If you make a request for ... uh ... "support" ... maybe you can entice the Professor to post more. He is known to do drive-by posts every now and then.
"Do you know why Allen keeps saying SHALOM to me?"
Well, dahlin' ... I don't know Allen, so I don't have a clue why he sez "Shalom" to you. Have you noticed him sayin' it to anyone else? You certainly do not look like a Hebrew princess ... a princess, yes, but not Hebrew. Maybe good ol' Allen just wants you to have more peace in yer life?
"And then there is Richard, who pats my hand."
Uh oh ... watch out for this one! First he wants to pat your hand, next he wants to become an "expert" like the Professor.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence