This is Dan.

I haven't talked to Chris in a couple of weeks, and so I tried to reach out to him. No answer to my phone calls or text, no answers to any messages I've sent him on any sort of social media or online service. I started to get worried.

I had forgotten about this blog. I know I was the one who told him to make it, but after a while, it just sort of slipped my mind. What reminded me of it was a story I saw on the news last night:

"Fifteen Acres of Local Nature Trail Burned to the Ground."

Looking over this blog again, I can see Chris was careful about not giving out any specific information about names of people or places, and I'm going to try to hold to that, but I feel I can say this: That was Chris' trail. That was the trail he walked to most, the one I've driven him to and from hundreds of times over the years.

That's what reminded me of the blog. So when I checked, and I found his last post, I kind of panicked. I went to his house, and then I broke in when he didn't answer. Inside, I found empty beer bottles, a empty gas can, a bunch of torn up rags, and his computer, still booted up and logged into this blog.

I don't know where he is. I don't know if he's okay or if he's hurt, or if god forbid he got caught in that fire. I submitted a missing person's report to the police station, but I don't know if that will help.

I don't even know why I'm writing this. Maybe some of you actually give a shit, I don't know. Hell, maybe he reached out to one of you and you know where he is.

I just hope he's okay. He hasn't been all there recently, so I really hope he didn't do what he seemed to think he had to do.