Flu in full effect, chores done, kids of school, porridge in my belly, power downs and -7 ahead.

Good morning folks.

It’s 10:14 and I’ve got a bit of a sweat on.

I’ve been up and doing my chores, toilet and pots swap out, made breakfast for @dayleeo and myself (eggs and myself porridge) and I’m trying to gear up for today and this week, I’m super slow however as I’ve got a bit of flu which I’m fighting through (think I got it from the kids play) but getting there, I think today is the worst of it which in some ways is good as my internal temperature control is fubar but bad because after 4pm today it’s supposed to be -6 here. ouch.

Had a few messages from daughter this morning that she has no school that it’s closed because of the snow, I’m expecting that to be closed tomorrow as well because it’s gonna be brutally cold in the morning and I’m sure they don’t want kids standing outside in -7, I don’t know I’m sure I’ll be kept in the loop about it regardless.

So yeah, I’m on the struggle bus a little today. Flu is such a weird one it kinda compresses my brain into a muddy mush and I can feel myself go through temperature changes over and over, hard to focus on things for long, I could record videos but I know I’ll sound terrible in them so it’s best to switch up to an admin style day instead.

I’m more in life logistics mode today, if we are gonna be having super cold drops after 4pm today and it’s gonna be -6 all evening and all morning we need to make sure that the van is locked down, extra padding on the ceiling and windows ideally and I need to order some more reflective padding for the windows, that stuff really does work well actually - I got a heavy duty stapler recently so that’s gonna be useful putting them up where needed.

Can’t believe I actually got back yesterday in the smart from dropping Ella back, I think if I had gone any later I would have gotten stuck out there as the smart doesn’t have the most grip or power at the best of times, I literally had to nurse her home around lunchtime and it took me well over forty five minutes to get back from a relatively normal quick trip — England really has no clue how to deal with snow, we just have never been able to handle it, you really see the infrastructure creek when things like this happen.

So many things i wanna get into right now from crypto pricing to the state of the planet and how things seem to be cascading towards back to the future part two biff tanner times but I simple can’t engage on it. Maybe it’s just that like everyone else trying to get my own shit sorted, possibly don’t want the drama of it, maybe I’m just projecting, maybe just taking stock of my own shit is enough right now and that dialog will open up in time, guess that’s my issue, like we all have, never enough time to do everything.

I think once you resign yourself to the fact that we don’t have enough time to do everything. Not long enough to spend time with a loved one, our children for all of their lives, to the job we have and the people we know, once you resign yourself to the fact that we have today, this moment and that’s what we should to the most then everything else just becomes gravy — just make sure that gravy is thick ok, pour that extra on everything.

Ok, I’m gonna try and recharge my eyeballs and go into a two hour sprint before we head do the shops to get supplies, the life of a remote worker has additional life logistics to do today, should have some nice surprises in the post thou today so that’s good, balance man. chasing balance! :)