Blog pause for Covid recovery & post stockpiling
I’m pausing PainSci posting until mid-October so that I can:
Finish recovering from Covid #3. 😠 Having Covid isn’t newsworthy anymore, but it can still really pack a punch. Indeed, it’s busily murdering a lot more people than flu (mostly the unvaccinated). My third case has been mild, but I am exhausted.
Finish a master plan to build a stockpile of fully prepared posts, with big benefits for content quality, consistency, and my sanity. I’d like to feel prepared, organized, and un-hurried for the first time in three years! But, ironically, I’ll have to rush even more to achieve this. For a month, I’ve been writing twice as many posts as I’ve published, and I’m getting close … but I need a break from publishing to get it done without breaking something. (Especially given the Covid!)
So, thanks for your patience while I take a breather. I know it’ll be tough, since there’s nothing else to read, learn, or be amused by out there. 😜
Speaking of other things to read, I’ll leave you with this painful quote I just found in Hugh Howey’s “Silo” novels. I’ve been listening to the audiobooks, and also watching the show, starring Jessica Ferguson. This passage about muscle and pain jumped out at me:
She sat down and rubbed her legs, her thighs and calves tight from the most recent hike up. She may have been gaining her porter legs these last weeks but they were still sore all the time, the ache in them a constant new sensation. Squeezing the muscles transformed that ache into pain, which she somehow preferred. The sharp and definable sensations were better than the dull and nameless kind. She liked feelings she could understand.