elaxing bath, Check.
Fuzzy robe and slippers, Check.
Mug of English Breakfast Tea, Check.
Six large breed dogs, literally hounding for individual attention, Check.
Four rats fed and cuddled, Check.
One cat, pensively ignoring everything and laying on the fireplace mantle, Check.
Now, onto this menagerie....
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Thank you each and every one! You've all been supportive, and caring, and kind.
I do plan on coming back, you can check the usual places for those details. I'm not about to allow one bad apple ruin my hard cider ( yes, I also make hard cider...16% ABV), though I have no issues on putting that apple through a sieve, in order to get it down the kitchen drain.
I wish I had typed that first entry today on my laptop instead of my phone. Sheesh so many typos. Seriously, smartphones are good, but just not quite that good yet.
I do plan on following up with everyone's suggestions, both brought up here, as well as in all the numerous, numerous PMs I've received on topic. Wow. But you all, Providers and Guests alike have had a lot of great ideas.
I do plan on modifying my behaviour slightly to accommodate these new possible scenarios. But honestly though, who would have though anyone on the Hobby capable of trying to get LE involved? Ok, I understand his thought processes here. If someone merely sets a brick on the rail of the observation platform at the Eiffel Tower, they didn't commit the crime of killing someone hundreds of feet below when someone ELSE pushed that brick off.
Except they are guilty of that crime. It's called conspiracy to commit at best, and no matter who sets up the dominos they are equally if not more responsible for the outcome.
Could there be any greater coward than this? It's a shameful act, made by a desperate person. Someone so fragile and in need of power and control, they were willing to put another person's life in jeopardy in addition to their safety in the hands of the local authorities. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.
I assure you I am fine though, and not soured by this in the least. Chicago is a great part of my travels. I love the area. Art, oh my gosh....the art.
But, in summation, and hopefully the last I put on the forum about this, people please be warned about this person and others he may know. Providers and Guests alike. He gives the Hobby a bad name. If people behave as him, then good Providers will go away. Am I a good provider? That's for my guests to consider and perhaps leave a missive here and there in note. But could this dissuade me from a locale or the Hobby in general? No. Might it others? Quite possibly. All that is required for Evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing. I for one am going to take every logical suggestion handed to me, and enact on them in a concise and methodical manner. Much as I have done here in dealing with this...detritus.
All I ask, as invested members of my new Community, please act in your own best interests and those of your Neighbour here, Providers and Guests alike. Do not let Evil go unchecked in your life. Speak out righteously against ignorance, sloth, and champion for your fellow human, be they at your table, or your feet with a hand out as you walk by. Everyone deserves a mercy. Everyone a hand. Everyone a thought.
This has gone a little off topic, but I'm tired after a 5 hour drive in the rain in a vintage stick shift. My left knee is a'throbin'
Goodnight, sleep well and rest for tomorrow's adventures. They will not be boring if you take the opportunities presented.
-Cori