Today in the shower I made a break through. I told myself "down boy!" and prevented myself from slipping into rage. Now I know you're wondering: "Dude should have figured out how to control his anger by now. That's old hat." And you would be quite right. No fear though, I HAVE learned to control my anger and did so as a wee tot. In fact I'm usually so rational that I rarely ever flair up, it's the rare occasion that will lead me to raising my voice in wrath. However I do seem to get these low intensity emotional angers that are triggered by odd things. Once there, I tend to lock down the "super max" and become a difficult human being for a few hours.
Today I successfully talked myself into an even keel and saved everyone the trouble. Power to self awareness.