Not a bad week, but once again, bit of a mixed bag. Can I pay my bills? Yes. Did I hit my activity goals? Yes. Can I get a repairman in without panic? Not really. I’m feeling a bit better today in general, but still kinda frustrated.

On the health stuff, I have upped my activity points goal to 300 – the fitbit I replaced a couple months back is far more sensitive to activity, and I think gives me far too much credit some days. But, made the new goal! And drank all my water!

Household stuff – a bit up and down, but I did get things done.

Financials – I tweaked it a bit and put in estimates for the rest of the month, as month to date can look a bit weird when you have bills due on the 1st and get paid on the 5th and whatnot.

Time to retirement – ~13.5 years – the number is a bit up and down as I’m still tweaking estimates and finding things I’d forgotten to add. I’m trying to figure out how to speed that up, cause, I don’t know how many good working years I have left at this point. Good news, no baseball expenses next month, so that’s something. Granted, the below also assumes I don’t eat for the rest of the month, but whatever.

We’re in a hiring freeze at work again, since we’re apparently not gonna make sales goals, which means bonuses will be crap come February, and they’ll use it as an excuse yet again for crap raises and no promotions – but fuck, I’m too old to find something new at this point.

A side hustle would come in handy – even $300 a month would do it – but I have zero idea what I’d do or if I’d even have the time for it. So, guess I get to see if I can cut $300 in costs a month? (On that note, I did just put up 2 pitchers of cold brew for the week to keep that Starbucks tab down.) I’ll also be calling the cable company this week to see what we can do about the cable/internet/TV bill, cause it’s ridiculous. The last time I was at the shop to replace a cable card, they told me that the retention department could get me a better deal, with an equipment upgrade to boot, so I need to get on top of that.

I think this afternoon I’ll spend some time figuring out what I can cut in September.