voicemail i sent mauro this morning at 4:55 am Seattle time:

"Hey, it's me.
It's 7:55 in the morning
- mmm -
I wanted to wake you up.
and bother you.
even though i know you're sick...
- mmm -
okay...call me...
no, DON'T call me.
- mmm -
i think you're stupid.
...
(hang up)

note: M spent a fourteen hour overnight drive from Red Rock Colorado to Portland Oregon in his bunk not sleeping, but catching the bus driver's flu virus.