Daily Entry: April 23rd, 2018

Mon Apr 23 17:37:37 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2200
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2200
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 10 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • No.
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0715
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0715
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • No
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 9 hours
  • Did you take any medication that might have affected your sleep? What? When?
    • No

Evening sleep questions:

  • Did you nap today? How many times? When? How long?
    • 1600: 30 minutes.
  • Did you consume any medicine that you do not take on a daily basis? What? How much? When?
    • No.
  • Did you have any caffeinated or alcoholic beverages today? What? How much? When?
    • @1000 15mg caffeine (Brew Dr. Kombucha)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 2
Mon Apr 23 17:38:43 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0715: 215.2 lbs
  • @1800: 214.0 lbs

Food tracking:

Goals:

  • 3500 calories
  • 20g processed sugar
  • 120g protein (20g every 3 hours)

Protein @0730:

  • Pea protein: 100
  • Banana: 100 (200)

Breakfast @1000:

  • Brew Dr. Kombucha: 60 (260)
  • Biscuit: 400 (660)
  • Banana: 100 (760)
  • Apple: 100 (860)
  • Carrots: 20 (880)
  • Hummus: 150 (1030)
  • Black bean chips: 170 (1200)
  • Avocado: 300 (1500)
  • Ripple pea milk: 70 (1570)
  • Clementine: 35 (1605)

Protein @1200:

  • Pea protein: 100 (1705)

Post-dentist meal @1500:

  • Bagel: 230 (1935)
  • Hummus: 150 (2185)
  • Ripple pea milk: 70 (2255)

Dinner @1930:

  • Vegan breakfast burrito: 750 (3005)
  • Banana: 100 (3105)
  • Ripple pea milk: 70 (3175)

Protein @2100:

  • Pea protein: 100 (3275)
  • Blackberries: 50 (3325)
Mon Apr 23 17:57:51 UTC 2018
Time (PDT) Intention Revision 1 Revision 2
0000 SLEEP
0030 SLEEP
0100 SLEEP
0130 SLEEP
0200 SLEEP
0230 SLEEP
0300 SLEEP
0330 SLEEP
0400 SLEEP
0430 SLEEP
0500 SLEEP
0530 SLEEP
0600 SLEEP
0630 SLEEP
0700 SLEEP
0730 Morning routine
0800 Climbing
0830 Shower
0900 Run to work
0930 Start-of-work routine
1000 Breakfast
1030 Organization
1100 PLANNING
1130 Multidataset Test Student Loan Review
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Dentist appointment
1330 Dentist appointment
1400 Dentist appointment
1430 Dentist appointment
1500 NAP Snack
1530 Multidataset Test Random exploration
1600 Multidataset Test NAP
1630 End of day review
1700 Run home
1730 Stretching/Shower
1800 Cooking Grocery shopping
1830 Cooking
1900 Eating Cooking
1930 Gaming: Overwatch Eating
2000 Gaming: Overwatch
2030 Reading
2100 End of day routine
2130 TV
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Mon Apr 23 18:52:38 UTC 2018

Getting distracted by various personal chores. Should focus on work....

Mon Apr 23 23:37:30 UTC 2018

Today ended up being a lot of looking at random things. Important things, mostly, mind you. Not browsing for the sake of browsing. But not focusing on the the priority thing.

These things happen. What's important is to consider what I can do to avoid this in the future. I think I'm already on the right track. I'm rereading Getting Things Done and there's a lot of good advice in there for stuff like that.

I'm also at a new part of my current task that simply requires thinking about what I'm doing before doing. This thinking should be done in my private .plan file, which is what I'll be doing now.

Mon Apr 23 23:49:26 UTC 2018

Made an ad hoc plan for the week, culminating with the finishing of this task on Friday. Well, finished as in I move on to other things. Really I'll keep updating it because this task is important and there'll be lots of follow-up work to do related to it and related to future tasks (aka building tests for the next task).

Tue Apr 24 04:18:53 UTC 2018

It's interesting to me to see how my weight flutuates throughout the day, so I'm capturing it at various times of day. Really, once when I wake up and once when I'm about to shower after running home and stretching.

Things did not go according to timeblock today. At all. That's okay. Timeblock is negiotiable. What's not okay is that I didn't do a good time negiotiating. Sure, I told myself what I should be doing, but I didn't switch to that. I was in an obsessive mood, but not on a current priority.

Something to recognize and work my way out of in the future. I do this sometimes when I'm trying to sleep, and manage to get out okay via a sort've meditation. Perhaps that is a good goal.

  1. Recongize.
  2. Meditate.
  3. Try again.

I've been making my after-run stretching meditation. I used to use my watch to track the duration of a stretch, and now I count my breaths. Keeps me focused on solid breathing while stretching. Clears the mind. I got the idea after reading the yoga chapter of The First 20 Hours.

Dentist appointment today went well. Teeth are perfectly healthy. I told my dentist that I brush, floss, and listerine in the morning and brush at night. She recommended I floss at night (once a day is fine). Also, listerine is a preference thing. Not necessary. Think I'll stop that, then.

Haven't banned blogs from my information diet. Read quite a few today. They're all premium sites, but my currency is in the 700s now so that's not really a concern. It's about my current philosophy being rock-hard against reddit, twitter, and the like. My life is so much better without them. But the blogs.... I'm not sure. The webcomics I can go back to, but the blogs I probably won't.

Perhaps blogs should be a Sunday thing, though. Sunday morning paper sort of thing.

Anyways, the blogs I read today are:

I'm really into atheist blogs that have a lot of politics and also a lot of criticism to put forth towards the atheist community. All three of these blogs do that often. The Love Joy Feminism post was interesting because it falls in line with my experience a little bit.

Anyways, I'm out of time for my end of day routine. See ya tomorrow.