camo legs and all

I have decided to refer to my stems as camo mottled--that's what happens when you use your body as a counter weight vs just dead-lifting everything. But, if you knew me at all, you'd realize I take that as a suggestion, not as a rule (avoiding that). I hate depending on people for stuff I can do, and clearly maybe I shouldn't do it, but let's be real--I am terrible at depending on other people as a general rule.

Of course I have escaped some of the trappings of relying on just me with my semi-retirement last November. In hindsight it was obviously all the best timing with that anyways. I mean, yeah, my bp was in the high 150's so definitely not something to continue on, but with the valve in there fucking everything up, it ended up being a pretty easy decision to justify later, though I certainly didn't tell anyone in my family for a bit...well, the family I know well, of course.

So, we high-tailed it out of Denver a little over a week ago now--we have been in Virginia for some days and wow, what a difference. Nothing here is on fire, in fact it's ...