I took the Thursday prior to Christmas through New Year off. The Friday before my time off I developed sciatic nerve pain which went away after about four days, but that night I twisted in my sleep and had an “oh fuck” moment. Went from sciatic nerve pain to a torn muscle. I’m now on week two of back pain. I’m lucky to sleep for a couple hours at a time. It’s been a great week off. 

Christmas is not my holiday. Hasn’t been since I was a kid. The whole rejection of Christianity thing had a big hand in it. A couple years ago I started studying Judaism and that finished things off. I haven’t converted and I can’t say that I ever will, but Judaism fits the philosophy and theology I built over years of studying everything except Judaism. 

The only other thing I have going on is that I need to write an hour long training presentation covering coaching and mentoring, I need to have it complete prior to the end of the month.