Accidents, incidents and general outlines of a bumpy 2023

Having a day off work, finally, I was thinking to catch up, and finally starting training again. But as fate want it, I went to the gym a bit too strongly, and even if I did only the following:

2 min rowing
10 min inclined 15 % treadmill
5 x10 rep upper back pull-up machine
5 x 10 rep lower back pull-up machine
5 x 8 rep chest dumbbells
3x 8 rep chest machine
2 x 10 rep knees up hanging on

The results were disastrous, at least for now. All the muscles around the neck, trapezium, and shoulders are aching and contracted, limiting my neck movement. I hope I’ll be better today, after a sauna session. If not, I will have a very difficult two days shift at work, on weekend.

Meanwhile, the banks started another disinformation campaign, with the Bank of England being the first to tell us porkies. They raise the interest again, making it even harder for people who borrowed or have a mortgage, with the general story being that we are in recession and there is a crisis, probably to last until 2025–2026. Then they say what they really want, under the generic quote ‘ it will be harder for borrowers, but better for savers’ and this makes me laugh, and 9 out…