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• A twisted analogy

  June 13, 2025

  Imagine you are out for a stroll one day and you come upon someone walking a large, powerful looking dog. Which wouldn't be all that unusual, except for the fact that this dog has on a muzzle and perhaps is being held back by a choker chain. My reaction would be to wonder what that…

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• An impressive sight

  June 9, 2025

  One year ago today I found myself standing in a wild and rugged landscape as I beheld something that was both incredible and fearsome. I had journeyed to the center of the mountain state, West Virginia, just to see this very thing in person. A little more than a year ago I was unaware of…

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• When I ignored my gut feelings

  June 8, 2025

  It was exactly a year ago to this day that I was driving from Sandusky, Ohio, to Fayetteville, West Virginia on my way back from Cedar Point. The weather was nearly perfect, with blue skies and warm spring air that lacked the often oppressive humidity of summers in the eastern US. The time was cl...

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• What I did last summer

  June 7, 2025

  Nearly a year has gone by since I took a weekend vacation and made a side trip to visit West Virginia's star attraction. I made this stop on my way back from going to Cedar Point last June. Last year, Coastermania, which is that park's annual roller coaster enthusiast event, was held on June the&...

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• You can never go home again…

  June 6, 2025

  Just the other day, for some strange reason, I decided to view my childhood town on a satellite map. I had been thinking about that creepy old dead tree that once loomed over the woods behind the house across the street from me. The tree fell in a windstorm over forty years ago, so it…

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• State oddities

  May 29, 2025

  This morning I was going thru my email and I had some time to read some of the various newsletters that clog up my inbox. I have no idea from where some of these unsolicited repetitive emails come, nor how I have ended up somehow subscribing to them. Some do have interesting content, assuming I&h...

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• The awakening

  May 28, 2025

  It was on this very day, May the 27th, eighty eight years ago, that something truly monstrous made its debut. An awakening, of sorts, had occurred that day late in the month of May. This was a thing that had slowly come together over a period of a few years and was finally ready to…

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• Flying high…

  May 24, 2025

  This past weekend I enjoyed my first coaster trip of 2025 as a friend and I spent almost three days between Busch Gardens Williamsburg and Kings Dominion. We got to ride pretty much every coaster we wanted to ride, and while the weather on Friday and Saturday was hot, we did not have to contend&h...

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• The tragedy of a poor design…

  May 11, 2025

  The other night I watched a documentary on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which happened almost 40 years ago on April the 26th, 1986. While it has been known for some time that the cause of this disaster was entirely preventable, new details were presented that demonstrated the extreme extent of...

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