Check. Check. Testing, 1, 2, 3.

 It's been twelve years, but here I am writing again. It's felt like something I should do for a while. and for a variety of reasons, I feel motivated enough to do it today. I was 34 when I started this blog. I'm 51 now. If you had asked 34 year old me to predict what life would be like for 51 year old me, I am confident I would have been correct about these four things: 

1. I love my kids. 
2. I like to ski. 
3. I like to ride bikes. 
4. I do not like eating raisins. 

Beyond that, I would have been unlikely to correctly predict most things about my life. Here are a few notable or noteworthy items I probably would not have predicted even 12 years ago, in no particular order: 

1. I live in Montana. 
2. I won two national championships in weightlifting. 
3. I am divorced. 
4. I am self-employed building and remodeling houses. 

One of my variety of reasons for writing again is that I recently returned from a three week trip to Africa. I'd like to write about that and post some of the photos I took. So we'll start there. At some point. Relatively soon. Probably.