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I have seriously considered not doing a challenge at all, but decided to keep my ongoing chain of at least having some sort of presence on here. (This sentence does not make sense to me either.) The whining part is here: Things are really not going well at work. Like really not well. We have not had a single order in more than a week, and nothing to look forward to. My father was his usual unpleasant self today, so bad that I thought about suicide again. I took the dogs for a walk on Saturday, Vonk got caught in a snare, when I tried to help him he bit my hand. Two small holes and a lot of blood. It is much better now, but I could not do anything the entire weekend. Vonk is OK. I had to go to the doctor, and I had to pay him, so: An outing I was sort of planning for this weekend is not going to happen. It would have been my first time alone since February. And to make things worse this morning my hip started going funny on me, so bad that by late afternoon I had to hold onto the table to turn around. I need to focus on the small things: 1. Computer of at 21:30, bed at 22:00. I have done this before, I have gone into the habit of going to bed late, it is now 23:26 2. Keep an eye on what I eat. My weight is going up. Do not buy crap, and stop eating when I am not hungry. 3. Some sort of exercise daily. This is the difficult part. Walking with the dogs do not count, I need to do something that is work.

Jakkals vat dit dag vir dag. This coming month is going to be hectic. We have got a deadline at work with an order that needs to be delivered before the 25th of July. We are also expecting visitors around then, and I have to make and finish my competition knife before 1 August. So, keeping this challenge small, one of the most difficult ones I've ever done: No time wasting on the internet before 20:00 in the evenings. If I do that, hopefully the important things will get done.

I had a bad last challenge, and my brain is not really cooperating. I wanted to do all sorts of things, but I know myself well enough and are aware that while I am in this condition I am lucky if I just cope with life. So for this challenge I will only do one big thing at a time. And I will start tomorrow with an Input Deprivation Week. For one week: No reading books. No reading blogs. No reading newspapers. No going on Facebook (even just to post). No watching TV (shows, sports, news, anything). No watching movies. No listening to talk radio. No going on Reddit. No going on Twitter. No information input – only output! My evenings has become consumed with Youtube, Quora and Facebook. I have done it before and I have wanted to do it for a while now. I will however allow myself to read in the mornings and at night in bed. I am not sure kicking off a challenge by telling people I would not be around is a good thing, but I will see you next week.