Run-in with Chicago Center

Rick Durden wrote:
I said nothing about flying blindly in the soup.
There are indeed days when it is better to go VFR than IFR in marginal
weather, such as when the bases are high enough and there is ice in
the clouds, however, as Jay lives in the upper Midwest, those days are
a minority.
I've known Jay long enough to pull his chain pretty hard about getting
his instrument rating for the type of flying he does and because of
the capabilities of the airplane he flies.

It's fine to jerk someones chain every now and then.
In previous postings, I too, have recommended Jay get his instrument ticket.
I believe we have to be a little more careful when we extol the virtures
of a rating in this forum. There are low time lurkers who read a post
such as yours and recognize you name from your AvWeb columns. Some may
mistaken your scriblings as gospel and proclaim, "Well, Durden said it
was possible, so it must be true. I'll go give it a try."
I'll admit that I was once young, low time and stupid. I have also had
the good fortune of flying with some greybeards who set me straight on
some bad habits I had in my early aviation days.
Experience has a way of illuminating the lightbulb over one's head now
and then.