Aaron's Status

10:35 am

Pain

It’s normal for physical discomfort to crowd out other, broader thoughts. It’s challenging to dream about the future when your present is dominated by chronic pain. I’m improving, to be sure, and the time scale we’re talking about here is on the order of weeks to months, not years, but it’s not any less real in my head.

What makes it more of an acute challenge is how dramatically I’ve personally leaned into physical activities as hobbies or outlets, and having that suddenly vanish from my day-to-day has been a real adjustment. This is the third week since the “big flare-up” that really floored me, and I’m only just starting to feel oriented in this.

I’ve been able to do some bike rides, but I haven’t been climbing, and I was just about to make a dive into longer/harder hikes and all of that is suddenly and entirely on hold. The suddenness and completeness of the change is jarring.

Physical therapy continues to help and I know it’s a long journey but day by day there are small improvements and that’s all I can hope for or count on.

Zettels and stuff

I’m still using Logseq often, but probably not often enough. I’m embarking on a new project, which I’ll announce when I’m ready to, but it requires some light research and pulling together a rolling corpus of topics and content, which is basically what Logseq was conceived for.

This has re-ignited my interest in stuff like the zettelkasten method, “second brain,” and things like that. I occasionally fall down the rabbit hole of collating notes and suddenly it feels like a productive interest again.

All of this is also the reason I’ve started updating this space again. More to come!