quote=Lefty the Salesman;5806132]Stopping caffeine is a solid maneuver.

Masceter! Tried our new weed destroyer today, the most powerful available on the island, a Husqvarna beast that whips two lines of plastic-coated metal cable instead of the usual plastic string. Despite its formidable power, it couldn't tame the switchgrass in our South 40, a formidable disappointment. I realize as I write this how mundane it is, but welcome to my world.

I had a sleep apnea test ($195 copay whether you have apnea or not) at Queen's Hospital Saturday night, woke at 4:40 AM, then couldn't sleep until after midnight on Sunday, resulting in a sleep hygeine crisis that required a dose of an antipsychotic. I love the word antipsychotic.

In other news, one of the biggest hurricanes in recorded history is aiming to plow into Florida and cryptocurrencies are surging. I'm not suggesting a correlation, but you can come to your own conclusions.

The DPRK, having tested what they claim was a hydrogen bomb that caused a 6.3 magnitude earthquake that shook buildings in China, is now preparing to launch an ICBM, which will probably prompt Trump to do something stupid.

South Korea and Japan are requesting deployment of American tactical nukes, as the 2+ hours that would take for American strategic bombers stationed in Guam to arrive would be too long if the DPRK went nonlinear.

There's no viable military option against the DPRK because in the unlikely event that America, Japan and the ROK could eliminate every DPRK nuclear asset in a first strike, they wouldn't be able to neutralize their massive corps of artillery that would turn everything from the DMZ to Seoul into an ashtray and kill 10+ million people.

I wish I could smoke boo with Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin and straighten everything out, which I realize smacks of manic delusion. I know enough Korean to get into trouble, but not enough to get out of it. I could don a judo gi and have Putin slam me around a mat if it would help. Kim and Xi can kick me when I'm down.

Reunification is near.

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Great Stuff!

After reading your description of world events it has become clear to me that there are many things out of our control that can cause us pain and suffering. All we can do is: