Doing all right, man. Just spent a week recovering from an old slip disc. You know what I'm saying?

Where is the slip disc?

My lower right portion of my back. Classic, dude.

Brutal, yeah. I have some bulging discs, some fucked up discs. And yeah, it'll just like, you'll just be fine and then be like, oh, I guess I'm just not getting out of bed today. Yeah, dude. I was like, I went to work Monday. I was like, hmm, my shit feels weird. And then all of a sudden, I was like, oh, fuck, can't walk. Damn, dude. Sorry about that. Yeah, back stuff is the worst. Yeah, it's kind of just like to kind of to the point like it's been

well, Sorry about that. Yeah, back stuff is the worst. Yeah, it's kind of just like to kind of to the point, like it's been one of the things that's been piling up the last couple months. Like 2025 started out pretty sick. Like had a girlfriend, new job, like going to school, relevant to my new career.

Climbing trees and shit doing, like studying arbor culture.

Oh, hell yeah, dude.

But then like February rolls around, end of February, two close friends of mine die.

Like, separate events, like within 24 hours.

Jesus Christ, dude.

Yeah, like they were, we were in abandoned high school and oh sorry to hear that man yeah man like 24 too so it's just like that's the kind of shit

that you're like all right well guess guess we're all just getting punished you know what i mean

yeah yeah yeah but oh right there is no justice or fairness in the world. And even though I knew

that if philosophically, now I'm feeling it personally and it sucks. Yeah. Dude, you're like,

oh, dude, you see like shit die. You see people die. You're like, oh, that could never happen to the

boys. Of course. And then it does. And then so like I was dating the girl I was with for like two

three months when this happened and as you can imagine that's like fucking heavy because I found

out at her apartment oh like she was she was great through it all and like we I broke up with her

like three four weeks ago just because you you know, that happening and then just

a lot of shit going on kind of like, like I'm doing well in school. I'm going to work. I'm

like progressing. And it's just like it's and with the death and like a breakup and just like mental

health shit. Like I've been going to a therapist

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