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What's up, everybody? You know, I don't know how many of you have had this experience, but

the pandemic has made it a lot harder for me to take a break.

And I think that's because I'm exclusively working from home and just spending less time seeing

friends or doing stuff outside of the house. And because I'm a bit of a workaholic, it ends up

becoming just another excuse to work more. And I recently started to really recognize that

this was probably not sustainable. And further to the point, I think it was actually messing with

my creativity and also just leaving me feeling kind of deflated and uninspired.

So I decided to take a vacation for the first time during this entire pandemic, which itself has

been really hard. I mean, Radigan Carter really nailed it in our recent conversation when he

compared it to finishing a year-long deployment. I think most of us probably don't appreciate

just how taxing this has been and how it's affected us mentally and emotionally.

So my fiancee and I who I've mentioned a few times now, I call her my sort of kind of wife

because it kind of feels like we're married, but because of the pandemic, the wedding never happened,

which I was kind of okay with because, well, we established that I'm a workaholic. So yeah,

planning a wedding would take away from that. But she's very good with pointing out to me that I

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