i had an itch today to dive into coherence again, but the day had other plans. i started off with another terrible migraine, although i'm generally sure i know what i'm doing to my body that's been causing this. i effectively lost the whole work day and focused instead on a bunch of other random tasks i've been meaning to complete.

i did a lot of research on data backups and have prepared a drive with GParted on it. tomorrow, i want to attempt to do a backup of all of my data on my work laptop as a test. afterwards, i want to try to backup my corrupted windows drive on the same computer, and finally i'll backup my home PC, hopefully understanding how to put all of those images on the same external SSD by then. it might take more than tomorrow to accomplish all of this, but i'm sort of still idling on work this week until stuff starts to happen...

in the meantime, to add to my research i did some stuff for family and a little bit of coherence. it wasn't much, but i think i'm okay accepting that my health has been a little weird lately and my motivation is still there.