Mark’s Ending

[Diogenes]

[sarcasm] Should we now consider you to be a philologist?

And apart from the unfortunate implication of "crack" as in cocaine, does it really matter?

I've made similar statements elsewhere. You don't need to take my word for it, per le wiki:

The craic spelling has attracted criticism when used in English. English-language specialist Diarmaid Ó Muirithe wrote in his Irish Times column "The Words We Use" that "the constant Gaelicisation of the good old English-Scottish dialect word crack as craic sets my teeth on edge".^[36] Writing for the Irish Independent, Irish journalist Kevin Myers criticised the craic spelling as "pseudo-Gaelic" and a "bogus neologism".^[37] Other linguists have referred to the craic form as "fake Irish".^[38]

Or are you another who is simply bored and are whiling away the hours in the, your time, early morning?

According to Star, I live in Eastern Europe, so it would be late morning as Budapest has the same time as you and Moscow is but an hour ahead.

While statistically, it's quite likely I live in the lower 48, it's now past midnight in Alaska. Hawaii is still closer to 2200. I could be awake for other reasons than boredom.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

While statistically, it's quite likely I live in the lower 48, it's now past midnight in Alaska. Hawaii is still closer to 2200. I could be awake for other reasons than boredom.

Insomnia? Guilty conscience?

[Diogenes]

Insomnia? Guilty conscience?

Out of the plethora of reasons I could be awake at this hour, it has yet to be for a guilty conscious that I can recall.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Out of the plethora of reasons I could be awake at this hour, it has yet to be for a guilty conscious that I can recall.

I was being jocular.