The thing about being raw, too, is that it never really ends. That’s what I’d like MOST to communicate! It just never does, or at least it hasn’t yet. There’s always some new idiocy or challenge. It’s like a practical joke of some kind. I realize not everybody in my age bracket feels that way, but this is something everybody living has in common, that we’re all still growing, even if some of us look like food for feral hogs.

The new tires came in down at the Ford place. Good!
This is kind of unusual for me, buying tires from a car dealer instead of a tire store. I was all ready to plunk down $500 at nearby Garcia Tires (“Fastest Tires in the North!”), but their distributor didn’t have anything I wanted that would [...]