The title will tell you what I’m doing today.  For those who don’t know any Jews, Yom Kippur is one of the High Holy Days.  It is when we stop eating at sundown and don’t eat again until sundown the next day.  So, the holiday started last night and I can’t eat until sundown today.  Of course, I can if I start feeling sick since the goal isn’t to put myself in the hospital.  At least I have two days to try and recover because my guts have given me a little trouble afterwards.

This week was busier than I expected with appointments, meetings, and the weather dropping to a point where my sinuses were in agony.  Some unexpected encounters occurred to add to my stress as well.  All of them happened in late afternoon and evening too, so I couldn’t destress much before bed.  This led to several nights of restless sleep and then a morning where my body could barely move for a few minutes because it was just done with existence.  Still not 100%, but I always sleep in on Yom Kippur to delay thinking about food.

I have my son for the holiday, but I wasn’t going to try to edit anyway.  We’re seeing a movie this morning and then there’s a Pokemon Go event in the park.  Not the brightest thing to do when one is fasting, but the movie won’t take energy and the park is something I promised months ago.  Don’t want to break my promise, so I’ll be bringing a few protein bars and water in case I can’t go any further.  With any luck, I can make it through everything and get home to watch cartoons or let him play video games while I wait for dinner.

Since my son goes back to his mom’s tonight, I’ll be able to work on Darwin & the Demon Game for two days.  I only got a few pages in because things kept happening without warning.  Might try to finish chapter 5 tonight and then pull off 2 chapters per day on Sunday and Monday.  No big Pokemon events, so I won’t be going out much except for fresh air and exercise.  Friends recommended watching this Netflix documentary on Vince McMahon, which could work for background noise.  Used to watch WWE a lot in college and afterwards, so a lot of what’s going to be reported is stuff I kind of already knew even from slightly keeping up.

Almost done with the last of the Lego sets too.  That was only things I could really do in the 20-30 minutes I had between ending my day and sleeping.  It’s this 2-in-1 Deku Tree from ‘Legend of Zelda’.  It’s fun, but you can only build one of the two Deku Trees.  This means I have to choose one and will have a container filled with pieces that I can’t use.  Size is different than what I read too, so I can’t put all of the sections together.  Not a bad thing, but rather frustrating.  Think it’s a sign that I should go back to jigsaw puzzles for a while, especially since they’re slightly cheaper.  Think I have 16-18 of those left.

Can’t think of much else that happened and next week isn’t going to be that different.  A bunch of appointments with bad timing as well as work and parenting.  Keep being left exhausted by 8 PM and needing to crawl into bed by 9:30 PM in order to get enough sleep to recover.  So, this is what my life is these days.  With the mornings getting cold and dark, I might not be able to take a walk in the park before work.  So, I might be able to get a little editing in before the day starts.  Probably should take what I can get considering how bad this year has been with time management.

Nothing else to really talk about.  Wish I had more as usual, but I’m simply drained and ready to make it through a day of fasting.  My stomach has been hurting at times this week, so we’ll see what happens.  Seems to only happen if I eat really hot (temp-wise) food or get stressed out.  It’s a dull pain with a few sharp blips as if something is both stuck and randomly trying to push through my gut for a couple seconds.  Been happening on and off ever since my third bout with Covid in late April too.  Can’t wait to see which body system gets messed up when I catch it a fourth time.  Brain and lungs got weakened by the first round and the general endurance took a major hit after the second.  Why can’t a disease give me mutant powers instead of chronic issues?

So, goals of the week:

1. Make it through fasting.
2. Enjoy time with my son since I don’t get much until next weekend.
3. Editing as much as possible.
4. Work on December posts when possible.
5. Finish Lego set.
6. Watch McMahon documentary.
7. Sleep!
8. Pokemon Go and/or biking for exercise.
9. Really should do laundry too.