I gave platelets and plasma today and it happened again! Something went wrong and I had to switch arms. I think my days of always getting stuck in the left arm may be over because the vein just has too much scar tissue. Joy. Also, I just had to restart my laptop several times because it will still connect to the WiFi but it won't get web pages. This time at least once it was connecting to this site in particular but not to any others. I got several pages from E2 but couldn't get it from any other sites that I tried. How? HOW?! It makes no sense. Moreover, this is the first time that I restarted it and it stopped working within seconds of connecting. It did it multiple times. It is working now but I am concerned.
Kinda related, I'll be on a week long hike in November which would really cut into my IRON NODING. Also, I said that I was going to write thirty nodes between this and last November. I've gotten about halfway done on that front in terms of published write-ups and three quarters if I include all of the stuff that I've written but haven't gotten edited or have half written. I think I will spend the remainder of October furiously writing to complete the remainder of my thirty write-ups and just use them to fill in the time that I will be majorly AFK. Is this against the spirit of what I said and the spirit of IRON NODER? Yes, yes it is. Is it against the letter of either? No. I'm not proud of this decision but I am desperate to live up to the artificial constraints that I and other people put on me and my motivation and focus for writing has been utter crap for the last few weeks so this may be the best I will manage.