Day off. Quiet morning. No plans. Recliner. Coffee. Cat.

Last month’s Garmin stats took a hit thanks to weather and getting sick. I was about 20 miles short of my usual 100.

A big snowstorm kept me inside more than I like last week. Managed 3.1 miles yesterday and today.

Looking forward to getting back to those 7+ mile days.

Off from the full-time gig until Wednesday.

Planning to spend the next couple of days working on our apparel line we will be releasing soon.

Strength isn’t always pushing through. Sometimes it’s recognizing when a situation is quietly doing damage and deciding to move. I’m in that place right now. Not every hard thing is worth enduring. Some things don’t build you, they wear you down.

I don’t watch national news, and I stay away from news on social media. Still, it’s hard not to feel what’s happening in the country right now.

It pulls me back to 2020, during the riots and protests. My job then was to protect people and property. It was a daily fight, literally. I was stabbed twice and left with lasting scars, both physical and mental. That period left me with PTSD, and no matter how hard I work through it, it never fully goes away.

I don’t want to relive that, and I don’t want this country to either.

Be careful, America.

Spending the morning with coffee and a cat, getting this microblog up and running.

One last note before I start the day.

Comments and registration are disabled for now. I want to think through how I want to handle the security side of that first.

I think I’ve got the basics of the site setup handled.

Time to move on and start the day.

This is my public space. Some days it’s thoughts. Some days it’s photos. Nothing here is curated or finished. This is just me, unfiltered.