There haven’t been any new entries posted here in a while, but I swear it’s not primarily because I’m being lazy or unmotivated. I’ve actually gotten inspired and started a multitude of entries on my phone or computer, but then I get distracted mid-entry and don’t go back to them. It’s challenging to find wherever I started writing, and more difficult still because I don’t have the patience to try to reread what I’ve already written, as the words disappear as my eyes move over them (having low vision sucks).

I’ve always had a hard time staying on-task except when being totally obsessed with what I’m doing, but it’s definitely gotten worse since my accident (which I’ll be referring to my stroke quadrilogy now, until I decide otherwise).

I think a chronicle of my day yesterday, as narrated by past me, illustrates this point to some degree:

Morning

My main goal was to do the laundry this morning, but I was having a hard time getting out of bed amidst the quiet. Eventually I managed to rouse myself and turned on the TV for background noise and went back to the bedroom to get the laundry, but saw that the donation box across from it was overfilled and spilling on the floor. Thus, I went to get a trash bag to empty some of the excess donatables into. Once in the kitchen, I saw out the window that it was cloudy outside and ideal lighting for taking review photos for my websites.

And so, I went to my stack of unreviewed action figures, grabbed one to photograph, and then started to head outside. The news caught my attention so I sat down to watch the TV for a bit. I got back up to take Figure photos, but had the epiphany I should shoot a 5-minute unboxing video first.

My office is a perpetual disaster zone, so I needed to remove a bunch of shipping boxes from the floor and table to make room. I plugged in the necessary lamp to the USB port on my computer to power it, and looking at my computer realized I should do one of my two daily eye training vision therapy sessions. After completing the session, I moved over to the unboxing table to record the video and discovered I’d need to mute the TV in the other room. I went to the other room, watched a few minutes of TV, and saw it was past time for lunch.

I set a pot of water on the burner and went back to record the unboxing in the now-accessible room with lamp lighting. I sat down and realized I never muted the TV. Back to the TV. Back to the video.

Unboxing completed, but needing the usual editing and minor polish. Wandering into the living room to begin the editing process, I hear the water boiling in the kitchen that I’d forgotten About and set some pasta cooking. I unmute the TV and sit down to wait for the pasta to cook.

Afternoon

Apathy noodles finish cooking, and I noticed it’s gotten sunny out and is no longer suitable for photos. I walk past the bedroom door, see the laundry basket, and decide I’d better take it down to the laundry room ASAP or else I never will. First load of laundry washing.

Walking back upstairs, I check the time on my 🍎 ⌚️ and note I’m well behind on my daily movement calories. I get my sneakers and prepare to go outside for laps in the neighborhood (I can’t drive anymore with my vision being what it is post-accident), but open the front door and see the elderly women who live across the street out walking. They habitually try to greet me or talk to me when I’m out at the same time as them, so I decide to avoid that by going out later instead.

Add sauce to pasta, set it microwaving for a minute and a half. At this point, I get a surprise alert from my phone some little vinyl figures sold on eBay, and realize I’ll have to blind-hunt for them and also a shipping box. Remember noodles in microwave. Eat noodles.

Still too sunny outside for photography, and laundry load 1 still washing.

Late Afternoon

Only a couple hours until my wife gets home from work, so I need to get in gear and get chores in the house done. Wash pots and pans from lunch and the night before. Go to put dishes away from the dishwasher and discover the latch on the detergent compartment stuck when last run and everything is still dirty. Begin rerunning dishwasher.

Notice giant trash bag of donatables on the bedroom floor I filled earlier. Take it out to my car so it may actually travel to the donation drop off and is out of the house. See there’s no old ladies out because it’s 90 degrees-ish now and decide to do that walk. Put on my shoes and realize I need to dry that first batch of laundry.

While going downstairs to set laundry drying, I almost stumble on a pile of boxes and remember I need to package that eBay sale. I spot an Amazon box that’s the right size, but it’s still full. I bring it back up, open and photograph it’s awesome Contents, which reminds me I still need to take review photos of that action figure from this morning. The lighting still works, so I do that, set the figure back inside and then go for my walk while my shoes are on.

I manage about 1.66 miles and 4500-ish steps before one of my nemesis old ladies appears and I flee back into the house. I’ll have to do the other half of today’s fitness requirements later to close my rings.

It’s too quiet in the house, as the TV turned off due to inactivity. I turn it back on, then package, measure and weigh the eBay item. I go back to my office to make the label and decide to do my other daily vision therapy session while I’m there.

Once that’s done, my wife’s work day is over, so I need to start making dinner while she comes home. Unload completed dishes in dishwasher. Make dinner.

I think I hear my wife coming up the hill, so I go down to hold the door for her. It’s not her—it’s some sales guy trying to sell us new windows. I try to tell him no, but he’s pushy and schedules an estimate for tomorrow. Future Dabid’s problem. Back to cooking. I’m on the clock here.

Evening

Have dinner, then walk remaining 40 minutes in swampy outside humidity to complete daily exercise with 11,0000+ steps and 700+ movement calories.

. Bring up mail from mailbox and rip up refinancing junk. At this point, I’m utterly exhausted.

Grind in Pokemon Brilliant Diamond for a bit; remember to do today’s Wordle while there’s still time remaining on it.

I go into storage and gather another half dozen items to take eBay photos for.

Night

Listen to about an hour of audiobook with my wife before she goes to bed. 21 hours of “The Way of Kings” down, 24 hours remaining.

Schedule USPS pickup for tomorrow for that eBay item I packaged earlier, since I can’t drive to the post office anymore.

Work through a few episodes of backlog of The Office and Simpsons Season 32 while mindlessly leveling Pokémon.

Continue reading The Complete Sherlock Holmes on my phone (it’s too hard to see text in a book now) as part of my studies of classic literature.

Set package outside the front door for USPS to pick up in the morning. Remember that I never made it downstairs to dry that first batch of laundry. Set that half drying and the other half washing. It’s after midnight now. I can finish the laundry tomorrow.