Balancing Work and Life Amid Uncertainty

October 29, 2025 | by D.D. White

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So here we are now on day 29 of the government shutdown. Officially we miss the wife’s first full paycheck, she got a partial one two weeks ago. So as of this week we are now just running off of my paycheck alone. On a good note I should be seeing a pay increase in my check due to a promotion at the full time gig. Though I do not know when that is going to happen, but it should be sooner than later I hope.

Apparently according to the betting markets this thing could go till at least the middle of November which isn’t a good thing at all. It honestly makes my job harder, at least harder to look busy while I am sitting here, hence the reason why I am posting this to my blog, got nothing to do. But hey I will take the boredom while I can because shit is going to go freakin’ nuts when everything opens back up when it gets back to full swing.

Even with the time on my hands I have yet to get any real writing done because I have had just enough fires to put out here that I couldn’t do it here. And once I get home I am pretty much fried for the day. The same goes with my art, haven’t painted in months but seriously need to get down to it and will be working that into my after work time in the next week. Also have to start doing some sketching on the regular as well to work on getting my drawing skills back up.

The one good thing I have going for me is my fitness related stuff, training is regular and I am getting it done everyday. I am lifting 4 days a week and cardio and then just cardio on the off days. It makes a huge difference so far at my current age. I need the additional recovery time that it allows me to have so that is good for me.

Well this will be it for now, just a quick post with some updates.
Later,
H.T.

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