On October 2nd this newsletter turned four years old. Which is hard to believe. Sometimes it seems like I have been writing this blog for decades, but usually it feels like it’s been only a year or so. Anyway, join me in celebrating the 4th anniversary (plus several days) of Too Early Old, Too Late Smart. Jennifer and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary on October 8th as well. October is a big month in house Peepas-Nichols.
October has flown by. I finally started my internship for my recovery support specialist class. It’s going pretty well, but I am about five to six weeks behind most of my cohort—the organization that I am interning at is glacial in its onboarding process. My internship will definitely go into next year. I am a little more than halfway through the classroom portion of my program—it ends on December 22. I successfully completed my major presentation and I fairly easily passed my midterm examination. I continue to learn a lot about what it is to be a peer support/recovery support specialist, and I am very excited to sit my exam next year. And then (hopefully soon) start my career as a Certified Recovery Support Specialist. I cannot wait to need business cards. I am fifty years old and I have never had a business card. I realize that they’re basically an artifact of another age, but I look forward to having some nonetheless.
Between work, school, and internship I have more than enough on my plate right now, so this is not a priority, but I am removing the blog from Substack in 2024. It has been a decision that I have not made lightly, but one that will involve a lot of work and more than a little bit of money to follow through on, so it may be late 2024 before I leave. My internet friend Andrea Grimes just left Substack and wrote why and how to leave here, and I will follow her advice on how to do it. Some of the hard stuff has already been done, I own toolatesmart.net and org, and tooearlyoldtoolatesmart.com, and I already know how to use WordPress, but I will have to personally refund everyone that is currently subscribed to this newsletter. It’s not a small amount of money for my broke ass, and it will take time to gather, but gather it I will. I don’t like a subscription model anyway—it puts too much pressure on me to create. I can barely write when everything is going great and when I feel pressured at all, I cave-in like a Coke can dropped into the Mariana Trench. I will give plenty of notice before I jump this fascists-coddling ship.
Before I go, I want to bring up another anniversary in my life. On October 27th, 2013 I quit smoking. Ten years, y’all!
Whenever I think that I cannot possibly accomplish anything of importance, I need to remember that I have successfully done something that it seemed for decades impossible to do. For ten years. Surely I can accomplish a few more near-impossible goals, right? Or at least learn how to paint or some shit.
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