Booked it down to SD to assist the parents with their car woes. Now I sit in the kitchen, typing up a blog before bedtime. I skipped out on work entirely today. Not good for income, but I need to schedule in some off-days, somehow.

I have been waking up at around 4 AM for the last week or so. Not voluntarily...something wakes me up, either an alien out to eat my brain, or maybe just my troubled mind finding something else to fret about. Hoping for a good night's sleep tonight. I'm worrying a lot about taxes...the self-employed receive quite a drubbing; thanks, Uncle Sam. I'm worried about income; Demand recently implemented a whole host of changes. My regular tech articles are kaput, and now I'm getting inundated with other...stuff...it's longer, wordier, it's clearly by troubled writers. Pretty sure it's going to reflect poorly on my scores and on my reviews, which are notoriously unforgiving.

Maybe I should start looking at moving back in with the folks. It'll probably come to that eventually, anyway.

I don't know if it's hormones or just January gloom, but it's been a dark week. Hoping for a happier February.

Off to find some uplifting music.