Oko, I am posting here at the risk of raising the trolls up. Out of respect for this thread and my friends that post on it, I have been staying away for days with the hopes that the trolls would leave but from the supportive PM's (yes, awful Satanic PM's!

) I have been receiving -- some of which may or may not have even come from people of the female persuasion -- it is very apparent that that approach did not work. Even when I was not here, the trolls still wanted to post about me for some reason.
I do not plan to address their comments (except one which I will cover in the next paragraph) because I don't need to and to do so will just feed the trolls further. I am satisfied with the way I take care of my wife and family and I am satisfied with the way I treat the people on this thread, the people that
truly are part of the "Nut family" that I love. Everyone of them knows they may PM me at anytime -- using their real username -- if they have concerns and I will treat them with dignity and respect.
The one comment (two actually) I will address is the one about MSN and PM's (and -- just to cover my rear here -- emails and text messages and phone calls and letters and telegrams and smoke signals and psychic transmissions and any other form of direct "hidden" communication one wishes to think about).
Let me say that I think it is very sad that someone thinks a message has to be dirty just because it is private -- in my case, as others have said, my private communications (which may or may not have happened) have not been of that type. It could be that we shared clean things in said communications that I did not wish to post on the open thread because they were private, not because they were "dirty". It could be that these were the times I provided a shoulder to lean or to cry on or they did for me. It could be that these were the times when I shared CLEAN pictures of myself and my family and they of there's. It could be that these were the times when we chose to vent about our kids or a spouse or a job (and did not want to do so publicly) or, the inverse, to brag about our kids, spouses, and jobs. It could be that those were the times we discussed our fears, wishes, hopes, and plans -- none of which we would want to post publicly. This is already WAY MORE justification than the trolls deserve so I will stop here but I'm sure I could list several more examples.
Finally, let me say that I appreciate all of the supportive comments and PM's I have been receiving. Last Friday's birthday greetings from you all (after the first troll had made his or her appearance) and the supportive statements you have made over the last 9 or 10 days are from your all's hearts and I appreciate it and one would think it would send a signal that everyone here (well, the friendly posters) does enjoy each other's company.
That is all (for this public post). I may or may not be PMing people too.
-- Rob