Feeling Down, So It ’s Time To Be Grateful

Sometimes life gets me down. So what am I going to do about it? I ’ve been way too sick to blog lately or post here. I mostly lay in bed and cough. It’s a party! But I did get somebook writing in. One more chapter, and I’ll be ready to post it on Kindle Vella. Now I just need to design a fetching avatar for the book.I started feeling better yesterday …marginally. I had energy enough to remotely log into my four computers and setup SSH key pairs, moved some doge into a dedicated hot wallet, listed items on eBay, updated my dynamic DNS account to make sure my web and ebook servers were working, downgraded Calibre and DeDRM to fix the Mac glitch with Kindle 1.31.0 where the DRM keys weren’t passed to the new install, then upgraded them so I can make DRM-free backups of my purchases again, ignored the crypto-markets because they weredepressing, worked on the impossible family jigsaw puzzle that will be the death of me before sickness ever takes me out, read a lot of books, and laid down inbetween each task to recouperate.What ’s funny is that what Iwant to do is vastly different from that list I just shared with you, but I simply can ’t exercise or do PT yet. I can’t write as long as I can tinker. I run out of stamina. Same problem with studying Japanese. Or blogging. I wonder why tinkering on my computers is easy, but working on them is hard?I believe the reason is that I forget to take breaks when I work, but tinkering is intellectual pudding, effortless fo...
Source: The Splintered Mind by Douglas Cootey - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Depression Goodreads Spinning Visualizing Source Type: blogs