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it is from trump 2.0, plus co-president elon, who decided in his infinitely arrogant stupidity to try to destroy my industry. miraculously, i did keep my job (for now). back home from my trip and first day back at work today, seems like everything is pretty much in chaos.

sunday-wednesday last week

- ski 4-6 hours per day

friday

- run x ~5 miles

sunday

- run x ~5 miles

ribs still not fully healed but they feel okay. just lingering soreness, which wasn't helped by descending all the hilariously steep SF/oakland hills. i always forget how nutty the streets are there. skiing was an absolute blast.

found out yesterday that i am 95% likely to get furloughed (i.e., placed on leave without pay) on february 14. there's a 3% chance that i keep my full-time post and a 2% chance that my position is terminated altogether. deep breaths.

ribs continue to improve: they are now just sore, no acute pain. really, really glad that they're healing in time for my ski trip, which starts this weekend! i'm not going to run before then, just in the interest of not pushing my luck with recovery. will do some walking today, probably outside as i'm taking a sick day and so will have time during the day for it.

just so limiting.

- treadmill hill walk x 30 mins

- stairmaster x 10 mins

ribs a little worse than yesterday, bummer.

ribs still fucked.

- run 1:05:07, 10.28 km
ribs felt okay throughout the day, even as i was up and about, taking down our christmas tree and carrying it out. definitely sore but nothing too bad. i thought running would be fine. immediately they started hurting. i thought i'd maybe warm up out of the worst discomfort. nope. there's two big steep descents on the route i ran today and they sucked. so much groaning.

i'll take a walk tomorrow just to get some movement in, but a run would be foolish. damn it.

the sky is falling in my industry, thanks to trump. hope it's a temporary fall and things are stable by april. but right now things are looking bleak. our CEO just sent an email out to everyone saying, in part, "our first priorities are funding the salaries and benefits of our staff worldwide." so i'm not staring down the barrel of an imminent furlough or reduction in LOE, which is a little bit comforting. but that is NOT a sentence you want to have to read.

obviously, a lot of his EOs and other actions in office are worse: more violent, or targeted are more vulnerable people, or with more dire long-term consequences for the world. but the one about foreign aid, and subsequent decisions from the state department, is the most personal to me and my wife. we're all in for a really, really bad four years, and that's if we get lucky and he and his henchmen and hangers-on fail to fully shred the constitution.

still getting in ~3 workouts per week, though!