I wonder how many blogs die out entirely after a couple posts.
So a lot has changed in the time since I last wrote.
I lost my job in April 2010 - I was in banking - and was out of work for 10 months. I started working again in March of 2011, and I love what I do, though my hours are ridiculous. My son told his teacher a few weeks back "Daddy only comes home on the weekends" these days. But paying bills is nice though.
I stopped playing WoW. I belong to what was a big, talented 25-man raiding guild (we've been top 2 or 3 on our server many times throughout the long history of the guild). I am not a raider myself, I got in under "Friends and Family" as this is the guild that Shides built. Anyway, the guild imploded when Cataclysm killed 25 man raiding, and all of the people I enjoyed playing with and socializing with in game all quit. I had no motivation to play, and no one to hang out with in game. More importantly though, my available play time just completely evaporated; I went from having literally 20 hours a week available to play down to about 5 hours. All things considered, I just didn't have it in me, and I quit. I picked it up here and there (I got a new video card and wanted to see what WoW looked like), but I really stopped playing in April 2011.
And then I started again.
I don't know what inspired me, but I started playing again at the end of November. I miss the social aspect of the game - while I know the 10-man raid team that has still been playing this whole time, they're not really friends - but to be honest I get to do my own thing and no one bothers me. I run some dailies in the morning, so maybe 30 minutes or so, and then I typically play from 9 to 11 at night. Most nights, but not every night. I've done a lot on the last few weeks. I got 3 more toons to Level 85, I've maxed about a few crafting professions (Leatherworking, Alchemy, Blacksmithing, Inscription), and I have a couple fairly well-geared toons. I've been doing a lot of PvP on my death knight, the gear is beautiful. I enjoy the game, and all of my goals are self-imposed. I am not going to get into a position where I am going to actually progress in the game - I'm simply not dedicated enough to make the necessary sacrifices - but I have found a number of ways to be able to enjoy the game in my own way.
More later.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Thursday, March 25, 2010
I play World of Warcraft
I wonder how many people just left the page when they saw the title of this post.
I have a friend, we'll call him Shides. That is his in-game name, so why not. I've known Shides about 9 years now. Shides started talking to me about World of Warcraft in 2004 (I think when the beta came out) and told me I should play. I ignored him. Shides continued to talk about WoW for the next 3 years and told me I should play. I continued to ignore him. In the 4th year, Shides and I actually worked together, and I heard about WoW more and more often. I started to wear down.
See I was one of those D&D kids in junior high and high school. I played the early D&D video games when they came out and loved them. When I really started seeing how WoW worked, I got more and more interested. Without telling Shides, I downloaded the trial version of WoW on Christmas Eve 2008. I "rolled" a Dwarf Hunter and began playing. I was hooked within about an hour. I told Shides what I had done when we came back to work after Christmas. He explained to me all I had done wrong. I needed to be Horde (orcs and trolls and zombies), not Alliance (humans and elves and dwarves). I needed to be on a PvP server (where other players can kill you) and not a PvE server (where they can't). But he also told me that I couldn't play with him, as our professional relationship would not work within the confines of the game. I rolled a Horde character - a Tauren Druid - on his server, and he hooked me up with a ton of good stuff to get me going. but I couldn't join his guild as long as we worked together.
Well 45 days later I got laid off from the company where we worked together. I rebounded quickly and found something while I was still living on severance, but the immediate benefit of being let go was that I was able to join Shides' guild immediately. Shides had been part of a guild since the day WoW went live in 2004, and he was an officer in a large, successful guild. Completely Broken on Skullcrusher-US, if you're into that kind of thing.
So I belong to a large successful raiding guild though I myself do not raid. I have a bunch of alts (the lingo of the game is that you have a character you primarily play and are concerned with - a "Main" - and then you may have one or more other characters that you alternate time with, hence the name "Alt"). Anyway my "toons," as they are often called, are:
Bowcephus, an Orc Hunter
Bosbovis, a Tauren Druid
Bosmortis, a Tauren Death Knight
Bostaurus, a Tauren Shaman
Bosbellum, a Tauren Warrior
If I had a main - I'm not sure that I do - it would be Bowcephus, though I have been concentrating on Bosbovis for the last 2 months and will for at least another month.
BTW you'll notice that all my toons are Bo-something, which is why I go by "Bo."
So anyway I tinker. I play a lot - my wife works evenings and sings in a choir, so I am home 4 nights a week without her - but I have no intention of raiding. I level toons, gear them up, and move on to the next toon. Ideally I will have one of every class, though I can tell you now I will almost certainly never level my priest, warlock, or mage past level 30 or so. Just not that interested in cloth classes, not sure why.
So those are my toons. I'll have more to say later, I'm sure.
I have a friend, we'll call him Shides. That is his in-game name, so why not. I've known Shides about 9 years now. Shides started talking to me about World of Warcraft in 2004 (I think when the beta came out) and told me I should play. I ignored him. Shides continued to talk about WoW for the next 3 years and told me I should play. I continued to ignore him. In the 4th year, Shides and I actually worked together, and I heard about WoW more and more often. I started to wear down.
See I was one of those D&D kids in junior high and high school. I played the early D&D video games when they came out and loved them. When I really started seeing how WoW worked, I got more and more interested. Without telling Shides, I downloaded the trial version of WoW on Christmas Eve 2008. I "rolled" a Dwarf Hunter and began playing. I was hooked within about an hour. I told Shides what I had done when we came back to work after Christmas. He explained to me all I had done wrong. I needed to be Horde (orcs and trolls and zombies), not Alliance (humans and elves and dwarves). I needed to be on a PvP server (where other players can kill you) and not a PvE server (where they can't). But he also told me that I couldn't play with him, as our professional relationship would not work within the confines of the game. I rolled a Horde character - a Tauren Druid - on his server, and he hooked me up with a ton of good stuff to get me going. but I couldn't join his guild as long as we worked together.
Well 45 days later I got laid off from the company where we worked together. I rebounded quickly and found something while I was still living on severance, but the immediate benefit of being let go was that I was able to join Shides' guild immediately. Shides had been part of a guild since the day WoW went live in 2004, and he was an officer in a large, successful guild. Completely Broken on Skullcrusher-US, if you're into that kind of thing.
So I belong to a large successful raiding guild though I myself do not raid. I have a bunch of alts (the lingo of the game is that you have a character you primarily play and are concerned with - a "Main" - and then you may have one or more other characters that you alternate time with, hence the name "Alt"). Anyway my "toons," as they are often called, are:
Bowcephus, an Orc Hunter
Bosbovis, a Tauren Druid
Bosmortis, a Tauren Death Knight
Bostaurus, a Tauren Shaman
Bosbellum, a Tauren Warrior
If I had a main - I'm not sure that I do - it would be Bowcephus, though I have been concentrating on Bosbovis for the last 2 months and will for at least another month.
BTW you'll notice that all my toons are Bo-something, which is why I go by "Bo."
So anyway I tinker. I play a lot - my wife works evenings and sings in a choir, so I am home 4 nights a week without her - but I have no intention of raiding. I level toons, gear them up, and move on to the next toon. Ideally I will have one of every class, though I can tell you now I will almost certainly never level my priest, warlock, or mage past level 30 or so. Just not that interested in cloth classes, not sure why.
So those are my toons. I'll have more to say later, I'm sure.
I Ride Road Bikes
As I mentioned below, I love bikes. I love all kinds of bikes. The bikes that get me out into the world these days are Road Bikes.
I've owned 5 bikes that I used for riding on the road, though only one has been a real road bike. I love multipurpose equipment, and I've always been attracted to bikes that could do more than one thing.
My first road bike was a cyclocross bike. Cyclocross is a masochistic sport that is like steeple chase but done on bikes. It's done in the "off season" so it's cold and muddy. Cyclocross bikes look like road bikes but have cantilever brakes instead of caliper brakes (more mud clearance) and have wider knobby tires instead of skinny smooth ones. I bought a cyclocross bike because I thought I would ride off road with it. I didn't. Anyway, it was a 2000 Kona Jake the Snake. I rode it here and there for 4 years, I maybe put 100 total miles on it. Kind of a waste I guess. I sold it to a friend - same one who bought my ProFlex - and he rode the hell out of it, and sold it to a friend who is now riding the hell out of it.
Because I loved the disc brakes on my mountain bike so much, I decided I needed disc brakes on my road bike as well. The only bike I knew like this was a bike called the Slider from a small company called Vicious Cycles (great name huh). The frameset was $1300. I was not willing (able) to pay that much. So I found a compromise, I actually bought a 29 inch mountain bike and built it up like a road bike. I got a Surly Karate Monkey in 2004. I built it up with road components, so I had this weird 27 pound road bike. It was heavy and the handling was s l o w, but it had the skinny tires and the drop bars and I made it go fast.
Now within a couple years, there was this explosion of disc brake cyclocross frames. In 2006 I found a Douglas Project Cross on mega-clearance. I bought it, moved all my parts over, and have kept the Karate Monkey around as a play bike. The Douglas was all aluminum and super stiff and fast as hell. It weighed 22 pounds, which for a guy my size is pretty light, and it handled well. I liked that bike a lot, and I was fast on it.
However my generous benefactor (as mentioned in the previous post) struck again. He was getting a whiz-bang super-bike and was willing to sell me his current bike for essentially nothing. So I became the owner of a Fondriest Status Carb. Fondriest is a tiny little Italian bike maker (yes I know Fondriest sounds French, but Mr. Fondriest's first name is Maurizio, he is certainly Italian). Mr. Fondriest is a retired racer, he rode the major events like the Tour de France, until back trouble forced him to retire. Why do we care? Because Mr. Fondriest designs his bicycles to be brutally fast, as a TdF-caliber racer would, but also to be comfortable. The head tube is a little longer, so the bars are a little higher, and the frame is designed to be compliant and therefore more comfortable. The particular bike I own is a Status Carb, which is actually a chromoly steel frame with carbon seat stays. I have made some significant part upgrades since I bought it, and I have never been happier on a bike. I can drill this thing to 30mph on the flats and bury it into corners and it is always rock-solid under me, even though it is also extremely comfortable. I give a lot of credit to the tandem-strength fork I put on it, as well as a set of custom-built wheels. The hubs are Campagnolo Record, the rims are off the HED Kermesse wheelset. To the best of my knowledge they are the only wheels like them in existence; the guys at HED built them just for me. They have my business for life. Anyway the bike is insane, and I have never been happier.
I'll post a picture at some point when I know what I'm doing on this blog thing.
I've owned 5 bikes that I used for riding on the road, though only one has been a real road bike. I love multipurpose equipment, and I've always been attracted to bikes that could do more than one thing.
My first road bike was a cyclocross bike. Cyclocross is a masochistic sport that is like steeple chase but done on bikes. It's done in the "off season" so it's cold and muddy. Cyclocross bikes look like road bikes but have cantilever brakes instead of caliper brakes (more mud clearance) and have wider knobby tires instead of skinny smooth ones. I bought a cyclocross bike because I thought I would ride off road with it. I didn't. Anyway, it was a 2000 Kona Jake the Snake. I rode it here and there for 4 years, I maybe put 100 total miles on it. Kind of a waste I guess. I sold it to a friend - same one who bought my ProFlex - and he rode the hell out of it, and sold it to a friend who is now riding the hell out of it.
Because I loved the disc brakes on my mountain bike so much, I decided I needed disc brakes on my road bike as well. The only bike I knew like this was a bike called the Slider from a small company called Vicious Cycles (great name huh). The frameset was $1300. I was not willing (able) to pay that much. So I found a compromise, I actually bought a 29 inch mountain bike and built it up like a road bike. I got a Surly Karate Monkey in 2004. I built it up with road components, so I had this weird 27 pound road bike. It was heavy and the handling was s l o w, but it had the skinny tires and the drop bars and I made it go fast.
Now within a couple years, there was this explosion of disc brake cyclocross frames. In 2006 I found a Douglas Project Cross on mega-clearance. I bought it, moved all my parts over, and have kept the Karate Monkey around as a play bike. The Douglas was all aluminum and super stiff and fast as hell. It weighed 22 pounds, which for a guy my size is pretty light, and it handled well. I liked that bike a lot, and I was fast on it.
However my generous benefactor (as mentioned in the previous post) struck again. He was getting a whiz-bang super-bike and was willing to sell me his current bike for essentially nothing. So I became the owner of a Fondriest Status Carb. Fondriest is a tiny little Italian bike maker (yes I know Fondriest sounds French, but Mr. Fondriest's first name is Maurizio, he is certainly Italian). Mr. Fondriest is a retired racer, he rode the major events like the Tour de France, until back trouble forced him to retire. Why do we care? Because Mr. Fondriest designs his bicycles to be brutally fast, as a TdF-caliber racer would, but also to be comfortable. The head tube is a little longer, so the bars are a little higher, and the frame is designed to be compliant and therefore more comfortable. The particular bike I own is a Status Carb, which is actually a chromoly steel frame with carbon seat stays. I have made some significant part upgrades since I bought it, and I have never been happier on a bike. I can drill this thing to 30mph on the flats and bury it into corners and it is always rock-solid under me, even though it is also extremely comfortable. I give a lot of credit to the tandem-strength fork I put on it, as well as a set of custom-built wheels. The hubs are Campagnolo Record, the rims are off the HED Kermesse wheelset. To the best of my knowledge they are the only wheels like them in existence; the guys at HED built them just for me. They have my business for life. Anyway the bike is insane, and I have never been happier.
I'll post a picture at some point when I know what I'm doing on this blog thing.
I Ride Mountain Bikes
I get really deeply into my hobbies, bordering on obsession. The primary, consistent hobby that has taken up much of my last 15 years is cycling. I love three things about cycling:
- Being outside, even if it's in an urban setting
- Having fun with friends
and most of all,
- Bikes.
I love bikes. I enjoy working on bikes as much as I do riding them. I've owned many in the last 15 years. Sure I had the standard little thing with training wheels when I was little, then I got a BMX-style bike when I was 8 or 9, and the first thing I ever saved money for was a Sears 10-speed when I was 13. I rode all of those bikes, like most of us did when we were young, and, like most of us, I stopped riding my bike when I got a car.
In April 1995 I bought a Trek 850 mountain bike. It was the nicest bike I had ever owned. Cantilever brakes, fully rigid, 21 speeds. By today's standards it was heavy (right about 30 pounds) but it had Rapidfire shifters and it was awesome.
That bike lasted 7 months. I bought a Trek 7000 that November. It was also rigid, it was also 21 speeds, but it was aluminum and was 23.5 pounds. It was light. I put a fork on it, a Rock Shox Judy XC, and I rode it a lot. I rode the Olympic Mountain Bike course in Atlanta on that bike, that was the hardest ride I ever attempted. I began upgrading every single part on it, and by the winter of 1996-1997, I had replaced literally the entire bike.
So I bought a new frame an moved everything over to my Klein Pulse. A beautiful hardtail, internally routed cables, gorgeous welds, huge tubing. A beautiful bike. I rode that bike an awful lot, almost all of it on real singletrack in the woods. I loved it, but dual suspension bikes began coming into their own, and . .
. . in 1998 I bought a ProFlex 857. Again I stripped the frame and replaced every part. I don't like to think about how much that cost me, but I was single and dumb so it didn't really matter. I rode that bike a lot. Loved that bike. I sold it to a great friend, it is still his primary off-road bike.
In 2000, Colorado Cyclist had Intense Uzzi SL frames on closeout. I couldn't afford it, even at closeout pricing, but a very generous friend bought it for me with the stipulation that I pay him back "whenever you can." I did. He also upgraded a ton of parts on his own bike and I got what was left over. Normally leftovers are bad, but in my case they were exceptional. See I am a pretty big guy, and my friend had bought a bunch of stuff that turned out to be way too heavy-duty for him. He sold it to me for less than half retail, and I got the heavy duty stuff I needed. I still have that bike. It's a 1999 Intense Uzzi SL. The fork is a Marzocchi Z1 QR20. It's a full Shimano XT drivetrain, with the exception of an XTR front derailleur. The brakes are enormous Hope DH4 discs, 8 inch rotor in front and 6 in the back. The stem and seatpost are Thomson, the bar is Easton, the pedal are Time ATAC. The star of the show, though, is the wheelset, Sun Ringle hubs (20mm in the front) laced to enormous Mavic 321 disc rims. I can ride right at a 6 inch log in the middle of the trail and not even have to lift. Amazing.
Now I don't get to ride it often these days - mountain biking eats time on a much greater scale than road riding - but I don't see myself ever getting rid of that bike.
- Being outside, even if it's in an urban setting
- Having fun with friends
and most of all,
- Bikes.
I love bikes. I enjoy working on bikes as much as I do riding them. I've owned many in the last 15 years. Sure I had the standard little thing with training wheels when I was little, then I got a BMX-style bike when I was 8 or 9, and the first thing I ever saved money for was a Sears 10-speed when I was 13. I rode all of those bikes, like most of us did when we were young, and, like most of us, I stopped riding my bike when I got a car.
In April 1995 I bought a Trek 850 mountain bike. It was the nicest bike I had ever owned. Cantilever brakes, fully rigid, 21 speeds. By today's standards it was heavy (right about 30 pounds) but it had Rapidfire shifters and it was awesome.
That bike lasted 7 months. I bought a Trek 7000 that November. It was also rigid, it was also 21 speeds, but it was aluminum and was 23.5 pounds. It was light. I put a fork on it, a Rock Shox Judy XC, and I rode it a lot. I rode the Olympic Mountain Bike course in Atlanta on that bike, that was the hardest ride I ever attempted. I began upgrading every single part on it, and by the winter of 1996-1997, I had replaced literally the entire bike.
So I bought a new frame an moved everything over to my Klein Pulse. A beautiful hardtail, internally routed cables, gorgeous welds, huge tubing. A beautiful bike. I rode that bike an awful lot, almost all of it on real singletrack in the woods. I loved it, but dual suspension bikes began coming into their own, and . .
. . in 1998 I bought a ProFlex 857. Again I stripped the frame and replaced every part. I don't like to think about how much that cost me, but I was single and dumb so it didn't really matter. I rode that bike a lot. Loved that bike. I sold it to a great friend, it is still his primary off-road bike.
In 2000, Colorado Cyclist had Intense Uzzi SL frames on closeout. I couldn't afford it, even at closeout pricing, but a very generous friend bought it for me with the stipulation that I pay him back "whenever you can." I did. He also upgraded a ton of parts on his own bike and I got what was left over. Normally leftovers are bad, but in my case they were exceptional. See I am a pretty big guy, and my friend had bought a bunch of stuff that turned out to be way too heavy-duty for him. He sold it to me for less than half retail, and I got the heavy duty stuff I needed. I still have that bike. It's a 1999 Intense Uzzi SL. The fork is a Marzocchi Z1 QR20. It's a full Shimano XT drivetrain, with the exception of an XTR front derailleur. The brakes are enormous Hope DH4 discs, 8 inch rotor in front and 6 in the back. The stem and seatpost are Thomson, the bar is Easton, the pedal are Time ATAC. The star of the show, though, is the wheelset, Sun Ringle hubs (20mm in the front) laced to enormous Mavic 321 disc rims. I can ride right at a 6 inch log in the middle of the trail and not even have to lift. Amazing.
Now I don't get to ride it often these days - mountain biking eats time on a much greater scale than road riding - but I don't see myself ever getting rid of that bike.
Family Overview
I am a quintessential melting pot American. 7 of my 8 great-grandparents were born in Europe; 2 in Ireland, 2 in Italy, 2 in Poland, and one in Sweden. I know very little about the 8th, my father's mother's mother, though I know her family had been in the Americas long enough to have English, Welsh, French, German, and Cherokee ancestry (I have come to be very skeptical of that Cherokee piece, I've learned many older families throw that in there to make them sound more American when in fact there is no proof). So as you can see by some quick math, I am 25% Irish, 25% Italian, 25% Polish, 12.5% Swedish, and the last 12.5% is a mix of Western Eurpoean. I will eventually find out all of the exact numbers, but for now that's good enough. I have a Polish last name, one that I share with an enormous number of cousins, though to be honest I identify most with my Italian ancestry. I have a sterotypically Italian temperament, and my mother's outstanding cooking skills were learned primarily from her Italian grandmother.
To make life interesting, I married a woman who was born in South Korea. Her family name can be traced something like 42 generations back in the same blood line. Koreans, as you may know, have one of the most racially homogeneous populations on earth. My kids, not so much. I look forward to the day they start asking questions about where they came from, I hope they love this stuff as much as me.
My mom's side of the family is fairly typical. Her mom was one of three, her dad was one of two. She has 2 sisters, each of whom had 2 children as well. In all there are 13 children, 14 grandchildren, and (so far) 2 great-grandchildren from my grandma's generation. Fairly typical.
My dad's mom's side of the family is similar. My grandma was one of three, and though my dad is an only child, each of his aunts had 2 or 3 kids (I'm not sure, I'm learning). There are something like 5 kids in his generation and 8 in mine. Again, fairly typical.
My dad's dad's side of the family is off the charts. My grandfather was one of 11 - 6 boys and 5 girls. I started the family tree because I'm honestly trying to get a grip on just how many cousins I have. At the time I am writing this, I am aware of over 40 cousins in my father's generation, which I am extrapolating to my own generation a total of about 80. My children will have hundreds of cousins, most of whom they will never even meet. Including spouses, the family tree right now has 150 people over 5 generations, and I truly believe I'm really just over halfway done.
I don't know most of these people. The family was so big, and the brothers - and brothers-in-law - didn't always get along so well. I grew up not knowing any of my cousins on my father's side.
I am trying to change that.
Hopefully the family tree - and the contacts I make while developing the tree - will help me do that.
To make life interesting, I married a woman who was born in South Korea. Her family name can be traced something like 42 generations back in the same blood line. Koreans, as you may know, have one of the most racially homogeneous populations on earth. My kids, not so much. I look forward to the day they start asking questions about where they came from, I hope they love this stuff as much as me.
My mom's side of the family is fairly typical. Her mom was one of three, her dad was one of two. She has 2 sisters, each of whom had 2 children as well. In all there are 13 children, 14 grandchildren, and (so far) 2 great-grandchildren from my grandma's generation. Fairly typical.
My dad's mom's side of the family is similar. My grandma was one of three, and though my dad is an only child, each of his aunts had 2 or 3 kids (I'm not sure, I'm learning). There are something like 5 kids in his generation and 8 in mine. Again, fairly typical.
My dad's dad's side of the family is off the charts. My grandfather was one of 11 - 6 boys and 5 girls. I started the family tree because I'm honestly trying to get a grip on just how many cousins I have. At the time I am writing this, I am aware of over 40 cousins in my father's generation, which I am extrapolating to my own generation a total of about 80. My children will have hundreds of cousins, most of whom they will never even meet. Including spouses, the family tree right now has 150 people over 5 generations, and I truly believe I'm really just over halfway done.
I don't know most of these people. The family was so big, and the brothers - and brothers-in-law - didn't always get along so well. I grew up not knowing any of my cousins on my father's side.
I am trying to change that.
Hopefully the family tree - and the contacts I make while developing the tree - will help me do that.
My First Post
I wonder how many wannabe bloggers title their first post "My First Post?"
I don't know exactly why I started a blog. I'm a guy with a family that I love dearly. I have a job - for now - and have the responsibilities that come with having a home and a family to take care of. I have a fascination with my background and family and have been working on a family tree on and off for a long time. I have many hobbies and interests, but I imagine I will end up primarily talking about my Family, Cycling, and World of Warcraft.
Oh great, another WoW geek on the web. *Yawn*, NEXT! I probably won't talk about WoW all that much, there are a lot of great WoW blogs out there and I do not intend to take anything from any of them.
I'll probably also ramble about lots of other stuff that is, well, seemingly unrelated. On a purely objective level it is all unrelated, except of course for the fact that what ties all of my disparate interests together is, well, me.
Oh I also enjoy good beer, and to the extent my budget will allow, good whiskey (and whisky). I will talk about that too.
Really I'm writing this for myself, for my own benefit. It's a journal, if you will, and I am just going to dump random thoughts here from time to time. If you like what you read, come back and read some more.
I don't know exactly why I started a blog. I'm a guy with a family that I love dearly. I have a job - for now - and have the responsibilities that come with having a home and a family to take care of. I have a fascination with my background and family and have been working on a family tree on and off for a long time. I have many hobbies and interests, but I imagine I will end up primarily talking about my Family, Cycling, and World of Warcraft.
Oh great, another WoW geek on the web. *Yawn*, NEXT! I probably won't talk about WoW all that much, there are a lot of great WoW blogs out there and I do not intend to take anything from any of them.
I'll probably also ramble about lots of other stuff that is, well, seemingly unrelated. On a purely objective level it is all unrelated, except of course for the fact that what ties all of my disparate interests together is, well, me.
Oh I also enjoy good beer, and to the extent my budget will allow, good whiskey (and whisky). I will talk about that too.
Really I'm writing this for myself, for my own benefit. It's a journal, if you will, and I am just going to dump random thoughts here from time to time. If you like what you read, come back and read some more.
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