Mad Doc

Thank you Merlin as well as Monkie and any others who have offered me this this honor. Monkie had said that there is a Moderator tag but I honestly have never seen it. What do I add?

Sorry to hear this. Hope you heal fully and quickly!

I am pleased to be accepted as a member of XI, and happily accept the invitation. Thanks to the admins who sponsored me and to all the members who supported me. My 2 years as a player has been great and being a member just makes it that much better. (Besides my wife says, that considering the name of the Clan, I am now right where I belong.) Thanks again for the honor.

You nailed it Opto. Too much self and not enough concern for others. Add ignorance and misinformation to that and it can be deadly. Then there are those who honestly think we are over this thing (I was a bit guilty of that myself and I got burnt.) and those are the major reasons we will never be over it until we get a lucky mutation or people wake up (not gonna happen)

The goal may be a Utopian platitude, but the reality is that working in that direction is essential to survival

Yes. Precisely why we must quit thinking in obsolete terms. Everything is global. Nationalism is a fatal pathway.

Yes, that is a major concern, but my post was primarily regarding our failure to correct years of human rights denial and failure to correct years of 'blind eye' politics. Our arrogance and steadfast belief that we are the 'greatest country' in the world in the face of much evidence to the contrary smacks of Rome's attitude as the Empire fell around them.

"We are not as good as we once were...and we never were." I still love my country and I have always known that we could do better, and the first step in that direction is to take the quote to heart. The realization of imperfection requires real introspective thought and dedication to improvement on that level. We will never convince some and that goal may neve be reached. It is the journey that matters.

It has been 58 years for me and I still get that nostalgic and WTF? feeling when I run across an old text or other memory of those days. I still think sometimes, in spite of the facts that I was always broke that these may have been the best days of my life (and I have had a good life).

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The symptoms came on too fast for you to have contracted it on Paddy's day. Must have been exposed earlier. Not sure about your numbers but I would take 12% to odds against having this again. I don't understand why someone would not.

Nice to get back to playing today. Felt almost like usual.

Cheer up Opto. Just look forward to kicking my a.. regularly and easily when I get back in after all this rust has built up. That will be a double energy boost I am sure.

Definitely feeling much better but my Covid test still lights up like a Christmas tree. Oh well, where the hell was I planning to go anyway. Likely will be in game (WAW) tomorrow. Being able to kick a few XI (and others) asses in there will be healing I am sure.