I need to take a break for a while. The past several weeks to few months have had a plethora of stressful events in my life. These events range from home life, work life, and social Internet life. Some such events are good and others extremely bad. I have hit my breaking point and decided that I need to take a breather for a while from the Internet.

My home life has been rife with good and bad things. Last year, I bought a house! As of late, I finally had a gas fireplace installed, but the problem was I trusted my dad to call his plumber and electrician to get it prepared, but it took him half a year to do that! I wanted it to be done BEFORE winter! To this day I’m still angry at him for that. As of late, I have also been preparing the living room for a remodel, including painting the walls and getting carpet installed as well as furniture. All sounds good, but it’s a hefty price on my bank account.

Work came with a series of problems too. I have been without a jumper (a driver who fills in on other driver’s days off) for nearly eight months now. I have been working overtime for eight months and it has been taking a physical and mental toll on me. To make matters worse, our company has been hit with a cyber-attack, thus we had to make deliveries the hard old-fashioned way with paper. My days have been longer due to that and most of my customers have been yelling at me. I’m almost ready to snap!

Another thing I want to point out is that I have been taking Krav Maga for almost two years. Not bad, even got my Yellow Belt, but the second level involves a lot of sparring and boxing, which I have quickly learned I suck BADLY at! After almost a year of boxing, I believe I still haven’t got any better. Just recently, we started having a special seminar called Escape and Evasion. One part of the seminar involve gun disarms. It’s a high-level advanced technique and I did very poor on it. Boxing and gun disarming combined makes me feel like a failure, despite my instructor saying I’m doing well, but I don’t believe him.

My pickup truck is having issues as well. Last week, my driver’s side suicide door got jammed for some reason. I made an appointment at an auto-body shop to get it repaired, but they said they needed to hold it all day to fix it. After realizing that was impossible, I just simply drove away. I will eventually get it fixed, but it’s more money and time down the drain.

I have also been having difficulty with my social life on the Internet as well. Even though I don’t want to get into it, something has happened which has put me down and made me feel very low. It doesn’t help when I feel like nobody seems to care. I won’t go into details, but I’m having mixed emotions that’s driving me crazy and not in a good way.

So, there you have it. Home-related issue combined with money issues, a cyber-attack at work making it difficult with almost-endless overtime, feeling like a failure at Krav Maga, and social problems on the Internet all created a combination of extreme stress and anxiety that my mind can’t take. Therefore, I have decided to take a long-winded break from the Internet and keep to myself for the next few weeks. I’m sorry to all those who like to talk to me, but I need to do this. I’ll respond if it’s an emergency, but other than that, I need to keep to myself and be alone for the next few weeks. Hopefully, when I come back, I’ll be fully refreshed and renewed, and most of my problems will probably be going away.

Thank you all for your understanding.

TL; DR: I’ll be taking a long break from the Internet and social interactions for a while.