Yesterday the GG helped our our mouse finish her 2025 100 miles of hiking on the North Country Trail. I think they did a lot of road walking because I have seen this boot before and I think it is on a roadside. I hate road walks but whatever it takes. They had to walk out to this boot and back.

They had lunch in Albion on the way home. Fun fact: my Uncle Don did undergrad at Albion College (and then med school at uMich). My daughters could have actually gotten some kind of discounted tuition at Albion because their great uncle went to school there in the Jurassic Age (go figger). They chose Kalamazoo College instead. It’s okay, With financial aid, we could afford it and it was a great college. So is Albion.

I had a slow day. I am having a slow bit of time. People seem to be worried about me but as a “Finnelson” I will phoenix outta this. It’s what Finnelsons do and I have done it a few times before. I’m just reorganizing myself. I need time and space. Please please please give that to me. It’s much less to do with job loss (a blip with a shit ton of severance pay) than friend loss (Sari). And it’s a goddamn dark fugly time of year.

One thing I am NOT gonna do is jump off the Mackinac Bridge. For the second time in a week or so, the bridge closed today because a suicidal person parked their car and stepped over the rail. Thank the gods, this person was encouraged to step back across the rail onto the bridge and was taken to safety. I cannot actually imagine jumping off the Big Mac but apparently it happens quite frequently and most people don’t hear about it.

But I am okay and cooked turkey “tetrahedron” while kitchen dancing to whatever was on the radio and then we watched Svengoolie, who was playing a nutso vintage movie about robots and the GG fell asleep during that and I sent a pic of that to the beach urchins but will not post it here. I wasn’t sure if he would wake up in a reasonable time for bed but then I heard P-ing noises coming from the bathroom. I was told that was TMI and maybe it is.

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