John J. "Joe" Dellea IV was a Boston expatriate who lived in colorado from the late '80s until he passed in late 2018. Under his own name he had published a few articles in some early e-zines and sold numerous "Forum" entries under pseudonyms for Penthouse and Playboy. HIs position as an IT guy with a local company dissolved in the tech recession that hit in the aftermath of 9/11. In the ensuing years he worked as a security guard at an air traffic control tower, a researcher for a robotics company, and as an expedited freight truck driver serving the mining and manufacturing industry in the west before he became disabled due to a heart condition and COPD. Joe had a good soul, a deep love of the west and Colorado, an affinity for motorized vehicles of all kinds, a bit of a temper when things went sideways, a wry if not twisted sense of humor, an indissoluble love of books, and an incredible amount of mostly useless knowledge that would have made him invincible at Trivia Pursuit of any incarnation, if he had deigned to attend any party where such a game might be played. Joe passed away from the flu and complications of COPD sometime late December 24th or early December 25th of 2018. This memoir published here for the first time is the only complete literary work found in his files so far.
