Thanks for your geeky response - upvoted with a smile. >you're implying that it's the obvious solution that I haven't considered I didn't mean to imply this.

Thanks for your geeky response - upvoted with a smile. >you're implying that it's the obvious solution that I haven't considered I didn't mean to imply this. I was (and remain) genuinely curious as to why you think hiring someone to tell a family member they're awesome would be more effective than simply calling them up and telling them yourself. I took your reply as rude because you had introduced a personal issue on a public forum but didn't define your boundaries of what aspects you were willing to discuss publicly; and when I inadvertently crossed one such boundary you cut the line of questioning off abruptly rather than offering an explanation. Again, thanks for clarifying where you were coming from.