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Sunday, April 5, 2020 This May we were supposed to celebrate our tenth anniversary. My wife and I were thinking of taking the kids to New York. Visit the Natural History Museum, walk around Central Park, see the Statue of Liberty, maybe even catch a show. But obviously that's out of the question now. In addition to my 10 year wedding anniversary, 2o20 is also significant because I am now exactly the same age my father was when he died. In fact, I've outlived him by a couple…
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Monday, April 6, 2020 Long after I graduated from university, I enrolled in this creative writing class at a nearby community college. It's the only creative writing class I've ever taken, and I thought I'd share something I learned during the three month course. What I'm going to share wasn't even part of the normal lesson. During one of our breaks, the professor chatted with me about a short story I'd written. He wanted to discuss the ending of my story. I guess back then…
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020 Not sure why I'm dating these posts. Every day is almost an exact replica of the one that came before. Since most of us are on lock down, I've been thinking about who I feel the sorriest for. It has to be the 18 to 30 crowd right? The people who are supposed to be going out the most, meeting new people, experiencing new things. I'm sorry if this is sentimental, but it made me recall the first time I ever went out on a date. I was sixteen years old and…
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Wednesday, April 8, 2020 I didn't have much growing up. Our family immigrated to this country when I was five, and four years later my dad died. Considering mom had never held a job, and couldn't speak a lick of English, it amazes me that she was able to raise me and my little brother on her own the way she did. I remember every so often we would visit with a social worker to prove our existence and qualify us for welfare. Those were rough times, but we got through it. Years…
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Thursday, April 9, 2020 We were nursing the same drinks we'd ordered an hour earlier. I’d been doing most of the talking, she’d hardly said more than a few words. But I didn’t feel like I was talking to myself because I could see in her eyes she was listening. It was a blind date set up by a mutual friend of ours. I hadn’t expected anything to come of it until I saw her standing outside the restaurant, waiting for me. She was so stunning I suddenly felt under dressed for the…
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Friday, April 10, 2020 Do you know I've been working on the same book for twenty years? They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. I don't think I'm insane, but who knows. It all started one night in college when I couldn't sleep. As my roommate slept on the opposite side of the room, I lay there on my extra long twin, thinking about nothing other than the fact that I couldn't sleep. Eventually I thought…
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Saturday, April 11, 2020 My wife has the best nose. It's like her superpower the way she can smell things from great distances. We'll be out and, out of nowhere, I'll see her start sniffing the air letting me know her nose has caught some distant scent. "Do you smell that?" she'll ask. "No," I'll invariably answer. "I think someone's smoking," she might say. Almost always it's usually something unpleasant. It's why I ultimately quit smoking as well. I couldn't fool her darn…
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - So cringe No one has ever bothered asking me why I want to be a writer. They usually ask what kind of stories I like to write, but never why I write them. Maybe it's because the answer seems obvious. I guess it would be no different from asking someone why they want to be a singer, or an actor, or an artist. I'd imagine for anyone creative, the reason they do what they do is because they believe they have something they want to share with the world.…
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1. How Money Works *For a while, I've been wanting to better understand how money works in our world. This article is my attempt at organizing my thoughts on the subject, with the hope that others will read it and help guide my knowledgeable. So if I get anything wrong, please feel free to correct me in the comments as well as share any new insights that might be useful. Mostly I'm hoping to start a discussion on these issues so that we can all better understand the…
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2. How a Bitcoin Cash economy might handle a crisis At the end of my last post, "1. How many works", I found myself asking: How would a Bitcoin Cash ("BCH") economy deal with the current coronavirus crisis? https://read.cash/@Cain/1-how-money-works-08b74067 First, let me say that I chose BCH as opposed to Bitcoin ("BTC") because it is the version of Bitcoin that aims to be money for the world, whereas BTC merely aims to be digital gold. The vision for BCH is to be a new form…
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BCC#13: Signs of life for Bitcoin Cash ***Saturday, April 25, 2020*** I've just finished my sixth week of being under lockdown, and I'm starting to forget what normal life was like. Since I have some extra time on my hands, last week I finally read my first book by Murray Rothbard: "What Has Government Done to Our Money?" My quickie review is that it's short but packs a punch. It taught me more about the relatively recent history of money and its evolution. It also…
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Testing the new read.cash points system In case you weren't aware, read.cash has implemented a new fund to attract users. Currently the fund is showing a total of $2,342, but I believe the actual amount is closer to $30,000 based on the top donors listed at the top of the site (update: top donors are for read.cash overall, not the fund itself). The fund will be distributed to the site's users based on an intricate points system. Click the link for details, but the basic gist…