Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast live stream number 45.

Hard to believe it's number 45 already.

With time standing still, how have we done so many live streams?

It is hard to imagine.

It's hard to imagine.

I found myself tweeting about where we were in history and claiming that it was still

August even though we were nearly halfway through September at the time.

But I'm not embarrassed.

I'm just going with it.

Yeah.

I feel like our particular situation here and personalities and living situation allowed

us to get through lockdown, which is still persisting with a fair bit of grace.

But the effective lockdowns that the fires have caused now in the Pacific Northwest are

actually really doing a number on both of us.

Being actually forced to stay inside and still having air quality inside begin to decay

because no building is completely smoke-proof is...

Well, it's actually exhausting on top of everything else.

It's actually tiring to feel this kind of trapped.

Yeah.

It's both physically tiring.

I have a feeling that I feel I'm doing better with the smoke than I would have expected.

But it's beginning to be physically tough to just deal with it day after day.

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