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LOL. You use a "QAnon" avatar and expect people to take you seriously? SMH.

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I'm a fairly avid sports fan, though unlike you, I don't have a single team I'm all in for. It used to be Arizona basketball, but over the last few years, I've become increasingly disillusioned with big-time college men's sports. The influx of money from tv and shoe companies has been extremely corrupting, and the plantation disparity between multi-millionaire coaches and assorted associated fat cats and unpaid black field hands has really begun to eat away at my enthusiasm. Things like this fucking debacle at Ohio State just fuel the flames.

What a wonderful way to use your inheritance...to honor your dad by getting healthier, rather than pissing it away on some temporary material indulgence like most people do. Good for you. The phrase "older and rounder" stood out (and forgive me if this seems too personal), but It made me laugh. A point of departure I have with my one brother who's still single is that, to his credit he keeps himself very fit, but along with that is this juvenile concept of the feminine ideal being these 20 year old college girls who work at the bars and restaurants near the UofA. The women I'm attracted to are like me...some scars and scrapes, some miles under the hood. I don't see these things as defects...I see them as the result of being human, living a real life rather than this pathetic quest to maintain a youthful appearance, often at a surgically gruesome cost. Where some people see the cost of age, I see beauty.

Some of the people I build furniture for get really bent if the piece gets a scratch 5 years down the line. I tell them, your home isn't a museum, it shouldn't be. It's where people live and toil and kids spill things. Abuse is one thing...normal wear and tear is a sign that something is being used for the purpose for which it was intended...to eat off of, to sit in, to rest one's feet after a long day. I mean, shit, you should see my old Martin guitar...I love that thing like a member of my family, but it looks like it went to war with the Russian army. Forty years and a couple thousand gigs really giving it a hard workout...that's what it was built for, that's what it was meant to do...not sit preserved-toneless and sterile-behind a glass case.

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