@JonEricson, are you around?

@MonicaCellio I'm just about ready to leave and go home.

But I can stick around for a few more minutes. ;-)

@JonEricson I'm looking for some advice and/or sanity check. It's nothing new that Bob and I have pretty different perspectives on the text, but I feel like I've been responding more to him in the last few days and I worry about how I'm coming across. Am I being too critical?

He needs some push back, I think.

I don't see anything that raised a flag for me. Do you have an example?

@JonEricson I got to thinking about this after responding to his comments on your answer on the puns question. I agree he needs push-back sometimes, but maybe I do too. Am I coming across in a way that would makes others hesitate to push back on me?

@MonicaCellio Hard to know. I always agree with you. ;-)

@JonEricson Oh, I hadn't realized!

I'll tell you what: I'll sleep on it and check in again tomorrow.

@JonEricson Sounds good. Thanks! And thanks for the bounty tonight, too.

@MonicaCellio (It might have been an exaggeration. But I do agree with you often.)

@JonEricson :-)

@MonicaCellio Hoping to give it to Eli. ;-)

G'night.

@JonEricson Yeah, I didn't answer initially because I thought he was going to. Oh well, next time. G'night!

@JonEricson, in case you didn't see this -- while you were out: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/3709/…

@MonicaCellio Awesome. I was actually going to suggest something along those lines. Only I thought I'd need to be involved as a go-between.

@MonicaCellio Do you feel better about the situation? (Should have asked that first, I suppose.)

@JonEricson I do, thanks. I was trying to calibrate the reasonableness of my own behavior and I'd never seen him in chat before where it's easier to work things out. I've been told (recently) that I can be intimidating and that's certainly not my intent.

@MonicaCellio Excellent.

@JonEricson Wow, I talk and he appears! :-) (I didn't see you here when I typed that...) Anyway, since I think of you as one of the BH elders and since you were posting comments last night within seconds of me, I thought you'd be a good person to consult. Thanks for the help and the ear.

@MonicaCellio Sure! I have a BH tab and a SE chat tab open pretty much all the time.

@JonEricson I keep a BH tab around too. (Also Mi Yodeya, not surprisingly. :-) ) Thanks again and have a good weekend.

@MonicaCellio Shabbat shalom!

@JonEricson Thanks, you too! (No need to be exclusive here. :-) )

Absentee notice: I'm going to be somewhat less active over the next two weeks or so. I haven't quit the site or anything: vacation.