Progress.

There's progress. Isn't that nice?

Said progress is going on in multiple areas. First of all, the personal/health thing is one part - I've been tracking all my food, which is annoying and a nuisance and sometimes feels really ridiculous (weighing out salad, thank you very much), but at least it's working. I've managed to more or less stick to the goal of not eating above a certain amount of calories, and it's showing on the numbers of the scale. That is nice, and motivating, and keeps me going even though it's hard at times. There's been a distinct and very lamentable lack of cake these past weeks, and reduced amounts of everything, especially the non-crucial stuff like chocolate. (Well, chocolate is crucial in some regard, but when push comes to shove, it's unfortunately empty calories, and there's not much space for these in my plan.) A few more weeks of this are looming ahead, which is sort of disheartening (soooo long to go!) but on the other hand, I managed to do this for months back in 2016 so I know I can do it. 

What I can definitely say is that it is easier now that I have the HRT to keep me sane, and sort-of-normal, and functioning on a basic level. I did try to do dieting stints in the past two or three years, but just didn't manage to get the necessary motivation and stick-to-it-iveness.While the basic fact remains that it is always possible to reduce calories and thus lose weight, there are definitely life and health circumstances that will make it harder, and depending on all kinds of factors, possibly also temporarily impossible. 

There's also progress on the shop stock overhaul; replenishing things, taking stock and finally getting new stuff into the shop did happen. There's a plan to rearrange some of the storage furniture here as well, which will take place after I've been to the Nähtreff at Rothenfels, because then the storage shelves will be more or less emptied out anyways (as a lot of the stock travels with me to be set up as a market stall). 

The website is mostly up and running, with a few remaining issues to be solved and some articles (that have been taken offline a while ago) to be re-written and placed back online, but none of that is crucial or really time-critical (at least not compared to other stuff), so for now, I'm good with how it works.

Next on the progress list is removing some of the old backups, and setting up a new (better) system; I've been using a backup programme that leaves me not so very confident in its reliability. (In case you're wondering: It's Acronis. The programme puts everything in a huge archive file, and when I try to access them on the RAID, there are sometimes hiccups that need to be resolved, probably due to the connection quality.) This means it's time to re-evaluate, and switch, and make space on the RAID to get the new version going. That's a slow progress as well, but things are happening here too.

Of course, there's the usual long list of stuff to be done - writing stuff, sorting stuff (in my next life, I will be more organised, and less messy, at least that is my cunning plan), organising travel for the next events. Preparing workshops at Rothenfels.

No progress yet on planning the next online workshops, something very high on the list... but overall, it feels like things are going okay. Which is a very, very nice feeling!