Daily Entry: August 27th, 2018

Mon Aug 27 15:09:34 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical DONE
    • Hand-written notes N/A
    • Wunderlist DONE
    • Email DONE
  • YNAB DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Actions
    • Trello DONE
    • JIRA DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Review last year NOT UNTIL THE 30TH
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
Mon Aug 27 15:09:44 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • No
  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2330
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2400
  • 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?
    • 0200: 30 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0745
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0745
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Wife having OCD issues
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 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?
    • 1430: 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?
    • @1830 one small glass of wine
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 3
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 2100
Mon Aug 27 15:11:10 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0750: 208.6 lbs
  • @2045: 210.2 lbs
Mon Aug 27 15:21:21 UTC 2018

Protein @0800:

  • Soy protein: 110
  • Banana: 100 (210)

Breakfast @1000:

  • White bean chips: 130 (340)
  • Carrots: 20 (360)
  • Hummus: 150 (510)
  • Mint tea: 5 (515)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (615)

Lunch @1200:

  • Bagel: 230 (845)
  • Wholly guacamole: 100 (945)
  • White bean chips: 130 (1075)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (1175)

Protein @1500:

  • Pea protein: 100 (1275)
  • Banana: 100 (1375)
  • Blackberries: 25 (1400)

JLack Farewell happy hour @1930:

  • Bread and olive oil: 500 (1900)
  • Wine: 100 (2000)

Snack @2100:

  • Chips: 300 (2300)

Protein @2200:

  • Soy protein: 110 (2410)
  • Banana: 100 (2510)
Mon Aug 27 15:23:44 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 Pomodoro: Planning
0830 Climb gym
0900 Climb gym
0930 Run to work (18:00)
1000 Start of work routine
1030 Pomodoro: JIRA Mentee Discussion
1100 Pomodoro: JIRA
1130 Farewell Lunch JLack
1200 Farewell Lunch JLack
1230 Farewell Lunch JLack
1300 Pomodoro: Data Management Meeting
1330 Pomodoro: Data Management Meeting
1400 Seattle Prodeng Standup
1430 NAP
1500 Pomodoro: JIRA
1530 Alex/Rory Sync
1600 Pomodoro: JIRA
1630 Pomodoro: JIRA
1700 Pomodoro: JIRA
1730 Pomodoro: JIRA
1800 Run home Farewell happy hour
1830 Stretching/Shower Farewell happy hour
1900 Cooking Run home Farewell happy hour
1930 Eating Stretching/Shower Farewell happy hour
2000 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin Cooking Run home (19:00)
2030 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin Eating Shower
2100 Pomodoro: End of day review Hanging out
2130 Winding down Pomodoro: End of day review
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Mon Aug 27 15:30:37 UTC 2018

You may notice that sometimes I pomodoroize meetings and sometimes I don't. When I feel I can be an active participant in a meeting, it's a pomodoro, if I can't, it's not. Non-active-participant meetings can be valuable (e.g. all-hands and the seattle prodeng standup), but they aren't deep work, and that's what pomodoros are a proxy for. But active meetings by me can very much be deep work, so I try to have a pomodoro during those.

Tue Aug 28 04:39:58 UTC 2018

End of day review!

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical DONE
    • Hand-written notes N/A
    • Wunderlist DONE
    • Email DONE
  • YNAB DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Actions
    • Trello DONE
    • JIRA DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Review last year NOT UNTIL THE 30TH
  • Review last month DONE THIS MORNING
  • Review last week DONE THIS MORNING
  • Review yesterday DONE THIS MORNING
  • 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? DONE
    • What have you been reading? DONE
    • What have you been listening to? DONE
    • What have you been watching? DONE
Tue Aug 28 05:00:19 UTC 2018

Work was hectic and long today. Lots of meetings and events, and I have pomodoro goals I want to make. My pomodoros for today ended up at 9. A solid number. I have several PRs in the oven waiting on feedback (one baked and deployed). Though some of that will need to be on hold tomorrow whilst I track down API errors a customer is seeing. I'm not sure what's causing it. It's possible some middleware or permissions decorator is failing before my code is even reached. That'll be the main priority tomorrow.

Climbing went pretty solid today. I decided to focus on the green cave problem that I made slight progress on last time. It's setup such that I can "cheat" and restart where I fail until significantly far into the problem. So I made sure I could get to a point from the beginning, and then I practiced going futher from there. I managed to figure out how to get all the way to a part that I can't just cheat start at.

It's possible I may be able to finish this challenge Wednesday. It's also possible the challenge will disappear before I finish it. Fun times.

No time for personal projects today. That's okay, that'll happen sometimes. I also have a scoreboard for personal pomodoros, and so I have goals to meet there, too (do as well as last week or better). I think I'll do better this week than last week, and hopefully the weekend will be solid this week, as well.

Today was the feedback day from the shock to my system. Which is a really abstract way to say that my probation period ended at work. Everything's going very well! There's some stuff for me to be working on, but I've been vocal and aware of those things, and I plan to make progress.

However, this process has helped me realize that my self-reflection has plenty of blind spots, and even skewed priorities. This is where getting other people's opinions and perspective helps me a lot.

But when I don't have that luxury, I can rubber-duck debug my own bad behavior.

Which is something I'll work on going forward. I think this Saturday, for example, if I'm having trouble starting pomodoros, I'll start a pomodoro devoted to chatting at myself in this diary about what I'm trying to do and why I think it isn't working.

No reading today, but I'll read some the Pragmatic Programmer before bed, I think.

No listening today.

Watching since yesterday:

Tue Aug 28 05:13:27 UTC 2018

Time for bed!