Daily Success: February 8 is ok, definitely better than the average over the last weeks, clearly making progress. Exercise in recent days has been inching up in total effort when strength training is included. The laser / shockwave / laser treatments for my shoulders seem to have done significant good. Knock on concrete. Two “My Camino Day” posts got done, both from 2018, August 4th, my first day, and August 5th, the second. The Camino was a brand-new experience, full of wonder in addition to all the joy. One can never tell what does how much good, but reliving those hours and experiences truly did improve my spirits. And with improving spirits came improving productivity. I finished the first draft of a proposal and offered a specific deal on it to the customer yesterday.

We’ll see how that works out.

On the “not so fast” side, I missed three consecutive “Daily Posts.” That is truly not good.

Some of my “Camino 2023” planning has been on hold pending an answer from an old friend on how serious he is about joining me for a few days. While I hope he does, his schedule and my preferred one are not in synch and that must be corrected soon if my planning is going to move forward in a timely fashion. Thus, a follow up email to him yesterday asking about his thinking.

On an extremely happy note, we leave for Florida and 10 days with family and friends in just three days. This will be more to lift my spirits. The flip side of that is that Camino “stuff” will be in the back seat and little is likely to get done during that period, especially website posts and strength exercises. All in all, it’s a good exchange at this point.