Well I lied. I wasn't going to address the events of the last few days again, but then a comment from a reader gave me a moment of pause - and I'm not referring to the vulgar one from the content "borrower". The comment caused me to take a step back and look at my actions a little more objectively and upon doing that, I was chagrined at my inability to stay on the high road in addressing the problem. Allow me to quote from my e-mail to the reader:
I can't disagree with you that my response to the actions of the individual are questionable - I was (and still am to a certain degree) very angry in regard to how this person chose to respond(...)to my requests, and that anger spawned my response.
I snapped, pure and simple. My blog is an expression of me and I do have my failings! I could remove the posts (I have removed the contact information of that person - although it was in the public domain and, therefore, not technically a violation of privacy, but, yes, a dip into childish behavior), but I'm leaving them up to serve as a reminder to myself that I can do better and take a higher road in the future.
I've done so privately, but want to take this opportunity to publicly thank Robert E. for holding up the mirror, so to speak. I looked in and didn't like what I saw. Let this be a lesson to us all - it's one thing to be angry, it's another thing to act on that anger with the type of behavior that made us angry in the first place. Let's not do that any more.
Now, it's time to move past this and get back to our raison d'etre - poker!
