It started last Christmas. My friends Troy and Katie sent us an epoxy resin starter kit from Amazon EU* that included a couple of bottles of A/B mix, some mica powder colors, and some mixing tools. When I called to thank them, Troy explained that there was more coming.
“Great,” I responded. Then we waited for the next package to arrive. When it did, it contained the final thing we needed to actually play with the resin kit: a silicon mold. See, the way this works is you mix up the liquid resin, add in some color or glitter or what have you, and then pour the whole thing into a mold. Without the mold, you’re not really making anything, instead, just doing a lot of mixing. It’s like mixing up the cake batter but then just leaving it in the bowl.
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My question this week is “If you could thank anyone, who and why?” Before I delve deep into whatever metaphorical or metaphysical answer I might come up with, I need to start by saying I’d thank my parents because I forgot at my Bar Mitzvah, which was 41 years ago, and they still haven’t let it go.
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Friendship is such an interesting topic. It seems like there should be a checklist someplace you can go through to decide if someone is a friend or not. I mean when you’re asking yourself what qualities you value in your friends, wouldn’t it make sense to have a list of qualities in general? I did an article once, about online dating services, and in several of them, the participants had to answer extensive questionnaires which were then matched up according to a mystic algorithm and involving the sacrifice of a rubber chicken. 
At the time of this writing, I am 53 years old. This means I’ve celebrated my 21st birthday twice at this point, which in turn means the original celebration, way back in 1988, was a long time ago and my memory is going to be faulty at best, revisionist at worst, and most likely completely wrong. 
Here it is, my first question from 
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