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You Made It To 100
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Self, and I know I’m talking to myself because I’m in the room with me, Self I suspected you die of old age. 100 is quite the milestone. I’m more than halfway there already. But things are falling apart already. I suspect you’ve thoroughly used everything up. I…
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Shopping for Anything
Where would you go on a shopping spree? If I could shop for anything and had enough money to pay for it all I would shop for local real estate. Maybe some empty land to build some affordable housing too. But I’m already in debt and not a good economic risk so my dreams of…
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Bandit Lairs
You probably already know I play a lot of video games. Lately it’s been Skyrim. The gameplay has me thinking of all the things that would be illegal in real life. One in particular is walking into bandit lairs uninvited and heavily armed. They try to kill you sure, but they’re kinda right. If someone…
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My Name is spelled Frederick
What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance? I have some German ancestry. Well actually it’s from pretty far back so Hessians and Prussians. My ancestors in that wave came in the 1700s. I was named after my father, grandfather whose middle name was Frederick and my great grandfather whose first name…
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Evening with the Crists
It’s been a quiet day and everybody is relaxing. The cats are quiet. The kids are not. My wife is tired and sore. And I’m a tad intoxicated. Overall feeling good. This post has nothing to do with the daily prompt or markezuma.
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Have you…
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. Got any money? Just ten dollars? I could really use it until the end of the week. I’ll pay you back from my next check. I’m only asking for a little. Can you spare some cash? I get asked that questions far too often from…
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Trouble with Women
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? The primary large failure that I have endured is the fear of women that kept me out of relationships and in a few cases sabotaged the relationships I did manage to start. When I was young no one expected me to be…
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The First Line
You’re writing your autobiography. What’s your opening sentence? The first line of the autobiography I am working on is, “I have read many things that people call scripture.”