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[the_silver_poet]

I have been kind of hard to get hold of lately. I miss my friends(you). I have been playing on the denver poker tour and have been doing ok. I have won one of the tourneys and have placed in top 8 over 35 times. I keep winning bar tabs for like 10 to 50 dollars but dont drink anything but soda pop. I ussually have plenty of healthy drinkers who like free drinks around me tho. I am playing to compete for a 10,000 dollar buy-in at world series poker tour in las vegas. The chance to make money in that one is over 5 million. Have had a lot of bad luck lately with blowing tires on a borrowed truck and sales are way down right now. Reality has hit hard with a couple of things. Even as I speak my brother is in intensive care for the third day in a row on a machine keeping him alive after having a massice asthma attack. I am not happy about this(ie... IT IS DRIVING ME CRAZY ON INSIDE) but having faith in the Doctors and God. My uncle is dying of brain cancer after just having brain surgery to remove a big tumor that they didnt get it all out. I am trying to be tough and rationalize it out and be strong for others but I am but a shell of what is really happening. I shouldnt vent or lay my problems out there. Some good news is that the VA is going to help me with some of my medical problems. So much is going on that I am but a piece of dirt flying in the tornado life wondering where I am going to land and if I am already mud or not. lol. I hope things go better for all of you.

I am a song in motion that hasnt been played in tune. - Donald Oday Pickett Jr. Live Journal.