load-bearing ruins

Lately I’ve embraced letting loose with a really robust “Ahhhhh” after every sip of water. It’s a smoke em if you got em mentality as the human experiment winds down. In the meantime, life still manages to inhabit. Some personal news that I’ve been avoiding talking about here: been in CT allllmost every weekend since March due to [ONGOING SITUATION]. On the plus side I have a new favorite rest stop along the way. It is located across the highway from my old favorite rest stop. The new favorite has cleaner bathrooms and better candy, but a much less creepy gift section. So it certainly wasn’t an easy decision, if that’s what you’re thinking. Another thing I have discovered on my many trips back and forth from CT: a town, that as far as I can tell, is just a mountain covered in different strip malls. After the exit you drive up a bit and there’s a strip mall (this one has an Orangetheory), and then you go up a little higher and there’s a different strip mall (this one has a Red Robin),…