Daily Entry: May 21st, 2018

Tue May 22 06:20:36 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?
    • 0030: 10 minutes
    • 0530: 5 minutes
    • 0600: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0700
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0730
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Preparing for SF trip
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 8 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?
    • Attempt @1530: 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?
    • @0930 45 mg caffeine (venti decaf soy latte)
    • @1030 15 mg caffeine (decaf black coffee on plane)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 5
Tue May 22 06:23:03 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @2330: 214.2 lbs (15.3 stones, apparently)

Breakfast @0730:

  • Waffles: 400
  • Banana: 100 (500)
  • Blueberries: 50 (550)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (650)

Starbucks @0930:

  • Venti decaf soy latte: 150 (800)

Lunch @1400:

  • Flying falafel: 1000 (1800)

Snack @1600:

  • Mango: 200 (2000)

Dinner @1000:

  • Pizza: 1500 (3500)
Tue May 22 06:27:52 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 Laying in bed
0730 Breakfast/packing
0800 Walk to train
0830 Train to airport
0900 TSA
0930 Waiting to board
1000 Flight to SF and Reading: 4DX
1030 Flight to SF and Arb3 Testing Documentation
1100 Flight to SF and Arb3 Testing Documentation
1130 Flight to SF and Reading: 4DX
1200 Travel to Flying Falafel and Reading: 4DX
1230 Travel to Flying Falafel and Reading: 4DX
1300 Walk to work
1330 Walk to work
1400 Eating/Seaprodeng Stand up
1430 OpsLead begins
1500 Organizing
1530 NAP attempt
1600 Organizing
1630 Walk to airbnb
1700 Check into airbnb
1730 Chilling
1800 Something's broken and False alarm and Travel to friend's choir performance
1830 Travel to friend's choir performance
1900 Reading: 4DX
1930 Choir performance is rad
2000 Choir performance is rad
2030 Choir performance is rad
2100 Hanging out
2130 Pizza
2200 Travel to airbnb
2230 to airbnb
2300 BACKLOG
2330 SLEEP Diary thinking
Tue May 22 06:32:43 UTC 2018

Before I go to sleep, a quick entry about a brand new, already over, temporary friendship with Jenna. I met her on my way to the BART station at 19th St in Oakland. I was coming back from my friend's rad choir performance, vegan pizza from Extreme Pizza in hand, when I met Jenna.

"Do you know if the BART station is on this street? And if so, which direction to go in?" she asked.

I myself wasn't sure if I was on the right street. "If it's on this streetm, it's in that direction," I told her, pointing the direction I was already walking. "We can find it together or fail together," I offered. "Want a slice of pizza?"

I had gotten way too much pizza for myself.

"No, thanks."

She had just moved to Berkeley, and she wasn't staying. Her partner had gotten a job here but already resigned, so they were spending the month there exploring before moving on.

"Why are you here? For pizza?" she asked me. I explained that I wor in SF for a week every few months and that a friend had a choir performance in the area. I added that the pizza place was open and had vegan options. "Oh, you're vegan? Me too." She pointed at some badges she had pinned to her purse.

We talked about random things. It was a pleasant experience. My train came and I told her, "I'm glad our two ships passed each other in the night. Have a good life." And that was that.

There's something special about people you meet and never meet again, Stephan. I cherish such friendships. They have their place right alongside lifelong relationships, I think. Just as valid. Just as real. Not as important, to be properly honest, but still something I'm glad to inject into my life.

And so, I want to remember it. What other reason do diaries exist for?

Tue May 22 06:44:53 UTC 2018

I've gotten to the point where there are posts from the previous year on this blog! Trippy.

It has inspired me to reflect on last year's post, last month's post, and last week's post (I already look at yesterday's post each day).

Last year I wrote about making pygame exe files. Also, noticed that markdown was maintaining line breaks and "fixed" that by undoing line breaks in the markdown. I would later fix it via settings so I could have the file look how I wanted it to in the editor. Notably, the title is "May 21th", not "May 21st".

Last month was the Sunday my sister was in town. I had a lot to write about the day, even though it belonged to my wife. I am just about finished with The First 20 Hours at this point last month. I was feeling really confident about projects, but have only kept up with rock-climbing.

Which is still a victory.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution is proving to be a great read in its own right, and ironically may be giving me the framework I need to make serious progress on projects.

We'll see though.

Tue May 22 06:53:35 UTC 2018

It's way past time for bed. Last week can be skipped today.