Dateline 3-5-2017

Yesterday ended up being a pretty good recovery day and now I feel like I'm back on my game. I started the day, still feeling a little out of it with twinges of pain from what I think is my first case of food poisoning. I may have had food poisoning in the past but I always thought of it as a BS self-diagnosed illness one uses to get out of work. In this case, however, four out of the four people I shared dinner with all ended up with the same stomach symptoms.

I did absolutely nothing but sleep Friday away so I woke Saturday feeling groggy and a bit disoriented. At first, I thought I was going to be sick for another day but then as more energy came to me I realized that I was just suffering from a sleep hangover.

I started out the day getting caught up with my blogging duties since I only had one backlog review as my safety net. This really highlighted to me just how weak my safety net is. Though in general, it's extremely rare for me to get more than one day behind, especially during this shut-in stage of my life, it would be super nice to have an entire week of reviews to fall back on.

I just learned the other day that I may have landed another steady income. It's a work from home job, just like my last one so I trust that it would be enough to help me get by, but I also have experience with these internet jobs, so I don't really trust that I actually have the job until I start my first day of working. Even then, I'm a little wary until I get my first paycheck.

Between the fact that I have a somewhat solid lead and several other applications out there being reviewed, I feel somewhat safe lightening up on my job hunt, which at this point is more of a mental distraction that keeps me from fully focusing the matter at hand while not being that much of a time killer.

This lead for work said that I should be starting in two weeks, so I am going to take from now, until the 19th, to mainly working on building a huge-mongous backlog. I'd like a safety net that's wide enough that when I do end up using it there's still enough net left to allow me to casually get caught up again rather than to then be stuck doing double duty for days until I can finally get back to where I'm feeling safe again, which is more for mental calmness than avoiding a heavy workload.

Hopefully, by the end of this month, I'll have a steady income as well as a steady schedule to work around. As always, I'll keep you posted on how this turns out and also as always, I'm now off to work on my next task.

Talk to you tomorrow.

Sincerely,

The Wicker Breaker