Daily Overview: Sunday, April 10th

Happy Easter.

I tackled my session in the late afternoon after a long hike. I really need to rest, so this will be a short entry.

Light to frequent tics today. My hand has been in more pain than usual.

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this, but I’m a rock climber and I love indoor bouldering- it’s very convenient. Shout out to MOVEMENT climbing gym! I haven’t been able to climb as often recently, but I really benefit from this. It’s a great way to engage my entire body and spend some of the energy that sometimes keeps me up at night. It offers interesting mental challenges also. Unfortunately, if my hand loses any more dexterity due to tics…it will start to REALLY challenge my climbing abilities. I’m desperate to manage this, so today, I started holding an hand exerciser while I’m driving. Now every time I clench my fist, I’m working out my forearms and strengthening my fingers. Pretty good idea, right? I just have to make sure I even this out by exercising my left hand just as often. ONE veiny forearm would be…not a good look. 😂

YGTSS SCORE: 24

3 CBT exercises.

DAY 4 SCORES:

(A) 10 Minute (Warm-Up) 22% 24s 1595p

(B) 15 Minute (Endurance) 38% 29s 10478p (!)

(C) 13 Minute (Cool-Down) 13% 9s 886p

BEST SCORE (B)

I achieved a MASSIVELY consistent flow-state during B session. I wonder if labeling my second session “endurance” has effected me or caused me to put forth more effort and/or less on the other two games. I hope not. If so, I’ll have to remove all of the labels. This is one of many potential drawbacks of being the clinician and the patient. I’ll overthink almost every part of this process at some point. Based on today’s experience, I think I’m “getting the hang of it”, but it’s too early to tell.

I let my kids try the headset today and run one or two guest sessions. It was a hit- they really got a kick out of it. They’re both under 10 years old. As the cool weirdo stepdad, I’ve made it my job to expose my kids to new tech, science and artificial intelligence concepts and tools as often as possible. As far as technology goes, I want to ensure my kids are always trying to keep up with ME, and not the other way around. It keeps me busy, and I want them to have every advantage I wished I had.

Despite popular opinion, I really look forward to the future ahead of us. No other time to be alive like right now.

That’s it for today.