February 17, 2026: Recovering from Late Night Drive

It was almost three in the morning when I managed to fall asleep after having driven to Managua and back in the middle of the night. Marcela had not yet gotten in to see the doctor by the time that I was home and getting into bed with the dogs.

I actually was up decently early considering how late I was out last night. I got up around seven and got right to work. There is so much to do. I’m very busy with work and it’s feeling a bit overwhelming. I had been looking forward to an evening of hanging out with Liesl and Luciana last night as we had planned, but I had to drive to Managua instead so a night of relaxing turned into a very exhausting night instead.

Today I pretty much had to camp out in the office. I’m working on several projects in parallel. It’s exhausting, but I got a lot of good work done today at least.

The girls hung out all afternoon playing video games together. We are really hoping to get a Steam Machine this year. We’ve been limping as far as video game machines here for a long time now.

Luciana has not felt that she could handle watching The Expanse again, because it is so heavy, or playing Dungeons & Dragons all week because she’s so sad about Chocolate Milk.

I worked until very late.