Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Nine, Dateline 7-18-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-nine of Operation Achieve Anything. Just my luck, my back finally starts to feel better to the point where I’m no longer bedridden and guess what happened next? I woke up this morning feeling sick to my stomach that all that I wanted to do was throw up so I could go back to bed. Though I got the throwing up done, by the time I got back to my room, I decided to get the day job over with instead.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Eight, Dateline 7-17-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. The upswing in life continues as I received my new office chair yesterday afternoon and am happy to share that not only does it sit taller like the chair that I had to return but it’s also nicely padded so that it doesn’t irritate my sciatica like said replaced chair that just turned out to be too firm. That combined with my new fancy/magical fan that blasts me with air from across the room, keeping me nice and cool, I no longer fear what was lining up to be a miserable summer.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Seven, Dateline 7-16-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-seven of Operation Achieve Anything. I am both excited and fearful about today but mainly can't wait to finish things up to go easy. I'm excited by the fact that I've finally been able to sit at my computer again after being bedridden for over a week due to my latest bout with sciatica. That said, I'm still waiting on my new office chair and am feeling some of the pain return that comes from the seat being so low to the ground causing me to have to sit in almost a squatting position and triggers the pain that runs down my left leg.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Six, Dateline 7-15-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-six of Operation Achieve Anything. It's Sunday and once again I am hungover as I think I've fully evolved into a weekend warrior since starting this day job. I don't know if it's the fact that I now have a steady stream of income or if I feel the need to drink to drown out my thoughts of this stupid job and enjoy my time away from it.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Five, Dateline 7-14-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-five of Operation Achieve Anything. Thank god it's Saturday because my day job is about to make me lose my fucking mind. I know, that's what day jobs are supposed to do when you're a creative person, but right now, I almost feel like I'm in the middle of a social experiment doing nothing of value to the world but test how far an anonymous employee can push a cog in their virtual machine.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Four, Dateline 7-13-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-four of Operation Achieve Anything. I'm continuing to love this new split/graveyard schedule especially as I continue to tweak how I plan out my day and grow used to sleeping in until closer to noon once again. Right now, I'm almost at a point where I could potentially finish my evening early enough to still get out of bed in the early AM to give myself a longer day.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Three, Dateline 7-12-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-three of Operation Achieve Anything. Yesterday/earlier today, considering it's currently just a little after midnight, was another successful effort into transitioning into a graveyard split schedule where I plan to do all my blogging in the early AM to then do my day job when there is sun.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-Two, Dateline 7-11-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-two of Operation Achieve Anything. Yesterday, I tried my plan to blog on a graveyard schedule once again and I have to say that it worked like a charm, to the point where I may just try to stick to this schedule even after I'm no longer bedridden with sciatica. It turns out, I really miss writing at night while the rest of the world sleeps, plus it breaks up my blogging and day job work so that there's no way for them to blend to make blogging feel like a chore as I rush to finish things up in order to meet the needs of my paid work.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety-One, Dateline 7-10-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety-one of Operation Achieve Anything. Though yesterday turned out to be a complete disaster, following a very successful weekend, I think I'm on the right track to finally figure the sciatica schedule out. For those of you not playing along at home, my sciatica started to act up a couple of weeks ago, and now I'm to the point where I can not sit in my chair for more than a couple of minutes before my entire left leg feels like it's on fire.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Ninety, Dateline 7-9-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-ninety of Operation Achieve Anything. Yesterday's experiment in taking a day off was a complete success as far as yesterday goes but now I'm stuck with the consequences of only committing to half of the entire plan. Where I was successful in avoiding work, up to, and including personal projects, I failed to start today's workload at midnight which was the second half of the plan.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Nine, Dateline 7-8-2018

Good morning Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-nine of Operation Achieve Anything. Today, I'm trying something new in order to take a legitimate day off and not just have one where I'm going easy. Most of the time when I take a day off that means, it's the weekend and I don't have the day job, and maybe I have a backup SNL review already in the chamber and ready to post, but there's still the work involved in publishing and sharing the work, and that still leaves this Daily Breaker segment to tend to.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Eight, Dateline 7-7-2018

Good evening Crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-eight of Operation Achieve Anything. As you may notice, I'm getting another pretty late start to my day only this time it's truly intentional. If you've been following my progress, I've spent the past two or three days bedridden, having to type on my laptop while lying on my belly. It may not be the best way to write but at least I'm still able to get all of my work done.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Seven, Dateline 7-6-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-seven of Operation Achieve Anything. Today is the first day in a really long time, probably the first time since starting my SNL challenge, where I wish I had it in me to just say, "fuck it" and take the entire day off from everything. I mean, yesterday, it took over twelve hours to complete who I usually finish in six or seven.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Six, Dateline 7-5-2018

Good afternoon crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-six of Operation Achieve Anything. Here we are with another late start due to my ever-changing back issue. Where it was just Sunday night that I thought it was damn near over, things really fell to shit over the past couple of days.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Five, Dateline 7-4-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-five of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s the fourth of July, and I am very excited to take the entire day off. Well, at least from my day job. I still have a few things to do for this blog, but as soon as I’m done, I’m going to be bedridden for the rest of the day. Though I do have the option to work and earn a few bucks, the fact that it took me about six hours to complete a six-hour day, from having to take many breaks to cope with my back pain, has me feeling like a break is justified.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Four, Dateline 7-3-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-four of Operation Achieve Anything. Today has started out to be a terrible day because I’ve been awake for two hours now and have barely gotten anything done. I’d be fine if there were a good excuse why things aren’t getting done. Hell, I’d even be happy if my late start was purely due to procrastination, but today is going super slow because my back pain has devolved to where I cannot sit for more than a couple of minutes before the pain is unbearable.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Three, Dateline 7-2-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-three of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s Monday, and everything’s back to normal following another weekend warrior drinking binge that had me sick as a dog and struggling to create my pages over the past couple of days. Though the hangover is gone, my back is still being very annoying especially now that most of the pain is gone except for one sweet spot that makes it impossible to find a comfortable way to sit in my new office seat.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-Two, Dateline 7-1-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-two of Operation Achieve Anything. It’s Sunday, and I’m back to my regular routine following another lost Saturday. Though I still drink about two or three times a month, it’s been a while since my last blackout especially while it was still early. Typically, when I day drink, I pace myself to keep a steady buzz for an extended period as opposed to power drinking like I do when it’s the end of my day, and I just want to sleep.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty-One, Dateline 6-30-2018

Good evening crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty-one of Operation Achieve Anything. I can’t believe it’s already so late in the day. It’s a Saturday, and last night I bought a box of wine to celebrate the weekend only to drink myself to sleep super early and then drink myself back to sleep when I woke early in the AM. When I awoke for the third time, I could hardly believe it was so late in the PM that I felt like I was being pranked.

Operation Achieve Anything: Day One-Hundred-Eighty, Dateline 6-29-2018

Good morning crickets. Welcome to day number one-hundred-eighty of Operation Achieve Anything. My back pain is continuing to evolve as each corrective measure seems to fix one issue only to cause a new issue to arise. It all started with a bulk of the pain relief stemming from switching from marijuana vape pens back to smoking the actual flower. I think this is because I usually buy the cheap vape juice that helps me sleep but never did all that much for any pain.