Hi everyone:

My update: filed an application for short term disability. Meaning, filed my part. Now the sleep medicine NP needs to fill out her part, which she says she will do next week. Monday was tough because I had a 9 hour long vertigo episode which kept me in bed, but on other days of the week I have managed to do daily exercise. To wit: strength training, recumbent elliptical, recumbent stationary bike, upright stationary bike, treadmill, walking outside, and walking in warm water (this is cumulative over Tuesday through Friday).

I also work on my creative writing project, alternating between leveraging ChatGPT and Gemini. I will try Claude next week, too. Gemini is free for 4 months through the referral link received from my friend, who is a power user. ChatGPT latest model is free from my employer, while I am still employed and on an FMLA. Claude I will be using the free version, but if I find it works best, I will consider purchasing their latest model if they have a paid version, after my 4 months of Gemini run out (at that time I will need to dedice what to purchase).

Overall, I must say that I am getting amazing results from collaborating with AI.

Between long hours of sleep, which is part of my sleep disorder, time in bed due to vertigo episodes, writing, exercising, grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning, that has pretty much been my week. Oh, and I now have T sessions twice a week. In some of them I read samples of my writing and we discuss them.

P.S. After writing for several days, I switched to idea sandboxing in bullet points, and then switched to working with AI on some issues I had with rendering some of the ideas that come to me in Russian in English. I write in English, but occasionally I think in Russian, and AI helps translate quite well. I am duly impressed.