You are always +EV if you pack a gun and are a reasonably good shot. That would include Ray Zee, Phat Mack, and yours truly. But our days are numbered.

I think there may be some big changes here, but I'm not sure they will be for the worse. The new owners may be in a better position to enable more poker content, for example. I know nothing of the business side of running a web site.

I'm with Zeno. I'm all for playing shuffle board at LATB. I won't be playing--I'll be putting in a ringer. And the last I heard from her, she was living on a ranch in Montana, so there's that.

The ownership change kinda scares me. Then again I am resistant to change Every time in the past couple of years when they tried to shoehorn in extra pop-up ads or something there was always swift outrage that did away with them. I am guessing going forward that may change. I wouldn't be surprised to see 2+2 turn into an annoying cluster of ads that are hard to navigate making scrolling around here annoying and tilting. I am really hoping that won't be the case. Always seems to me that software/website guys like to change stuff, often for the worse just in the name of change.

Yeah, there's a Bad Moon.

Yes, quite a lot was like this:

I'm sorry.

St. Mary's lighthouse, Whitley Bay. I have been there many times, out on the Metro from Newcastle. I walked there at night on my 20th birthday, soooo depressed. Little did I know, things were about to get a whole lot worse.

It's Friday. Beware of Mr. Booze!

Looks awesome. Now that you are 21 you should go back!

It's turning into a nature reserve/seal colony now. Most of those there this time seemed to find seals more fascinating creatures than I do. They just lollop around on the rocks most of the time.

it should return to its previous owners.

one of the nicest spots on earth that has a lighthouse on it.


https://www.google.com/maps/uv?pb=!1...oiowG3oECE0QAw

When I was 13, there was an old abandoned home with crumbling Victorian architecture about two blocks away from my home in Maryland. Me and my friend were very close, and the last owners had a swing set that was made of wood and plastic so it hadnÂ’t rusted out.it would shake and hobble though. We would hide there and smoke cigarettes and swing. I would get stressed out at parties and about jr high school and we would swing there sometimes for two hours without saying a word. Then we would leave and I would cuss everyone out. I was fortunate at this time not to be institutionalized, I would go on long rants that sounded insane to anyone not familiar with me.
I had a middle school class with a guy named Lew and he was always picked on by this group of middle school bullies. Middle school taunts about his mom his looks etc. He was the ultimate dweeb. Gangly, small head, bad hair everyday, he would wear a shirt with non descript dragons on it and nervously describe the most simple thing. One time he cried when one of the bullies took his pencil out of his hand and threw it across the room. He had no friends of any kind. It was so other worldly weak that even I laughed. After being bullied relentlessly and beat up a few times he left school. He became homeschooled because he couldnÂ’t survive in middle school.
And this group of bullies had no one to bully so they came to bully the person they perceived as the second weirdest, the person to bully in lews absence, a quiet heavily medicated kid in the back who was avoiding talking too much in class for fear of getting into trouble. So I beat up one of those kids with a tennis racket and gave him some taunts of my own and got suspended.

My weak of suspension gave me the most swinging( literal swinging lol) I ever did in my life . The bullies from middle school tried to get revenge on me but discovered that I had much worse bullies than they could imagine with their limited imagination and stayed far away after that. and that’s always been a failure of those who tried to control me in the past; they couldn’t conceive of the level of gaslighting I had endured and there’s usually a moment you can see in their eyes when they realize I just find their amateur gaslighting , lies, attempts to kill me, etc less like torture and more like a warm breeze from a past that they could not possess. It’s a moment when they realize that Im not even trying and they stare blankly. It’s a beautiful moment to see psychos unveiled for what they are and I often see them for a split second in my mind naked next to that swing set between the woods and an abandoned home.

I love seals they are so silly, that was one of my favorite parts of San Francisco. There’s a show I watched where this girl kills all of this guys friends and he doesn’t understand why but he later remembers they went to the zoo with her one time when they were younger and looked at elephants and it was the only happy moment of her life because most of her life was spent imprisoned in a lab.
That’s almost how I feel about seals. Seeing them makes me soo happy.

That's amazingly beautiful. Is that a well in the lower right hand corner?

Seals are nice to walk past. No way I'd want to live within ear shot of them.

No, it's artificial, and not there anymore. They were trying unsuccessfully to grow another sycamore tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_Tree

I wouldn’t say I have “weird feet” but I have slightly larger than average feet a la Paris Hilton.

So Ray has expressed his joy at posting in OTT over the years, but not a word for the lounge crowd? I don’t blame him, we are bunch of *******s. With excellent taste in music and women mind you.

On the north coast of Kauai is another great lighthouse, I visited Kauai about 3 years ago and it is a fabulous place to spend time; great food, great hikes, beautiful scenery etc.

Link to info on lighthouse:

kilauea-lighthouse

That is fair country Charlie is mucking about in. One of the places I have marked down to visit before I kick the bucket.

better hurry then with your style of living.

It's Saturday night. Altered states.

Mister baseball, how good is Vlad junior?

He's very good. Took him a couple of years to adjust but now he's a monster. Would love to see a triple crown.