[The screen comes to life with Nida stretched out on a bed. Which is of course weird because the guy just about lives in the dojo, or did. Still, this is where he is now, and do with that what you will.]

Hello all. I just remembered that I sort of failed to provide an update on this.

As some of you may have noticed, I seem to have spent the weekend living, oh, somewhere between 19 and 20 months back home. In the course of what I'm told was two days here. I was for all intents and purposes gone, and I had the dubious pleasure of returning here older, hopefully wiser, and a good deal more tired.

Given all of this I will be temporarily cutting back on the lesson hours I will be offering at the dojo. There are a few things I need to do to mentally reorient to life here, and even a week has not been sufficient for that. But as part of the process I'm trying to find some ways to relax myself.

So basically hi I'm here again and healthy.

[He grimaces briefly at the word choice because it's a few forms of inaccurate but whatever.]

And frankly if anyone has some good activities for means to relax, please share. I could use some, what was the phrase that was used?

Ah, 'Self-Care' days.

So I open the discussion to the town.

What do you do to make yourself feel better when you're stressed? I'm happy to try as many as are offered.

[Another look, this time one of regret, because, well, maybe that wasn't the best suggestion. Because he knows people here whose idea of relaxing is sexual in nature and that he can't manage.]