Daily Entry: August 21st, 2018

Tue Aug 21 16:12:18 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • YNAB DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • JIRA DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Digitize hand-written notes N/A
  • Review last year NOT UNTIL THE 30TH
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
  • Review the Day SKIPPED
Tue Aug 21 16:12:28 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • Waited too long, don't remember it anymore.
  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2200
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2230
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 5 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • 0530: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0800
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0830
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Smoke still smogging the city
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 9 hours 20 minutes
  • 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?
    • 1405: 20 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 30 mg caffeine (decaf coffee)
    • @1030 15 mg caffeine (brew dr kombucha)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 2
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 2000
Tue Aug 21 16:13:49 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0830: 209.2 lbs
Tue Aug 21 16:22:50 UTC 2018

Protein @0830:

  • Soy protein: 110

Breakfast @1000:

  • Nuts: 175 (285)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (385)
  • Hummus: 150 (535)
  • Carrots: 20 (555)
  • Apple: 100 (655)
  • Clementine: 35 (690)

Lunch @1200:

  • Bagel: 230 (920)
  • Avocadoe: 300 (1220)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (1320)
  • Plum: 100 (1420)

Protein @1500:

  • Pea protein: 100 (1520)
  • Banana: 100 (1620)
  • Blueberries: 50 (1670)

Dinner @1800:

  • Mac and teese: 600 (2270)
  • Mango: 100 (2370)
  • Banana: 100 (2470)

Protein @2100:

  • Soy protein: 110 (2580)
  • Banana: 100 (2680)
Tue Aug 21 16:25:23 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 SLEEP
0800 Laying in bed
0830 Morning routine
0900 Pomodoro: Planning
0930 Bus to work
1000 Start of work routine
1030 Pomodoro: JIRA
1100 Pomodoro: JIRA
1130 Pomodoro: JIRA
1200 Lunch
1230 Pomodoro: JIRA
1300 Pomodoro: JIRA
1330 Pomodoro: JIRA
1400 NAP
1430 Pomodoro: JIRA
1500 Pomodoro: JIRA
1530 Pomodoro: JIRA
1600 Pomodoro: JIRA
1630 1:1 with Alex
1700 Bus home
1730 Grocery shopping
1800 Cooking/Eating
1830 Buffer Eating/Reading
1900 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin
1930 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin
2000 Time with Wife Handing out with room mates
2030 Time with Wife Handing out with room mates
2100 Pomodoro: End of day review Handing out with room mates
2130 Winding down Pomodoro: End of day review
2200 SLEEP Winding down
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Tue Aug 21 16:33:04 UTC 2018

Like last week, the goal this week is 10 work pomodoros per day. I'd like to eventually meet an average of 12 work pomodoros per day, or 60 work pomodoros a week. I don't know how realistic that is, however. 10 should be quite doable. I managed 10 yesterday (bringing my rolling week count of pomodors to 44), and I think I should manage 10 today.

More than 10 should be very doable tomorrow, as there's no meetings and I plan to work from home.

Fridays also have a tendency to have no meetings (for me), so more than 10 should be doable then as well.

Thursday may be hard. There'll be an all hands, an interview lunch, and a quick meeting. It's not just the time that these things eat up, it's the distraction insertion that is sometimes hard to recover from.

In any case, it's time to bus to work.

Wed Aug 22 04:27:55 UTC 2018

End of day review:

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler DONE
  • Physical Inbox DONE
  • YNAB DONE
  • Email Inbox DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Trello DONE
  • JIRA SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Digitize hand-written notes N/A
  • Review last year NOT UNTIL THE 30TH
  • Review last month DONE THIS MORNING
  • Review last week DONE THIS MORNING
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day
    • What have you been doing at work? DONE
    • How's climbing going? DONE
    • How're personal projects going? DONE
    • Are there any insights you had today that are worth writing down? NO
    • What have you been reading? DONE
    • What have you been listening to? DONE
    • What have you been watching? DONE
Wed Aug 22 04:49:59 UTC

10 pomodoros at work today as planned. In fact, a lot today went according to plan. Need to start prioritizing time with wife, though. Haven't been playing Overwatch, so....

I guess I should start playing it again.

Anyways, the 10 pomodoros properly correlated with the goal for today: a working (but still in progress) PR for componentizing our drop-down menu (which we will eventually put everywhere). Right now, our drop down menu is kinda ad-hoc'd and differently implemented everywhere it exists. It makes my mentor and me sad, and it turns out work we need to do now for our project overlaps with this drop-down menu, so we're fixing some tech debt and consolidating code that should be shared.

Woo!

I will be skipping climbing tomorrow because the smoke persists. It should be safe to climb again Thursday, maybe, so I might just do Thursday/Saturday. We'll see.

I put in an hour of IGDA admin stuff. Got distracted by a bunch of stuff, and then had to get up to speed again. Didn't even send an email. Tomorrow should be better, though.

Reading today:

I got around to reading these via advice in the Pragmatic Programmer, have what you want to read ready when you feel like reading. So, instead of going to twitter, I had these articles (linked to me a long time ago by someone who knows me) at the ready and read some of them instead.

I'm happy with this result. I've even found an UP JAWBONE gifted to me some 2 years ago and will attempt to use it, I think.

....

On Saturday (setting due date in Trello).

Reading while lying in bed also worked really well. About as good a winding down exercise as watching YouTube, but with the consumption of content that I'm using to better myself.

I may switch back and forth between YouTube and reading. YouTube has its value, too.

I listened to some music on endless repeat today to drown out noise so I could focus on work:

Nothing watched today.

Time to go to bed.