Fall LC Thread: Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing

SPM! Also High Desert Poker Man. I got to meet him & his wife irl a couple. I won the biggest pot of my life with him watching. Introduced him to Biggie’s Ready To Die at some point too.

The problem I find with spirits is I drink them at the same rate as I drink beer.

I find that too. But when I do drink it is more often spirits rather than beer these days as I am trying to avoid carbs. I still prefer beer though.

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Among the sundry legion of reasons I had to finally quit to drinking was that after two beers it became impossible for me not to do a shot (or two) with each subsequent one.

“Spring she comes and Spring she teases, brings Summer winds and Summer breezes, that blow you through your hair til Autumn leaves us, when Autumn leaves us oh how we’re freezing”

Farewell, Fall!

In less than 19 hours John will have to create a new Winter LC thread.

So enjoy some clips from a recent Zak Starkey interview:

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Plus some pics of two of my old hs buddies recent hand-wrist lulz (NSFW)

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Note Buddy #2 incurred zero medical costs and received two months paid time off.

1.5 years ago, work accident, severed an artery and nerves in my hand. 4 hour surgery and now I am only missing 75% of feeling in middle finger.

Buddy #1 finally had to have old biking injuries addressed.

My entire arm is a mess. I thought it was carpal tunnel and arthritis but really I have managed to mangle my wrist over the years I think mostly from mountain bike and road bike crashes. Usually the first thing to hit the ground is my right hand followed by right elbow. The doctor used the word mangled to describe my wrist.

Because of all the damage I developed a bone spur, which slowly severed the tendon in my index finger. My surgery attached the index finger tendon to the finger next to it, fused bones in my wrist, added a metal plate in my wrist and fixed a nerve constriction in my elbow.

I am getting the paperwork now. Looks like my disability insurance will cover 60% of my salary (for two months) and I had reached my deductible for the year so we’ll see what I’m required to pay.

My personal favorite “watching the leaves turn color” moment of the Fall ‘25 quarter:

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Winter thread coming soon.

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The Snow Man
By Wallace Stevens

One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.

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Thank you John!

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