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Inspirational video. I’m trying to follow your exercise plan. I loved the comment about Wolfe.
I don’t think it is just writers who suffer from the, “I have this great idea, why don’t you do it and we will split the profits.” I have a name for those people. I call them time vampires, because that is really all they are. The people who do things generally have way more ideas than time, and time is the fire in which we burn.
You pegged it, sir!
Finally, something put on YouTube that actually has some relevance. Thanks, Joe.
Wallace