Some updates on last week. I did end up breaking up with my girlfriend, in person. It did not go over so well with her, I received...five or six messages over the next couple of days. So that's unfortunate, but the way things go. I think with time some of these wounds will heal. But it does raise points of what I want/need in a relationship which, right now, I don't even want one. Almost every weekend is committed from now to mid-October, because I'm committing to myself. A good friend and I have started to scale more adventurous outdoor areas, continue to climb, run, etc. This is a year of personal development. Maybe next year will be, too. What I can say for certain is that this is an interesting life in the now, and that it's hard to argue against spending three hours on a summit at 7,500ft with some great friends doing things like this: