back to work

First day back in the office. It was my Korean coworker's birthday, so I had a slice of birthday cake, thus throwing any attempt at getting back to keto out the window (in my defense, I started off well, having keto burgers for lunch using Joe Duff's bagel recipe; the bagels, when you make six of them, are the perfect size for my burger patties). I'll still do my 10K walk once I leave the office, though, so at least there's that.

Much of today was spent simply getting my head back in the game. I had left the office, in September, with a mountain of proofreading yet to do, so that's what I did all day today, and it's what I'll be doing for the next few days until I finally reach a point where I can generate new material for the next project. 

It's a fasting day tomorrow, though, so that ought to start making up for the excesses of today. It's a stairs day tomorrow, too, but I'm restarting slow and easy, doing only half a staircase tomorrow and Thursday, a full staircase on Saturday (or Sunday, depending on how big of a walk I do on Saturday), then I'll be back to 1.5 staircases next week. Same goes for resistance-band work—I'll be doing only half-sets this week, then going back to full sets next week. Meanwhile a fitness-nerd friend of mine in Qatar sent me a PDF for a Navy SEAL workout program, which I'll be looking into and adapting to my needs and abilities, but that's more of a next-year thing than a right-away thing. More on the SEAL program later; I've only barely begun to read the PDF, but it's already interesting as it promises a no-gym routine.

Anyway, it's good to be back in the office and earning money again, but more and more, I think I want to be my own boss, so I'll continue to work quietly and intensively on my writing projects, and we'll see how that goes. I had a brainstorm about a book a couple months ago, and I'm talking with some people about how to make this book happen. More on that later.