No better today. Well, maybe a bit, but highly localised pain has been replaced by "aching all over" which isn't really an improvement, so I think I'm going to call it an early night tonight. I was hoping to log in and play some Final Fantasy XIV this evening, but the queues certainly put paid to that possibility — I'll try again over the weekend, otherwise it'll likely be a Blue Reflection kind of weekend, I reckon!

I'm tired. This year has been tiring — perhaps even more so than last year. I feel like I was mostly coping with the whole "pandemic" thing just fine for most of last year, but the situation feels like it's stressing me out a lot more, particularly as we close in on the end of our second year in the midst of it. It's probably not worth worrying about — not as if I can do much about it myself, anyway — but as a naturally anxious sort of person, I can't help but worry somewhat. It's the way I'm built.

So I think what I'm going to do tonight is try and get some nice rest nice and early, wake up reasonably fresh tomorrow, have a pleasant, quiet day and try to relax a bit. From thereon we can take everything else as it comes, or something!

Hope you all have a good weekend.

Apologies for no post yesterday, I've been having some fairly excruciating pain from my hernia for the past couple of days so I pretty much went to bed straight after finishing work yesterday. I'm slightly better today but not quite "fixed" yet, but hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.

I'm annoyed with myself, I wanted to get some stuff done like a Let's Play for Clockwork Aquario for Rice, but I guess I can do that tomorrow. Trouble is, like most people I feel like I've been conditioned to feel intense guilt any time I'm not feeling my best either physically or mentally, and thus I end up getting myself into a bit of a tizz worrying about whether I've done "enough". I've totally done "enough", I've done about the same as I'd do on a "normal" day, but it's just hard to remember that sometimes.

On an unrelated, happier note, a big package containing five volumes of the Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki light novel arrived today. Unfortunately, Volume 2 wasn't among them — that one proved oddly hard to find, so I had to order it from the States, and as such I can't dive into them yet, but I'm looking forward to it. The first volume was an interesting read, and I'm intrigued to see how it develops over the long term. This is my first time immersing myself in a light novel series, so it's an enjoyable learning experience.

Sorry for the disjointed thoughts but as you can probably tell I'm not feeling my best right now. We're going to have some (very late) dinner and then I'm going to go to bed and play a bit of either Ridge Racer Type 4 or Lufia II. That sounds like a good idea, no?