Vic, my life's philosophy is that it's perfectly normal to talk to yourself, and perfectly normal to answer yourself. The only time to worry is when you catch yourself going "huh? Wha'd you say?"
Shoe - fishing sounds like a wonderful way to spend an hour or ten...glad you listened to yourself.
Those tornadoes that day...they touched down on three sides of me here north of hotlanta...each was 5-10 miles away, but still.... the good news is, all I got from the Labor Day storms was 2+ inches of much-needed rain, and way-better temps -- have had doors/windows open all week and not running the a/c. Heavenly!