 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome to something completely new. I don't know if any of you guys are gonna like it. I know this was requested by a bunch of you guys during the stream. But without further ado, E here. So it has been brought to my attention that some of you would like to see vlogs from me. So I'm going to show you the walking track that I've been doing. Sorry, this is like lap 11, I think. And I'm tired. I'm sweaty. I'm hot. So without further ado, this is my walking track. Hey, I got a schoolhouse, old schoolhouse. I don't use it anymore. There's a bathroom there on the right. And then a gazebo way over there. I don't know if you can see it. It is a brick church, my vehicle, a playground, and then all the way back to that gazebo over there. They walk horses out here. So there's horse crap all over. Adds a, you know, a feeling of adventure trying to mist the horseshit. Y'all, I'm tired. Alright, so if you're in case you're wondering what I was listening to, I had the earbuds in. I'm listening to Harts and Atlantis to refresh my memory. Because after I get done with this string, these last nine episodes of Thursday theorist, once I get done with that, I'm going to take probably a week break and I'm going to jump right back into it with Harts and Atlantis and then I'm going to do all of the novella collections out of order because of the way I want to talk about them. So and then we're going to do the short story collections. Then we're going to do the collaborations. And then we're going to do the Dark Tower series. No, the Bachman books before the, no, we'll do them after the collaborations. So the Bachman books will be last before we go into the Dark Tower. Anyways, so I'm going to go home and take about eight showers. I'm not driving, by the way. I didn't want anybody to think that I was driving. I'm just sitting here. So I'm not being an idiot. I promise. Back again. Fiber, the new fire pit. $200 at Lowes. Really nice. Anyway, it is Mother's Day and we are about to grill out, have a cookout. Then we are going to put some logs in the new fire pit. It's a very chill day. If you follow me on Twitter, it was an exciting morning, though. But Mother's Day is coming to an end. And we are going to spend time with the ladies in our life. Right now, my mother is inside and Shell is inside. But soon we will all be out here enjoying ourselves. There's the ever famous Ashie. Ash. Yeah, say hi. Hey, yeah, what's up? What are we doing? Cooking out. Autumn said we're being stupid. Not really. They're older playing dolls. She's so pretty. Oh, there's Chris. Say hi, Chris. What are we doing tonight, Chris? Cooking out and I'm being stupid. Just like a little brother. And I'm taking torches. I feel like a white supremacist. Because they don't want to. Come here. They said you can't tell me what to do, human. Or yourself. Don't burn myself. No, it's going to stick to the spatula. Open spray the spatula. I don't have no spray. Butter it. Butter it. You want me to butter the spatula? We need to have a discussion on how to cook. We're going to butter the spatula, y'all. This is how we butter the spatula. I got a spatula. Ah, what that is. Oh my goodness. Okay, so... I've been in the vent for a couple of days. Mother's Day, as you guys saw in the last couple of clips. By the way, I'm back at the track, the same track you guys saw in the first clips. This is Tuesday. That was Saturday? Sunday? I don't even remember at this point. Last two days have been hectic. Got into some drama with another author. For the first time, not my fault. That's kind of weird being that predicament. So right after that, on Mother's Day, as you saw in the video, we were doing a cookout, we get done eating. And my mom says, what are your plans tonight? I was like, I don't know. I'm just going to go home and probably read and relax. She goes, well, I've had chest pains for an hour and a half. And I think I need to go to the emergency room. Y'all, I've never been so terrified in my life. So we're on the way up to... I'm laughing as Gallo's humor for me now. It wasn't funny at the time. It's still not really funny. It's more that I can't believe it. My mother told me, I didn't want to ruin your meal. Mind you, it's Mother's Day. Mother's Day. And this is my mother telling me she didn't want to ruin my meal because she was having chest pains. So, okay, we get up to the emergency room. They rush her back. They do all the tests. She's fine. They're thinking it was her blood pressure. They put her in observation overnight. They admitted her, put her in observation. In the morning, her blood pressure was nuts. So they kept her throughout the morning and the mid-afternoon and then finally released her that night. Then I come home to even more drama from Mr. Author Man. And if you follow me on Twitter, you can look at it. I'm done with it. I'm done with the drama. But it's the kind of shit that builds because this morning I am so on edge that I spilled a whole cup of coffee on a stack of books. I had set a stack of books beside my bed because I was entering them into Goodreads last night. And I got done and I just didn't put them back. So this morning I spilled coffee all over them. They stain sides, not the spines, but the side where you can see the paper, those are stained, brand new books too. You'll see them in the book haul when I eventually get it done. And then I go over to my mother's house to see how she's doing. I open up the freezer to get ice and I drop a bag of blueberries. The blueberries burst all over the place. Now I'm fully expecting to have a coronary while I'm out here walking. So anyways, I'm kidding. Of course, like I said, it's Gallo's humor. But the past two days have just been God fucking awful. 45 minutes later. Those first four laps, I did 12. Those first four laps are murder. But once you get over, at least once I get over those first four laps, it's not as bad. I guess everything starts to warm up. I don't know the science of it. I'm not a fitness expert. I'm just trying to be less fat. I mean, that's just it, right? I got kids to live for. Anyways, I got to thinking while I was walking about all the little piddly shit that happened this morning. The dropping the coffee, dropping the blueberries. And when I say I dropped the blueberries and they burst, I'm talking about the bag busted open and the blueberries went everywhere. But I got to thinking about these things and then I thought about mom and her mortality and my mortality and all that stuff and got to thinking real deep. I had to thinking about all this drama that happened this weekend and the little piddly shit that happened today. It just doesn't matter. I don't know why I let my headspace be occupied by stuff that doesn't matter. I don't know why any of us do it. Out here walking, I get to actually decompress and I get to actually think, it's tough. I mean, I'm sweating, I'm hot. My face is the same color as my bandana. It's hard work, but it's worth it.