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Exercise is good for the soul.

So... Yesterday I made it a point to get 10,000 steps in throughout the day. This included a 2.25 Mile walk with one of my friends around a lake in the area. Then once my girlfriend got out of work at 6:00pm her and I went for another 1.5 mile walk on a walking path near her house. Today... I loaded up my bike onto the back of my car and did a 7 mile bike ride on one of the bike paths in my area. Total time was about 45 minutes to complete. I burned about 300 calories.

My mental health right now is good. I wont say it's great... with the Corona virus closing virtually every business in the area it's hard for me to tell if the paranoid feeling is still there because I'm not out in public. What I can tell is that when I went to get gas this morning I didn't have the feeling that the cameras were secretly being monitored by the government in an attempt to track my whereabouts. That had been a common feeling I had with everything because we live in the age of surveillance and its entirely possible that some where... some server is secretly dedicated to me and tracking my every movement. The Brightside is that there would likely be a server out there somewhere tracking you too... so it would be a universal thing... not just targeting me. And... considering I'm a rather unimportant individual... the likelihood that I would end up on any red flag scenarios is rather low.

We will see how the rest of this weekend goes,

That's all for now,

-T.A. Michaels.

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