================================================================== Happy fathers day! Mark rolled over in bed. Up until that moment he had been enjoyi...g a blissful morning, wrapped in the soft duvet. Last night his wife Alex and his daughter Meggie had taken him out for a pre-fathers day dinner. He had enjoy quite a bit of wine and the three of them had been up late into the night. He was surprised to hear them up, he thought they should have been as physically exhausted as he was after the. The question was, obviously, ‘why?’.‘Why?’ was, as I thought about it, because I was addicted to those kinds of relationships. I had shown I COULD break the addiction, and I’d even effectively used celibacy with Jennifer back when we were teenagers, as well as with my wives for the month before our marriage. In those cases, I’d had a clear goal in mind, and once I’d committed to it, I’d stuck with it. There was no reason I couldn’t do it again. Well, except for temptation, to which I knew I was. . being right all the time is no fun and the ONE time she decided to play with the facts ... sheer boredom, you understand ... the Powers that Be spanked her ass pretty good.Plus ... she couldn't take her babies with her ... they died. Out living your kids and their kids and their kids is a definite bitch! Everyone but you gets old ... and that gets old.Wendy was over it by the time the second Narmor combined the upper kingdom with the lower kingdom and changed his title.Pharaoh?What the fuck. .. I built it from parts I got from the Log Cabin catalogue. But the style copies one of Samuel Hawken’s original 1815 guns ... a Rocky Mountain Rifle. Five cans of Swiss ff rifle powder, one can of Swiss ffff priming powder that should last until I can trade for more. Three steel ‘hawks that I cut out of a 48” sawmill blade and then forged; two “Green River” butcher knives, three straight razor patch knives, a Spanish fighting knife and scabbard. My hunting bag, belt, leggins, breechclout,.