Nix/86 - Diary Comic - Days 101-107
14 Jan 2026 - Day 101 - 0 Steps
I finished a volunteer gig today and now i'll devote my mornings to Almanac #1. If I can get that formatted and up by the end of the month i'll feel good.
My appetite has crazy returned. It's kind of annoying but I need food to regain muscle.
The background page is half blue crayon and watercolor with the orange letters akimbo atop the "water" spelling out float.
15 Jan 2026 - Day 102 - 8 Steps
RUT
The background of the page is covered in yellow and brown with two squiggly lines in purple and blue kind of in the shape of an angry toothy mouth.
16 Jan 2026 - Day 103 - 24 Steps
A great walking day. I think the biking is really starting to help. Up to 20 minutes - 2x 10 minutes.
I spent the last two days editing the almanac in Calibre. I managed to get the first volume finally released as an EPUB into the world. There is still more to do - edit the print version, distribute it to more locations (get it really OUT THERE), and then move on to the next volume. I've been putting that project to the sideline for so long and releasing it to the world finally IS SO FREAKING EXCITING!
In the lower right corner is a quick doodle of a pizza with the text: ZA-NIGHT basil puck pesto, garlic base, parmesan and mozzarella, pepperoni, castelvrano olives, spinach, pepperoncini, mushrooms, cold fermented dough.
17 Jan 2026 - Day 104 - 0 Steps
Catching up on my drawing challenge. Feeling clean and sparkly after bathing. The drawing is my therapy. It is the tiny thing I can turn to on a daily basis to calm the senses in one respect. But it's so much more than that. IT IS NECESSARY.
The background of the page is a light red with a doodle of a salsa picante jar and the words in crayon Scribbles are necessary.
18 Jan 2026 - Day 105 - 0 Steps
KP is at the ceramics studio this morning so I am hanging in the sunshine watching YT videos, arting, and reading The Count of Monte Cristo with my coffee. It is cozy and quiet. It has been so quiet lately after the holiday tourist tsunami. I love winter here even though this winter is more springlike. I also did a 5 minute seated core video, it feels awesome to have the energy to move and exercise.
There is a doodle of a 2 lb hand weight at the top right of the page.
There is a doodle of a chunky book Count of Monte Cristo an adventure in every page- all 1000+ of them in the lower left.
There is a doogle of a cellphone with Youtube video playing A lazy drawing of me watching Youtube on my phone. Svalbard via Cecelia.
19 Jan 2026 - Day 106 - 24 Steps
This was a champion walking day, seems like I have one of these a week. Sometime this week I want to push myself to make it to the chair.
The background of the page is covered in two shades of solid blue sandwiching squiggly lines like a topographic map in various shades of blue ballpoint pen.
20 Jan 2026 - Day 107 - 6 Steps
The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventure in every chapter. I love it so far (1/3 of the way in!) Staying on a good work schedule. I've biked 50 odd miles so far according to the bike computer. It feels so good to be moving daily. I want to start adding in another walk session into my days now that my legs arn't weak noodles. Some days the walking is ok, some days I wake up so stiff I can only get a few steps in.
Scones is written above a picture of my left hand with a gray woolen wrist warmer covering the back of it. In between each exposed finger is written KP knitted me some wrist warmers they are cozy!