Pictures of the aftermath of trying to learn to roller skate in June, and all the metal I now have in my wrist as of October. I had fell backwards and tried to stop myself with my right hand. I thought it was just a sprain for over a month, took another month to get in for an xray, another month for insurance to approve a CT scan, and a couple months to get in for surgery. I snapped my scaphoid in half, and it started healing at a 70 degree angle so it had to be cut in half…

A lot has happened this past month. Not the first time in my life I have dealt with unrelenting garbage, but to top off an already fun month in my personal life, I blew the one last fuse I managed to keep going for my entire work life. Whenever I have job issues and I want to give up and quit, I jump to my worst fear being losing my job. That being in big part because if I don’t find a job right away, I will lose my home. I have always lived paycheck to paycheck. I then have…

There is a lot going on, and it would be so much easier if I simply stopped caring, like most everyone else in the world seems to have done, but that is not who I am. If something is shitty, even if just for me, I want to make it better. When it comes to my job, after a bad interaction with my boss in the midst of all my recent personal and medical issues, where I decided to retire early to van life in a couple years, I spiraled as I do, but also decided to speak up and…