I've noticed that I'm spending more time on social media as of late. I know this because I have a routine where every-so-often I'll go through my Mastodon accounts and revoke any open sessions. I do this so I'll have to consciously log in the next time. I've noticed several …

Decided to take some time out to think about what I was going to focus on this week. It's a chemo week so deep work isn't really possible. I figured I'd revisit an old friend, Assembly Language on the Atari 400/800 home computers. I had been learning about the …

Checking in: last week my intention was to narrow my focus on what is driving me and give that some space to play around. I made some progress in this arena. Part of that was finding out that my disability insurance was approved (hurray!). I wasn't going to worry about …

This weekend has been surreal. I didn't expect to have my application for disability approved so soon. It feels like a lot of the pieces are falling into place, which is a bit disconcerting. I was expecting a little more pushback from the universe (and maybe it will come; who …

So, um,

As of April 14th my application for Social Security Disability Insurance has been approved.

I'm literally gobsmacked. I didn't expect to see any movement about this for months, let alone weeks.

I was fully expecting to have to fight tooth-and-nail for this. So many folks I've talked to …