Phew! It's finally over...

These 11-12 day events take it out of me... I'm babysitting my phone all day long, charging it back up to full halfway through the afternoon and again before bed, back on it for 30 minutes at a time every time I get up to use the bathroom in the night, falling asleep with it on my chest over and over, using my wife's TikTok addiction to offset the appearance of my own addiction to this damn thing.

I had 2nd place for a few days before the road to the finish line, then somebody caught up and took it from me and left me in the DUST... Every time I started to re-close that gap against them, they'd double it... Kudos to them, I guess... I'll settle for 3rd this time around.

"I'm gettin too old for this shit." -- Detective Roger Murtaugh.