Life vX.x
The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older
Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death
Pink Floyd - "Time" - Dark Side of the Moon - 1973
On this site you will see references to Life version X.x.
Life v1.x
Life v1.x was my existence under and with The Flozberk Way, a period lasting from birth to age 51. This was life with my parents amid a direct connection to the Flozberks. That life was largely a tornado of strife, illness, violation, and dysfunction that left a lot of smoldering wreckage in its wake.
That phase of life wound down as John was exiled in 2008, Mom died in 2015, Dad was killed in 2019, and ended with the euthanization of Tasha on January 29, 2019.
Life v2.x
Life v2.x is the current intermediate period, a sort of purgatory with the hopefully-final issues being the fair distribution of Dad's assets according to his wishes and the setting straight of the record according to the truth.
It will transit to the next phase only when a fair resolution is achieved, therefore it's possible that it will never end.
This phase has been much better, by far the best part of my life. Everything is different, brighter, sweeter, happier. Even in the face of a grave health challenge, life is great. Health challenges are normal parts of life. Toxic, sleazy family freak shows are not.
This feels much like how freed wrongly-convicted prisoners describe their new lives. The worst day of Life v2.x has been better than the best day of v1.x, I'm sad to say. For the first time in my life, every single person I significantly deal with is rational, wise, effective, and ruled by good faith, a state of affairs that has degraded ONLY when having to deal with Neila (through her seemingly lackluster attorney.
Fancy that, eh?
Life v3.x
Life v3.x is the deeply-desired elevation to an existence no longer soiled by The Flozberk Way in any form other than fading trauma and immensely mixed memories. Whether and when it will come to pass is largely in Neila's hands.
Should she insist upon shafting me on my childhood home, I'm ready to engage the Flozzies for the rest of my life and am very well-positioned to do so with jaw-dropping gusto, height, depth, breadth, dedication, endurance, and creativity.
Life v3.x cannot come to pass without a fair and final resolution regarding Dad's house.