Congratulations on your recent turbo-hacking my Livejournal, which I have not visited in 6 years. I hope you sold a bundle of the fake Rolexes and Michael Kors knock-offs to my 2 readers from 10 years ago.

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The United States, which spent millions in dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives to stop fascism in Italy and Germany, has now fully adopted the economic system it crushed over 60 years ago. We now live in a fascist economic system. This is not meant as a pejorative nor to equate current US government officials as Nazis, at least not any ( Read more... )

After almost 10 fantastic years, our beloved castle cat, the Meo-cat Jones, went to sleep for the last time. It's been a difficult week for all, as she fell ill and was spiralling down quickly. Kimlinh couldn't tolerate coming in to the Vet, so the Meo left our family the way she entered - with me ( Read more... )

We're going to pick up our daughter in Moscow, leaving this week-end. The long wait, bureaucracies on both sides of the world, and the massive cash outlay are all behind us. Now the easy part - parenting.

Kimlinh and I are traveling to Russia in about a week - to meet our new daughter. We got the news completely unexpectedly, after being told that the waits were increasingly dramatically, with a conservative estimate of the fall for our referral ( Read more... )

I was psyched to get to a Vintage tourney today with 20 proxy. 1st got an unlimited Jet (Mox, not Leer), and second is for a Pearl. 42 people show and I came with Gro-A-Tog. Really powerful, but certainly has it's share of bad matchups. Things were going well, and I stood at 2-1, when failure to put my Berserk back in the board (having wished ( Read more... )

in Nevada. Goes down to crashing defeat in South Carolina. Big disappointment as I expected the southerners to come through. Guess that get the government off my back/Southern independent streak was bled out ~150 years ago, then effectively stomped down during Reconstruction ( Read more... )

17 players, one doctor, and a deck ( Read more... )

Several things are crystallizing to me on the political front all at once, and I find myself intrigued by the possibilities ( Read more... )

Neil and I made our way to Game Universe for a little split tournament: Lorwyn sealed 3 rounds and Standard 3 rounds. Top 8 get into a free booster draft and winner takes a Lorwyn box. In case you're wondering, this will not be relevant to this report ( Read more... )