So, this has been a hell of a year now, hasn't it? Eleven months since my accident and, well, I'm out of work again. At least I managed to recover enough around October 18 last year to start getting back into my job. Of course, I got out of the neck brace, stopped taking blood thinners and other meds, just taking aspirin daily, and I can walk and do things again. Not perfectly, I'm still working on that bit. But I've been getting better. So, work was gradually getting me back to my normal routine and hours. Took some months, but I was basically back to what I was doing before shit happened. And then...shit happened again. You all know it. World stopped moving, I've been at home since the middle of March with basically nothing to do. Unemployment and the stimulus checks have helped tremendously- frankly, I'm making more now, sitting on my ass, than I was working my ass off at my job. Of course, that won't last forever. Whenever this pandemic actually rolls over and things do get back to normal, if ever (and if another spike doesn't happen from opening things up too early), then we'll be back to the usual. But at least I've managed to get a LOT of things fixed and much of my life set straight with this income. A lot of stuff I've needed for YEARS, I'm finally getting. And occasionally, giving some to people who weren't lucky enough to get it. Only thing that hasn't worked is getting the exercise I need to actually get my body working to full. I can't run due to my leg still being weak, and my wrist needs a lot more work. But it'll get there...sooner or later. We'll see what comes of all this. Mostly now, I'm dealing with depression in isolation. Talking with people helps, but there's only so much that can take care of. I've been quickly realizing how bad staying inside basically all the time is, and how much going outside and to work was actually necessary to just...not go insane. So I've taken whatever chance I can to ride my new electric bike around and just...see things. Get some air. Despite most places being closed, I can at least breathe a little bit. Other than that, I've taken to working on my series, little by little. I've actually made sort of a reset to pull it away from Pokemon so that I can make something original I can actually publish. My own world, my own creatures, my own story from scratch. Well, not entirely... Most things that have happened still happen, just in a new world without the ties to Pokemon lore. It's a lot of work, but it's coming around, slowly but surely. And the entire series will most likely be in the form of video games. So, we'll see how that goes. If you want to know more of that, I'm open to telling.

But all that aside, how has everyone else been doing? Has isolation treated you less harshly? Are your necessary jobs taking it easy on you any? Are you surviving? That's the goal, after all. "Survive 2020." We'll get through this, one way or another. Keep in touch, we all need it now.