I Quit !


A "Living Legend" steps back and views his 66+ years.


This has happened following a series of bad beats [including a huge robbery]


The first half of the year I "earned" $66,500; and by year's end I was "Even"


Volatility I no longer welcome in (what remains of) my life.


Money really has nothing to do with this transcendence < ? >


The other issue for me was an "internal" problem.


I am becoming progressively (if slowly) demented.


I am now an "absent-minded professor"


although my complex "counting" is unaffected.


I am having cataract surgery on both eyes in Jan.


I can no longer see the dealer's name-tags !


Diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, spinal stenosis, arthritis,


fibromyalgia, gout, etc. have inexorably taken their toll.


So now I read voraciously and engage in other avocations.


It became a difficult philosophical decision in the end.

In any case I will continue to haunt these hallowed spaces

posting regularly as instructor emeritus and elder statesman.

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