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Don’t mean to whine but, the area of S. OR I live in has been so smokey from Wildfires for the last 4 weeks it’s like we live in a camp fire. I realize thousands of people lost their houses and when worse than we are and my thoughts and prayers are with them. Last week it was reported that our air quality was 8 times worse than Los Angeles. It’s been so thick that at times the visibility is less than 400 yards or so, and just a short walk outside causes me to feel like I’ve smoked 2 packs of cigarettes. I’m not sure what’s in this smoke but it has me feeling really strang and hungry most of the time.(iD wink but my eyes are too squinty) I keep telling myself it’s all in my mind. (Even though it’s mostly in my lungs) It’s not like I’m out training to climb Mt Everest or to play on Chimborazo.(About as much chance of that as one of the Harbaugh’s heading my sons Pop Warner team and one of them winning the Heisman) Nada! Id just like to take a walk without hacking. As much as I Love smoke on my Bacon (and lesser pork), I’m so sick of it being in my lungs and eyes. When I work outside in it, It makes me want to stop. but for some reason I keep having visions of my old high school coach, Coach V yelling through the smoke “never give up” and my Great Aunt Frances (she practically raised me and made great BLTs BTW) who used to always scream at me “quitters never win and winners never quit”. (probably my recent head trauma
) So I put on the crappy recommended paper mask I got at Oberlin’s back on and keep going. There’s no end predicted and some of the old timers here say it could last till Christmas, but what do those old farts know. One of my friends from Oaxaca who was a jimadore said the amount of smoke reminds him of when they used to roast pinās. All I know as it’s so thick you couldn’t cut it with a sword. I don’t really know who what when where why about it but I wish it would go away. Being not able to go outside much gives me plenty of time to think what the next release could be. Could it be a sword? I’d love to see a nice Kappa Maki or Makazushi hit the trough. Even though you don’t see the Physical effects of it in people much, it really shows in the Motivation and Personality of people. We’re heading north this weekend to hopefully escape it. I hope Cape Perpetua will be far enough North. As nice as it is here most of the time and as much as I like living here this smoke makes me want to Handover the Keys at times. The only break we get has been from around midnight till daylight and that’s just not enough time. I hope you guys are’t this affected by smoke this year.Sorry for the rant, I just needed to vent.
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you too.
