It's all been done....

I think I am coming to the end of my blogging rope, so to speak. Thinking back about 2.5 years ago, I can't remember why I started this blog in the first place. It may be because a good friend of mine, Jetboy, started a blog and I couldn't stand for him to get all of the attention and kudos. More likely though is that I considered it an opportunity to develop my writing skills, a talent I always felt I had but never really explored, the occasional poetry contest aside (yes, that's right, poetry).

Looking back, it's been interesting. My initiation into blogging coincided with an unusual period of my life in which I thought I was going to become a millionaire playing online poker. Though I did very well considering my lowly stakes, it was not to be, and reading my earlier blogs shows just how consumed I was with that "sport". I always told myself that I wasn't addicted, that like Nick Nolte in "Down and Out in Beverly Hills" I could get out of my undies, shave off the 10 day beard, drop some visine into my bloodshot eyes and return to a normal life when the time came. And in that sense I was right, though like an addict there is a long period of time, in my mind, that is now simply unaccounted for and might have been spent more constructively, just like my parents said (repeatedly).

I realize I have been going through the motions with this blog for a little too long, and when reading some of my more recent posts made me cringe, I decided to give it up. For now. I know I have said "adieu" in the past, only to return a few weeks later, so that is why I hesitate to say this is the final post. So in classic Hollywood style I will, stifling a sob and wiping a single tear from my eye, turn and say "this is not a good-bye. This is a see you later"...

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Until we meet again.

Marto