Rest and recovery is also important! For real, not just me advocating laziness like I often do.

ND, you share a birthday with a good friend of mine -- I hope that you and she both feel well-celebrated today.

Thank you, my dear invisible friends, for giving me a place where I can just hang out when the outside world seems like it's doing its best to grind me into powder.

OK, I did one onerous task of setting up an eye appointment (....which I was supposed to have done because they wanted me to come back in January 2023). It's not until mid-June, but it's set up! Now to look up if the dermatologist I went to before is still on plan, so I can call and get a skin cancer check...probably in like October, but ah well. I also booked a trip to visit for my father's birthday.

(Edit: The dermatologist office let me make an appointment online! And it's for NEXT WEEK?! Wild)

Happy Birthday ND.

Also, fyi, it's Emancipation Day in DC

OK, mission partially accomplished! Just once around my block, and I live in a *very* small cul-de-sac, but I did it. My legs hurt a bit, but I'll try for another after work.

Thank you everyone. So far today is being a turd. Hopefully that will change.

OK, mission partially accomplished! Just once around my block, and I live in a *very* small cul-de-sac, but I did it.

Right on!

My legs hurt a bit, but I'll try for another after work.

Motivational-and-supportive!Tim would cheer you on and also remind you to take it very easy.

I've been thinking about jury duty and the juror selection for Trump's trial. I've almost talked myself into believing that I could be impartial. I'd probably never get picked for several reasons, and I think Trump is a shitbag of a human, but if I was presented evidence that he was innocent (which he obviously isn't), I'd hope I could admit that.

I don't know, it's kind of a thought exercise. I've served on a jury once for a criminal trial and it was pretty obvious that the guy did it, so maybe I'm underestimating how hard it is to make a judgment when it's not cut-and-dried.

Visited kids and parents last week. We had planned to for both daughters and respective SOs to gather with us and my parents Saturday, but younger daughter called up the day before we left to work out things with my wife and it did not go well. My daughters GF (I'll say DGF) and my wife are still on bad terms since thanksgiving and DGF accused my wife of being, well, mean to younger daughter and things just downhill from there. I was putting away laundry at the time and didn't overhear things. Anyhow, younger daughter basically isn't interacting her mother now. Fortunately, she was okay getting together with me for a walk and ice cream and we had some time to talk. I tried to defend my wife while not attacking DGF (who wasn't there). My wife feels like I didn't really support her by doing that, but also said I did the best I could.

DGF had a very difficult relationship with her own mother which makes everything even more volatile. Younger daughter is saying that learning about DGF's family has made her process her own upbringing. She says she's very thankful for the way she was brought up in many respects, but that where were issues especially with my wife. She also said that she saw that I was emotionally abused and I failed to role model self-advocacy which was bad for her own ability to self-advocate. (I omitted that from my report of the conversation to my wife as I'm worried that would really make things difficult).

Meanwhile, my wife is feeling unfairly attacked by DGF (with some good reason, I do feel like she's being excessive) and she also feels like younger daughter is also being unreasonable and pointing out some of her faults.

I'm curious about what my older daughter would make of all of this, but I don't want to draw her into this so I'm not going to bring it up with her. I feel really caught in the middle. I mean I feel like I should always be in my wife's corner, but I also feel like I should always be in my daughter's corner.

I've been thinking about jury duty and the juror selection for Trump's trial. I've almost talked myself into believing that I could be impartial.

I feel like I could be impartial. I really like to be accurate, sometimes to an annoying degree (may be related to being on the spectrum). I don't know that facts well enough now to know if I think a crime has been committed or not.