What’s happening?
I (you may as well) have been wondering why I haven’t been posting on my blog lately. The truth is that I am working on several projects at a time that I can’t blog about, because they are either at a very delicate stage or because I am not allowed to mention due to confidentiality agreements.
There is also personal developments that are keeping me busy which I cannot mention just yet due to privacy issues. Family members and close friends know about them. No worries. Nothing bad is going on. It’s good. It’s all good… 
Now that I mentioned the delicate stage of my projects, I remembered what happened the last time I mentioned a project I was working on. I even linked to the site and two days later the site was banned on Google. The poor thing almost died. It barely survived. So I guess I better keep my current and future projects secret, until they are strong enough to survive after revealing them on my blog. What I can say about my very latest web project is that it could be the one that will contribute the most to my retirement fund. Well, my semi-retirement fund. I don’t know about you, but retiring to me would mean something very close to death. I would have to do something with my life. It’s not like I can’t relax. Sure I would love to go for long trips or spend a few days with my family, chill around the house etc., but retirement to me would have to be something more active. I would have to be productive. I’m not sure why, (maybe it’s the way I was raised), but I always feel the need to give, to provide, to be productive to help others in order to be able to sleep well at night. For example, a couple of weeks ago, my herniated disk (causing sciatica) gave me a lot of back ache. So much so that I was unable to walk at all. I had to stay in bed for a whole day! I thought, my life was over. It was so bad that I could not even move to grab my laptop and get some work done. I got so depressed that I didn’t even want to watch TV or listen to anything, so I tried to sleep instead (to catch up, since I usually sleep 4-6 hours at night). Though this 24-hour bed-arrest did good for my back problem, I could barely wait to get out of bed and start moving my lazy ass. Sure, it took me a few days to recover so I could be able to walk without crutches, but I’m so glad to be able to walk without pain again. Most importantly: being able to walk at all, so I could get things done. Since I’m not a believer of medications, I now have to pay extra attention to my health: what and how much I eat (which is pretty hard for a vegetarian geek who sits more behind a computer than does anything else) and how I lift things to avoid future injuries. I have to do some exercises and constantly have to remind myself to stand up from my desk every 30-60 minutes for a 5-10 minute walk and when I have to walk for longer distances, I have to remind myself to sit down or at least take a little break every 15-30 minutes to allow my spine to relax a bit…
This reminds me: I just sat here for too long again, so I better go.
Tags: herniated disk, retirement, sciatica