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Yeah, like that's an unusual occurrence.

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Listening's Razz Blog is what I'm "pimping" I guess. Though it is not monetized, so not sure how I get paid. I have to say I am starting out badly, inspired to start this to share my last post, which I just put up, about the dumbest serious Razz advice I ever read. I was laughing so hard while reading I had to stop. Anyway, click above if curious, I included most of it, but follow the link in the blog for the real thing.

It might get better.

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I'm being negative right off, I keep saying I'm going to stop but THEY MADE ME DO IT!!!

After I finally finish this Razz book I am writing, I'd decided to put the "About the Author" right here. I talk a lot but haven't said too much about me, except in a metaphysics kinda forum on 2p2 where I was told on several occasions to seek mental health assistance.

Too late!

Being an old broad with a couple toes at the edge of the grave might be why I thought I'd pick some place and leave my story. I like it here. And no one has to read it. I still get to talk.

So, post-book, around October end, I'll meander back this way and fill the pages with night terrors and outraged nuns and sex in the 60's. It will be, by definition:

TMI

...with poetry... Yikes!

You may want to start avoiding this thread now and beat the rush.

Prayin' for youse gize as always,

Lis~


TT once threatened to ban me because I told someone in a PM I was praying for them. True story!

[Agent ]-[arbinger]

Gl with your book! See you soon.
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This link will take you to Thuy's last blog entry here on PR. I wasn't going to post in here for a few weeks, but I have something I want to say, too long as usual for a comment, may be controversial for some. I didn't want to start anything, just say something to Thuy about something she wrote in her blog:

It’s not death itself that breaks my heart but loss of potential to do great things.

Thuy, I have no idea how this will turn out as far as becoming cancer-free someday or passing relatively young. But I am almost 61 years old, and as much a cranky old curmudgeon as I am getting to be, I know something I'd like to share with you:

You will never lose your potential to do great things. Ever. Live here in Time or on the Other Side, and you will, indeed, have the opportunity for greatness.

Especially you. What we know about you either by personal contact or by witness of those who know you: you are of great spirit. People like you often leave this world early and move on to do those great things. And, people like you are often beset here by enormous challenges that lead to the doing of great things here, and the strengthening of spirit that prepares them for the important tasks waiting for them.

We think doing a great thing could be - I dunno, being the first woman to win the WSOP ME. We are small thinkers. Because it doesn't occur to us how something like that is dwarfed by the enormous greatness of courage in the face of a lifetime of struggle, threat of death. It is the process of you, Thuy, and not anyone else, going through your life this day, the next hour, the next year, making your choices for love and hope even when you feel despair and rage that is truly Greatness on a Cosmic scale we cannot even imagine.

And it matters. That is an energy for light and hope that permeates the world.

It isn't that you will ever lose any chance, I promise. It is that you, like all of us, have the potential for greatness right this moment and every moment. And whether your body stops soon or in the more distant future, you and your potential will always be.

God bless you abundantly, Thuy,

maggie

[rrumsey]

great post listening!

[Twister]

This is a only a test!

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^^^^^ That's my daughter. I know, she kind've a dog...





BWAAAAAAHHHHH-HA-HA-HA-HAH!!

eh - she never thinks I'm funny, either

Anyway, she's on this business trip in D.C. Some conference that I think is called "Doing Computer Stuff Your Parents Will Never Understand." Something like that, anyway.

So, these hotels usually have pretty nice rooms and for the corporate clients when they host these conferences, but she calls when she gets there to tell me they upgraded her to a suite - a BIG one. She figures when business is slow they upgrade to keep the clients coming back. So she's describing it for me and tells me it has leather walls.

I told her since it was D.C. and not Vegas, the people who could afford them had too much taste to stay in them.



oh, c'mon, that was kinda funny....

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I'm always telling people to play happy, not a meaningless slogan, solid advice. In my 1st blog post of 2011. listening's Razz blog...

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Requiem, revisited | The Loom | Discover Magazine

I posted over at 2+2 one day that you don't get Twitter because you have to post every moment of your life online, but because it's the best custom-design-it-yourself news service ever. I follow poker stuff and people, the Dalai Lama (I keep hoping some of the goodness will wear off on me and I'll improve somehow) and some science stuff.

Since too many do not have a Twitter account and don't have the wisdom to follow me if you did (@realListening) you don't get to see all the stuff I retweet. (My stuff is not so interesting, tho' I do post a joke almost every morning). So, I think I'll drop some of the things I like best in here.

This one is sorta sad-ish but I can see the girl's spirit at work and in a science context, I just thought it was cool.

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Pimping my last few blog posts:

Why "Grandma Degen?"

Here's the thing: not really a grandma. Unless you count these two:
The big one has passed - best dog ever. The little one is - well - hard tellin.' Pugs have brains more like ours, this one is a bit psychic. There is also the fact that I am obnoxiously in love with her snorty-ass self. Still, I admit, not really a grandma.

But if my child had started having children at the age I did, instead of making a big old career for herself, that granddaughter in my mind would be 15 now. It'd be great! Like so many, she'd probably hate her mother and just adore fabulous me. Parents best revenge is the children their children have. I resent being denied mine.


But while I am not a Grandma, I am the age of one, especially relative to the other degens. So... I think I am a "degen?" I didn't use to think that at all. Then, one day....

(for more go here: Grandma Degen: Why "Grandma Degen?")



Then, one of my favorite blogger/tweeters (Rakewell/@Pokergrump) posted the link to the British Mother Teresa "expose" and, having always meant to write something about it, I finally have time and did. Both the links to the videos of the show and the response are here: Grandma Degen: The Mother Teresa Controversy

On the Razzfront, I have to do something with the $5 on Full Tilt so Grandma Degen: The Mother Teresa Controversy

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I posted a link before, I think, to something I blogged about called "Pursuing Decrepitude." My daughter never saw that post until yesterday and she wrote me a response in email, which she gave me permission to post. Here's a link, you can skip down to her, if you've already read mine, or do that because, let's face it, she's smarter than I am and well-worth the read.

Grandma Degen: Pursuing Decrepitude Part II - BGE Answers