Greetings from the Wasteland

Well greetings from the Wasteland. Have a lot of tasks to do in the non-wasteland but I am choosing a little bit of escape right now.   The new fishing in the game is fun and I actually caught one of the local Legends just now. For those of you playing along at home it …

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The Crowned Prince of Mediocrity

You ever feel worthless as a human being? When I’m in a funk, that’s the first thought that always crawls up. People like to remind me of my value—yada, yada, yada—but I still can’t climb over that wall sometimes.   I saw the shrink yesterday. And yes, I know some of you are thinking, “Good, …

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A Few Minutes about Mom

Not trying to date myself, but I’m having one of those “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney” nights. If you don’t remember Andy Rooney, he was a satirist who appeared in the closing segment of the news program *60 Minutes*. He’d pick some random, often overlooked subject, and deliver a thoughtful, wry monologue. Usually, he’d …

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Three Days, Two Procedures, and One Tradition I’m (trying to) Breaking

  Two days turned into three, and they were truly awful. Let me explain.   In a rite of passage I could have lived without, I had a colonoscopy on Monday—and then, because one wasn’t enough fun, I had another on Tuesday. The culprit? An improper bowel prep that didn’t allow the doctor to fully …

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