Had That Weird Feeling That There MUST be Something Better

I read up on all kinds of organic gardening and used some of the tips I found and did a little better. But not much mind you!
But then in one of those strange moments in life when you're not where you normally "are" (I was sick and so at home watching daytime TV). I saw a farming program that featured a guy named Alex Podolinsky and instantly I got that BFO (blinding flash of the obvious) and knew that this was what I had been looking for.
Have you ever met someone that has such confidence in what they are about that you know instantly they are not full of BS? I phoned the TV station and got his details and wrote a letter right there and then even in my miserable state. When the answer came I was amazed. In writing that was almost unreadable to me because it "danced" like a Van Gough painting was "Phone 9897 18xx" and beneath this was the rubber stamped name of Alexei de Podolinsky. Many years later I learned that Alex was in fact old Ukrainian nobility, whose family fled Russia during the revolution. It also turned out that this particular farming program had the most calls to the station of ANY program up until that time and was swamped with letters.