We’ve all had other stuff going on the last few days, so our word count was a bit lower in there. Tonight we re-engaged, with different pieces:

a. Andrea is working on a blog about her cancer experience over the last while, which will eventually show up on my blog here somewhere, probably a series of shorter posts in the end. But she added 3700 words tonight.

b. Jacob struggled a bit, which isn’t surprising, but he managed 170 words. He’s been tired the last few nights and had some challenges with his computer earlier this week. Funny story in there actually…we went to the local computer shop, thinking we might go for a full new gaming rig, but it would have been a desktop instead of a laptop to keep the cost down. So he would have lost his mobility factor when he goes to Peterborough or the cottage. Just to be “sure” about options, I took his laptop with us in case there were other config things we could do. Most of the time, they’re backed up in service, you have to leave equipment and they’ll call you, nothing unusual about that though. Instead, they were perfectly happy to open it up on the spot, not forcing me to wait in the bench queue, to see what internal upgrades were possible on the existing chassis. And while we had it open, we tripled his RAM from 8GB to 24GB and tripled his hard drive space from 500GB to 1.5T in total. Sweet. It didn’t end some challenges he was having getting a specific game to work, but it did boost his gaming options. All for — wait for it — just over $200. It’s all working now, he’s happy, but he’s had a long week overall. ANY words tonight were a victory.

c. I didn’t have the mental bandwidth to write about HR tonight, so I worked on a blog instead about my week and mental health. 1700 words, nothing too long, just talking about Jacob and friendships, and myself and friendships too.

Onward!