Balancing Work, Writing, and Family in Uncertain Times

Well life is extremely crazy right now, with the Gov’t being partially shut down that has left us in a bit of a bind, as my wife hasn’t been going to work and of course not getting paid. I still am collecting a paycheck so at least we have that so that makes it so things aren’t that bad at least for right now. I honestly expect that we will be 100% OK, other than my wife going stir crazy, which is what is happening to her. There are only so many times in a day you can go to the gym and so many times you can clean the house each week.

So next thing, still working on the writing thing, and I hope to get at least the first novella published by the beginning of November, most likely second week. Sooner if I can get some solid time to sit (stand, I use a standing desk) and write for enough time to get it done. I am also working on my art work, which I have to start getting some of that done, I have a piece that I need to finish, and then I have lots of empty canvases that need to be filled.

Something I have been doing for a long time is the whole fitness journey thing, I had an intention to compete in a bodybuilding show but I have since changed that decision, and I will be moving my training back to my first love, powerlifting, and I will be looking to do at least 1 meet at some point in 2026 once I can work on increasing my 1-Rep max numbers in the Bench, Squat and Deadlift, they pretty much suck right now but I stopped training for pure strength a long time ago and just need to move back that way and I started doing that last week and just a week and a half in my body already feels much better, so I expect it to only get better from here. I am still going to try and drop weight in the progress and get leaner, looking to go down to 83 KG weight class, with my BF levels at 10% or lower so that I am mostly all muscle. I know I won’t hit the numbers I could when I was training many years ago, since this time around I will be doing Masters category, and that is fine by me.

Well I think that is going to be it for now in terms of updates, but you never know I might have something more to say later and will post again.
Later, HT