I turned off charges for a bit

I've been sick this week and trying to focus on my new job...

I caught another virus over the past couple days, my third in the past year. That doesn’t come as much of a surprise since I’ve been visiting my mom in the nursing home so much. That forced me to cancel my meeting at the Unique Peerspectives neurodivergent support group, as well as staying home from bar trivia today, which pretty much ensured my team will not likely win the Winter Tournament and qualify to compete for $2,500 at the Marriott Syracuse Downtown. I might not have even been the best player on the team, but I was certainly contributing.

Since I just got hired for almost twice as much as I’ve ever made before, I’m trying to focus on that, and I’m kind of lacking the passion to write right now, so I shut off charges until March 10. I’m sure I probably will release some columns over that time when I’m not sick anymore, but I am struggling to push myself to complete my work assignment, even though it is only part-time work, so I know I need to focus my energies on that. I just didn’t want any of my paid subscribers to cancel.

The guy from Onondaga County Community Development finally came yesterday, and he’s going to try to raise funding and get a bidder to install a ramp and repair my roof so Mom might be able to come home. She was actually mad I didn’t come and visit her today, even though I thought I was too sick to and I really did not want to infect everyone around the nursing home. Mom did get moved to another room away from the roommate she hated, but her current roommate is in the hospital, and she’s been very lonely, so I get it. I’m very lonely too. But I know I shouldn’t have risked infecting her or anyone else, also. If OCCD raises money for this, the work is free if we maintain the house for five years, meaning if Mom dies in the intervening period, the repairs will be charged against the estate. I might not have done it if the repairs would be charged against me, but I’m already going to be losing the house to Medicaid anyway, and to be honest, I never really wanted to own a house in the first place and moving back to an apartment would be relieving me from a lot of burdens I never wanted. I just need to get my credit back up enough so someone will rent to me by the time that happens, and that may be a challenge since I still have several credit cards in default (but hopefully by the end of the month, I will have payment arrangements for all of them).

Glad to see Kyle Busch on the pole for the Daytona 500. I kind of want to see him win since he is either the best or second-best NASCAR Cup Series driver who never won it (depending on whether you rate Busch or Tony Stewart higher), but I don’t think it will happen.