A Meandering Mind

Musings, Rants and General Observations on Life, Food, Travel, Relationships, Pretty Much Anything...

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2016 Block & Tackle Cabernet Sauvignon

2016 Block & Tackle Cabernet Sauvignon

I love great “value” wines. For a wine drinker, there are few things better than buying a low-cost bottle of wine, opening it, and having it surprise you, outpacing its cost with good flavor and quality. The 2016 Block & Tackle Cabernet Sauvignon did exactly that for me. I bought this wine at a local wine shop (shout out to Sunset and Vinein Blowing Rock, NC for this selection.  Support your…

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What Do They Know That We Don’t?

What Do They Know That We Don’t?

Was walking today and noticed two kids meeting for the first time at a playground.. Within five minutes they were running around and playing together, laughing and enjoying themselves. A black girl and a young white boy. What do they know that we adults can’t seem to grasp?

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Review of Pathfinder 2E Rule-Set

Review of Pathfinder 2E Rule-Set

I’ve been playing Pathfinder RPG for about 10 years now. Back then, I liked they based it on D&D 3.5 rule set, which was the basis of my campaign back then. I also liked it wasn’t Wizards of the Coast, and it wasn’t D&D 4th Edition. It’s a poor way to choose a rule set based on what it is NOT, but having been a D&Der since the boxed set days, I was burned out by the constant rule edition changes…

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A Few Hours in Siena

A Few Hours in Siena

During one of our day trips from Florence was a few hours visiting the city of Siena.  A few hours is not long enough to discover a city like Siena, but it provided a glimpse into this famous Tuscan town, with the promise we might return one day to explore it further.

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Since my Missus and I are traveling this weekend, I couldn’t celebrate Gary Gygax day yesterday, in remembrance of the D&D co-creator’s birthday. Here is a shot of a boss fight in a session early this month. Thank you Gary for a lifetime of fun and adventure with all my fellow nerds and geeks, where we created fantastic worlds of our own to escape the ignorance and prejudice of the real one. #gaming #dnd #gamerforlife (at Chapel Hill, North Carolina)

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Tuscany: Bad Backs, Bad Roads and Bad Drivers

Tuscany: Bad Backs, Bad Roads and Bad Drivers

I have a bad back.  I would love to say it was due to an old football injury or the result of saving an old lady from a burning building, but the truth of it is I’m just an overweight computer geek.  Bad backs are as much a part of our DNA as comic books and Monty Python quotes.

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OK, I’ll Ask...

OK, I’ll Ask…

…How does Trump KNOW that Russian meddling into the 2016 Elections didn’t affect the election’s outcome?  Seems to me that fact would be impossible to quantify.

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I Honestly Hope I’m Wrong...

... but I predict one day the name Trump will be synonymous with Benedict Arnold as a traitor to America.

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To my fellow citizens: I don’t like to post political or incendiary thoughts on Instagram. I like that it is more about positive things. But as an American, it would be unpatriotic not to voice my disgust and displeasure at the terrible spectacle Trump made in Helsinki this morning. Echoes of Neville Chamberlain ran through my mind as our President stood next to Putin and sided with Russia against our own country. While the United States has been sliding for some time, this morning it slipped over the precipice. I am heartbroken in happened in my lifetime... #ashamed #heartbroken #resist

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Jesus, the poor man is fighting brain cancer but can still think and articulate clearly and more effectively than President Twit.

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Stunned...

Stunned…

I am astounded by Trump siding with the Russians against his own country’s intelligence community.  We have reached a low in this presidency I would have never foreseen.  Republicans:  your silence in the face of this event is DEAFENING.

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Trapped By My Success

Trapped By My Success

One of the prime attributes of any successful entrepreneur is a sense of restlessness.  We always want to be engaged; planning, implementing and improvising to achieve our goals.  This is extremely important when we are in startup; like a prizefighter we counter-punch, side-step, and plot for an opportunity to deliver a knockout blow.  This restlessness keeps us motivated.  But what happens when…

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Logic Doesn't Work

Logic Doesn’t Work

Never bother to try and use logic with a Trump supporter, it’s a Catch-22.  If logic was important to them, they wouldn’t be supporting Trump.

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Theodore Roosevelt

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

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Nativist racists with not one ounce of real patriotism. #KnowYourEnemy

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Sorry, I Can't Forgive Stupidity

Sorry, I Can’t Forgive Stupidity

I was talking to a friend the other day, and he said Donald Trump is doing a “great job”, to which I replied, “In what fictional universe?”  I get it, a lot of people voted for Trump because they hated Hillary Clinton and he was an outsider candidate.  I was extremely disappointed in the election outcome, but he won it fair-and-square (well, at the time I thought it was fair-and-square) and I…

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