October 2021 Journal

October 4th, 2021

I didn’t manage to get anything done on the list. I was at least productive today due to pragmatic procrastination. But I finished the T-Shirt for Hack. It should be up on his merch store in a little bit. And I completed the wedding speech for the wedding I am officiating. It’s actually a renewal of vows, because the wedding was scheduled for what turned out to be the middle of the pandemic.

October 7th, 2021

Bipolar Status

I Slept in again. I have adjusted my medication schedule. and am now taking both caffeine, and pain meds when my first alarm goes off. I am doing this instead of just taking caffeine, in the hopes that starting with pain meds will make rising and shining easier. 

Pain Status

I Didn’t have as much pain upon waking today. So the above medication switch may have helped. I am still planning to take more pain meds at lunch. I am having a hard time telling fatigue from pain these days. The challenges of fibromyalgia and bipolar depressive disorder.

October 10th, 2021

This is Canadian Thanksgiving, and we were too late in ordering our Turkey to obtain a Turducken as we intended. We’ve never had this supposedly tasty abomination, and were looking forward to it. Next year perhaps. We had a pair of vaccinated friends with no available family over for thanksgiving dinner. One of said friends was Hack, of the the Twitch stream: The New Hack ‘n Slash. I haven’t shown him the shirt design yet. I ordered test copies and will show them to him as a surprise when they arrive.

October 12th, 2021

The hardest thing in the last few days of Bipolar low cycles was updating the productivity journal.  I got stuff done across the last four days, mostly chores. I was more productive than I kept thinking I was being.  But I had trouble updating my productivity journal. As such, I am unsure how much I did achieve. I set up a Spreadsheet to review my Journal and quantify my productivity, my pain cycles, and my bipolar cycles. I must be back on a high cycle or I would never have considered doing this.

It’s easy to spot low cycles. A low cycle feels like trying to peddle a bicycle uphill with flat tires. A high cycle is often only obvious when it goes away and things suddenly cease to flow effortlessly.

I posted the following entry today.

• https://professorharbinger.com/2021/10/12/faqs-about-ohto-county/ 

October 13th, 2021

It is 8:26am and the fatigue is starting to hit. I’ve already had more than 300mg of caffeine. This doesn’t bode well.

My copy of the Solo RPG Journey, by Luke Miller arrived yesterday. I plan to read this to learn more about how others have crafted solo RPGs. The idea is to craft the BRD books into three sections: Solo RPG, Incursions and Excursions, and Resources. Obviously I want to draw from the old Sorcery Steve Jackson books when I do this. But I don’t just want to make a Choose Your Own Adventure book for the first section.  I may even use this idea to craft the Liturgical Yearbook, “A Year of Adventure”… I’m going to think about this. 

October 14th, 2021

I finished ‘Against the Grain,’ by James C. Scott today. This book is going into my core educational canon for the Song of Seven. The book ranks with the best I’ve read in explaining the underlying ideas.

October 15th, 2021

It is raining, which might account for my pain fatigue. My wife says that the weather report is expecting more rain today than any other day this year. So, yay. 

Looking at the productivity spreadsheet, I am expecting a dip in my high cycle today. As I previously seemed to have three productive days, followed by a dip, on my high cycle. 

I posted the following entry today.

• https://professorharbinger.com/2021/10/15/thorstein-veblen/

October 17, 2021

I posted the following entry today.

• https://professorharbinger.com/2021/10/17/october-blog-2021/

October 18, 2021

Feeling Good. Genuinely Good. A little tired, so I took an energy drink. I am feeling good on the pain front as well. I took pain meds anyway.

It’s time for a Journal entry on the website blog (Hello! *waves to the audience*). I need to develop a better system for my journal system.