motivation for the exploration

My hat was none the worse for wear after spending a couple of weeks in the shop's lost property box; its recovery was pleasing after a day in which the slow reduction in the level of headache and eye-grate was tempered by the need to thrice invoke the delete-the-first-two-email-replies-you-write guideline to prevent the excessive use of unhelpful sarcasm in response to unhelpful unhelpfulness.