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It was the most difficult thing I've ever done, but it was also the single most character forming experience of my life. I am better and stronger for it. All I had to do was believe that I could get through it. All I had to do was make tiny strides to overcome it.

Nicholas, I don't know you, but we happen to have a few mutual friends who care about you and who reached out to me. When I was first freelancing and just recently married, I wound up with a tax obligation that I was certain would ruin me. I got through it a day and a dollar at a time.

Can't lie. My hockey superstition weighed heavily against the chance of a lifetime. Selfishness won in the end.

II, too, have this disease. Dating myself, but it's been decades for me... but this Lord of the Rings set had me standing in line for prerelease last Friday. Since then I've been building / tweaking decks most days.