Wed Apr 5 12:33:27 EDT 2017

After a long bit of laziness and forgetfullness, I'm back.

I'm also hoping to actually be working on projects soon. I've setup my desk into a standing desk (picture soon), organized both my physical inbox and my email inbox, and caught up on five months of tickler inactivity. For the last few days I've been doing tickler stuff right away. Feels pretty good.

Had an email conversation with someone you might know, Stephan. He thought Atom seemed like the obvious choice.

No real reason not to explore both and choose eventually.

Though, if Atom has macros (it seems VSCode does not), it may be a no-brainer.

Wed Apr 5 12:36:11 EDT 2017

Just did a quick Google, seems Atom does have macros? May be an extension. We'll see.

Wed Apr 5 12:37:50 EDT 2017

Trying out timeblocking today. Not sure how I want to go about it, I'll want to review it each day to come up with better execution strategies, I think. Weekly reviews should start becoming a thing, too.

Wed Apr 5 14:07:23 EDT 2017

Watched some Rick and Morty with fam. Going to play some Just Dance with wife.

Will probably stretch and run afterwards.

Wed Apr 5 16:17:56 EDT 2017

Just Dancing tired me out a lot more than I anticipated. Might not run. About to finish stretching (watched more Rick and Morty with cousin).

Having trouble staying focused. I need to start a proper half-hour of focused work soon. Well, that's the plan anyways. A half-hour with a solid goal of something to have finished by the end of it.

Wed Apr 5 17:00:34 EDT 2017

Stretched, showered, and thinking I should really start my half-hour....

Wed Apr 5 17:25:41 EDT 2017

All right, at 17:30 I will start doing programming-related thing. Until then I will watch as much of Youtube video I'm watching (won't finish it).

Wed Apr 5 17:33:09 EDT 2017

Oops, got absorbed. Pausing now.

Wed Apr 5 17:33:21 EDT 2017

All right, all right. I need to do something. Doesn't matter what, I can reflect later and prioritize then. I have something a friend wants to make with me, and I haven't done anything with it for weeks, let's do that.

First step: make a section of my site run via Django. Which means plugging into my nginx setup. And I've had [this page][http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/Django_and_nginx.html] open for exactly that purpose for weeks now. I'll be glad to exit that page. I should be able to have the Django startup stuff setup before 1800, so let's do this.

Wed Apr 5 17:36:58 EDT 2017

Listening to music to drown out any possible distractions.

Opening nginx site configuration file.

Wed Apr 5 18:01:50 EDT 2017

Failed to get this setup working by 1800. Damn. Followed tutorial and page timed out.

Wed Apr 5 18:08:29 EDT 2017

Figured it out thanks to a Stack Overflow post.

Need to switch "--http :8001" to "--socket :8001".

All right, got a hello world up. Not even a django site. Next block will be for a Django site. I'll do at least one more half-hour block today. Tomorrow will be two 35-minute blocks. I will increase the timing of the blocks by 5 minutes until I got two 2-hour blocks. Those'll be my "deep work" blocks. Shallow-work and various other productive work will still be desired and necessary.

Wed Apr 5 18:25:22 EDT 2017

Did a Just Dance break with wife. I am determined to get good at "Put a Ring On It" song.

Wed Apr 5 22:27:26 EDT 2017

Spent some time lollygagging. The wife would like to play Overwatch, but I need to do one more productive chunk, so until 2300 I will work some more on site.

Wed Apr 5 23:13:29 EDT 2017

Through an incredibly distracting bit of time, I have nginx serving the django server. ksionda.me/django is now complaining about trying to access from a disallowed host, which is django setup stuff, which will be what I get done tomorrow.

Wed Apr 5 23:16:57 EDT 2017

Now it is time to play some Overwatch.

Well, after I finish brewing tomorrow's coffee.

That reminds me, I need to start studying Japanese again.

If you're wondering how coffee reminded me to start studying Japanese again. Though I correctly wrote it as coffee, I said it in my head as koohii, which is the way it is said in Japanese.

Wed Apr 5 23:20:40 EDT 2017

Overwatch time. Closing diary. See you tomorrow.