...nearly hit:

the bottom of normality but was saved by a finely woven net of chains of exceptions...

In other news: summer is over.

In better news: please welcome my old longterm old friend Andi who finally founds his way to blip. He lured me into his darkroom when we were yound and handsome.
(I thought a moment about the phrasing and couldn't decide whether to declare me or him young and handsome. So I decided we both were.)