Fri Aug 18 11:54:25 UTC 2017

I just had a crazy dream/nightmare and want to log it before it's gone.

Everyone was randomly excited for this weird Twilight Show-esque episode to premiere. It was two different TV shows each going to have an episode called, "The Latches" about something.

There was a party full of people presumeably waiting for one of these episodes to premiere. All of them are whispering about this creepy, kinda chubby kid. The kid keeps looking at where his shadow is. Suddenly he screams. "Wilson's back." A shadow--his shadow?--now has physical form and is wearing some sort of trench coat. The shadow starts floating through the house and anything human it comes into contact with gets distorted and... gory.

Someone was narrating something during this process. I don't remember what, exactly. "No one lasts long surrounded by their shadow."

This felt like a scene directed in a movie. Like, a close-up on the kid looking around. He's backing up. He backs up into a shelf and is a bit startled. His hand brushes a potato chip and there's a false scare, but he realizes it was just a snack. Then he just realizes that "Wilson's back" before even seeing the thing.

Right now it's super dark in my apartment and I'm actually a little creeped out for the first time in a long time.

Fri Aug 18 11:59:49 UTC 2017

Anyways, I'm still falling into a rhythm, and keeping this here diary hasn't hasn't been added to the priority queue, so to speak. I'd super like to proper blog every day (like have a little thing written each day like my dream above).

Mixpanel has been super cool, Stephan. It's going to be significantly different from my last job. Which is basically exactly what I wanted. Though, I don't think "significantly better". The last place was still super cool in my mind so far. I have already pushed code at Mixpanel. "Push code your first day," is an explicit goal there. I didn't quite make that. First week is pretty good, though.

There was some miscommunication about how my first week should go, as they're trying a different order of operations with me. I'm working at their Seattle office, but their main office is in San Francisco. Typically, the first week is still in SF, but they're trying setup in Seattle first, and then having my week in SF, so that my week in SF can be about why I'm in SF and not also about getting an introduction to working at Mixpanel.

Nothing major lost, just some meetings that I dialed into that they then decided I should do when I'm physically in SF so that I can physically attend them.

Fri Aug 18 12:14:07 UTC 2017

I have been sleeping on a traditional futon the last few days. Before that, I was just sleeping on a matt with some bed cushioning on top whilst the wife slept on the futon. She decided a real bed was in order and I ordered a Tuft & Needle twin bed. I have quite liked sleeping on the floor, but decided to upgrade to the futon as the matt was probably going too far (kept worrying I was losing circulation to my legs).

I'm not sure if the week or so of sleeping on the matt has skewed my judgement, but sleeping on the futon has been pretty great. It's properly comfortable and when I wake up I roll it up and have that much more room in the apartment (though room isn't exactly an issue even in this small studio).

Ever since switching to it, I have woken up each day around 5 a.m. for no discernable reason. Today, I guess the "nightmare" woke me up, but it didn't really register that much as a nightmare until I started thinking of it. In fact, the dream slowly came back to me in the minutes I took to wake up. My first though waking up was "why 5 a.m. again?".

Uusally I go back to bed, but last night I explicitly made the plan to try to stay awake upon waking up at this time and see how I feel.

Which was an excellent excuse to make a post in my diary, anyways.

It's been a half-hour and I feel like I could sleep more so I may just lay back down after all.

Fri Aug 18 15:35:25 UTC 2017

I logic'ed myself into going back to bed, but waking up was way more a chore and I feel no more awake. Over the weekend, if I'm waking up at 5 a.m., I'm staying up to see how tired I'll be throughout the day.