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Thursday Night was great...played some Texas Holdem and hit a good lick and walked away $320 ahead. Ironically as it turned out the conversation at the table was about how many traffic accidents there are in LV.

Friday mornining while driving a company truck I got in a traffic accident....I put in a few hours a month driving a Bobtail from a warehouse to a marshalling yard to a convention center. Sometimes I can sit in a marshalling yard for hours, in which I usually take a nap. Friday I got nailed. Nobody was hurt and the damage was not hugh., but it left me feeling so down...

After I returned home in the afternoon I picked up my e-mail from the night before...My good friend of 33 years told me his 25 year old son had passed away in his sleep from a Grand Mal seizure. His son had graduated college with a degree in History and was going to Graduate School. He was also a surprisingily quick runner in spite of all the infirmities he had in his life... they were extremely substantial requiring many surgerys from infancy on. Its just so unbelivable and so sad..as my friend and his son were so close.

Maybe his son used up his 9 lives with all the surgerys he had to undergo...and his body just had taken enough....