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How many cigarettes have I smoked in my life? This is a question I asked myself as I lit up my latest Marlboro Red. Let’s see.. I was fifteen when I started. A pack a day for the first 15 years. A pack and a half since. Subtract the three years I had quit.. Equals 203,950… Dayum. I’m gonna quit. This year.

Monsieur Lemur put out a survey asking where I’ve been. In asking why I’ve not been on FriendBurst so much lately, he forgot an important category: The NBA Playoffs. I haven’t been on here so much lately because I’ve been watching large sweaty men running up and down the court 7 days a week. Alas, I live in a town that no longer has an NBA team. We’re a regional city too; a team in Seattle would attract fans throughout Idaho and Montana too. In any case, not having any home town bias, I am allowed root for teams that I just have an unexplainable emotional affiliation for…The Orlando Magic… BYE! The Memphis Grizzlies… We’ll see tomorrow… Denver Nuggets… watching them now. The Boston Celtics… Gotta root for the old guys.

My preparations continue in earnest for my trip to Yellowstone National Park at the end of the month. In all honesty, I dunno how I’m going to make it happen. It’s a money thing. I don’t have enough.

I’ll make it happen though. Somehow. It will be the best Tour d’Joko video ever.

I‘ve even come up with a theme for the “main” video- “Life on Top of Magma Chamber”. It’s going to be about geophysics… Rocks. Gasses. The Earth belching out its presence. I can’t wait. I’ll be spending some cold night camping in my van at 8,000 feet altitude, but its going to be so worth it.

So that’s what has been going on… Now, for what has been. A couple months back, I made a “random” video featuring clips from the month of March over the last five years. I do the same tonight for the month of May. The music was once again inspired by something I heard on a TV commercial.