: "Requirement" section discusses a schedule with a "must fund" required date of FY09. Is this still accurate? Did the schedule change any? If this was a must fund in FY09, what is the impact of deferring funding until FY10? Should that be discussed somewhere?

Paragraph 12: Need to update the site approval status/date

My response:

Once there was an African king who lived in a hut woven of sawgrass gathered from the plains. He sat upon a throne carved of beautiful ebony wood. To his good fortune, diamonds were discovered on his property, and he became very rich. Wanting to show his great wealth, he bought a large gold throne, and stored his old ebony throne in the attic. On the very first day he held court, he was sitting in his new gold throne receiving the tribe's nobles. Suddenly, the old ebony throne came crashing through the ceiling. It landed directly on the king, and killed him instantly. There are two morals to this story:

1. People who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones, and;
2. Mispelled is misspelled.

I fixed the rest.

No, I'm not fired. We simply have an ongoing joust concerning English usage, grammar and spelling. I'm currently ahead on points.

Yes, I realize I have not introduced myself. However, I will eventually do that . . . assuming the mood strikes me.

Maxima enim..patientia virtus