"lost causes" that aren't

Even though packing is no fun,

Alas, my riddling must be done.

I wish you all luck & well

While I'm gone, just for a spell.

I might have 2 / 3 and an answer ...

Orson Welles

Walter Scott

????

Orson Scott Card, author?

[I'm not Monopoly jail]

forgotten password or hacked computer

OK t_l111, enjoy your weekend away from your machine.

Thanks to all...

Oh I will! & Thanks to everyone who took care of the last bits while I've been torturing myself writing up project reports ... Ditto deannaart & Typical!

Thanks for the fun PG! See y'all next week!

winning lottery tickets

Oh well, too slow!

hey, that last post was my 1000th! Yay for me! I think I should celebrate or something!

Yea hurray huzzah!!! Congratulations!

[spoiler=Love my reasoning here ]

Chocolate cake & ice cream!

Come to me and I may help,

You feel good about yourself. It makes everything seem better!

How you ask, I cannot say. But I can ... it's called theobromine.

Cut and pull, but feel no pain. Make a delicious slice and put it on the plate.

Rolling, notching, then you die. That ice cream won't scoop (roll) itself! Stick a fork into it (notches), put it on your tongue, & experience heaven.

I've been known to make you cry. Fabulous cake can do that!

lifeline's no aid

no aid, leaves just:

lifeline

And in "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" a lifeline is another way you find the answer?

'Cause in -> causing?

I had been speculating "store" (armory used for nat'l guard storage) since there is a clothing line ... but doesn't seem like something our PG would do (since it's not the name of the designer). Still stuck.

Ah, sleep allows the words to make more sense. Good riddle!

Was trying them in combination instead of separately. So yea!

Lilies!

Easter - lily

Eli - Lilly (pharmaceutical co)

Palm Lily? Some of them are kinda funny looking.

& that's the last of my brainpower for 2:30 AM. Maybe after sleep ...

You get a sense of me, little too late

But that’s just my nature, mean twist of fate

I will haunt till the end, might break you down

Bottom of a bottle, to sink and drown

"should have done"'s

I did a good bit of googling in my "spare time" today & couldn't find a direct connection between Easter & Eli,

that all the words will start with E?

Endure/enduring/endures or similar.

Then carve may indicate removal of letters?

@ chicory & others playing ... I hope we manage to solve this by early Saturday morning or I'm going to be frustrated this weekend (away from computer) ... we can do it!

Well, thought I'd put this one in there but didn't.

Letter of the alphabet, E

You have no idea how irritated I was to look in my periodic table & find the 5th element is not Lithium (Li) !!! Maybe the thinking is off on my namesake?

5th element - soul/heart/spirit, Boron (B)

measure of alcohol

chord/scale/other music related

Beethoven's

bank

avenue

pinky finger/toe

day of creation - animals of land, air, sea

month of May

insurance

"arm(s)" - swap letters around & get mar(s), ram(s)

another possibility

maybe Salvation Army?

Trade in Kind: Salvation - saving, rescue, redemption, pardon

attention

miscarriage

the end

a key

Clear!

Down!

Help!

WTF!

You see me out there waiting

I’m staring you right in the face

I am rarely deviating

From start to finish in this race

I ravage many who are weak

For others I’m a chance to rise

I’m pressing closer as we speak

My appearance is no surprise

the finish line, or time

or REAL LIFE for me at the moment

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