2/ no I'm not hallucinating (unfortunately) but I am having a sugar rush
3/@ Chet, yes I am rather pessimistic at the moment but that's due to bad health and money worries and a long-developing middle-aged despair at the state of the world at present.
4/this is not the place to really discuss either what's bothering me OR what i propose to do/attempt to do about it

"..send another Musa to free his children from dis' Babylon.."