I apologize. I did not follow through on my desire to make posting here a habit. Zoom. Over three weeks went by. Wow. Where did the time go?

In therapy, I have new personal bests in almost everything. I have walked 286 feet in seven minutes — that is over two thirds of a mile per hour for those tracking my blinding speed. Apparently, I am now over the threshold for indoor mobility. I need to double my speed to be rated for outdoor. I have climbed the stairs a bunch. Dang, that is hard! My PB for standing is now 18 minutes. Going to go for broke later this week and try to watch a full episode of Severance while standing. I am wearing my Dynasplint four or more hours a day (PB 5-½) Wearing my KAFO (knee ankle foot orthotic) right out of bed and most of the day. Doing my chiropractor exercises every day. They keep adding one exercise with each visit. We are going to have to start removing some soon.

Outside of therapy, I have been going nuts with this idea that I want to teach people to be happy. Even when life sucks. I spoke at the LEAD group. I am scheduled to speak to another group June 2. We are trying to schedule time with two more groups. I like it. My voice i not what it used to be. I’ve started making breathing notes in my sentences so I will have enough air to say them. I find myself tweaking my words a bit to make better spaces for pauses.

In addition to the speaking, I am still working on the book and also trying to get into coaching. Does anybody need a happiness coach? As part of all this, I have branded it under Embrace Joy (and formed an LLC) and started a bare web site with a podcast. At some point, I played with an AI system to do voice cloning and I cloned my old voice. You can give a listen to my fake old voice talking about gratitude. Right now this is a potential side gig, or if work fails my main gig. Could be good. Could be bad. Too soon to tell.

Saw my chiropractor (not a bone cracker, does a lot of release work) yesterday and that did wonders for my back. Last night I had fantastic sleep and kept my CPAP on all night. Nice. By happy coincidence, my chiropractor is colocated with my PCP, and he had disability paperwork to do. Plus he gave me a prescription for non-allergic rhinitis in an attempt to address my nose, which has been running clear, thin snot for two weeks, Fingers crossed.

Current plan is full focus on therapy, improving endurance, and working my “Ticket to Work” program with Social Security and Texas Workforce Commission. Working with TWC on a series of things: one-handed keyboard, standing frame, new vehicle. Those will enable a lot. We have a lead on a used standing frame we will be checking out tomorrow.

I have increased my workouts with Sam to twice a week. This week, Kathi is coming to learn some stretches and we think she will come by twice a week to help me with those.

We have attended every Austin FC home match. Have another tonight. Took the whole family out to Red Ash for dinner Monday and it was wonderful. I have a current obsession with sweets so sharing four desserts was fun. Plus, the aged New York strip was amazing and the gnocchi was to die for.