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		October 22, 2025 at 10:37 am 
		
	 
	
		Found a way out of a Zoom meeting...I have a terrible case of laryngitis and can barely squeak.
I think it's allergies due to the late arrival of fall weather, but I doubt it's an excuse I can use very often.
	
	
	
        
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		October 22, 2025 at 11:59 am 
		
	 
	
		Had a weird dream last night. Thinking about altering it slightly for the next chapter I'm writing.
	
	
	
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		October 22, 2025 at 3:50 pm 
		
	 
	
		Hitting the gym to relieve stress isn’t nearly as effective as hitting the people who caused the stress in the first place.
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		October 23, 2025 at 6:17 pm 
		
	 
	
		Hi folks, been a while. 
I regret to inform you that my professional poker career is on hiatus. I got a job. 
It took a lot of thinking and talking with my partner to take the risk of resigning from the meat grinder. This job is 20 minutes away. I don't have to get up at 4:30 anymore. 
I forgot my login info for the other site and haven't tried to fix it. Will look into that at some point.
	
	
	
        
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		October 23, 2025 at 7:39 pm 
		
	 
	
		After re-watching The Hobbit movies (they still suck), I’ve come up with a wish list for the next Tolkien trilogy.
-The first one is a biopic about Tom Bombadil.
-The second one is an romcom about Faramir and Eowyn.
-The third one is a military drama about the scouring of The Shire.
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		RE: Random Thoughts 
		October 24, 2025 at 11:17 am 
		
	 
	
		Will there ever be a better and more famous painting than Mona Lisa?
	
	
	
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
        
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		October 24, 2025 at 11:23 am 
		
	 
	
		I sure am glad the dogs are enjoying naps after keeping me awake last night to protect them from (distant) thunder.  We were under no threat but Quinn doesn't buy that theory and he gets the others all upset with his barking/pacing/panting.
	
	
	
        
	
		
	
 
 
	
	
	
		
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		RE: Random Thoughts 
		October 24, 2025 at 11:37 am 
		
	 
	
		I've never thought particularly highly of the Mona Lisa.  I don't know what other people see in it.