Daily Entry: September 7th, 2018

Fri Sep 07 16:09:38 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical 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 DONE
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
Fri Sep 07 16:09:50 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • Yes.
  • 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?
    • 20 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • 0230: 5 minutes
    • 0330: 5 minutes
    • 0500: 5 minutes
    • 0630: 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.)
    • No
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 8 hours 50 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?
    • 1400: 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?
    • No
  • 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?
    • 2030

Dream:

I had a lot of abstract dreams throughout the night. Various work-related problems were being solved in my head, as far as I can remember it.

I also had a dream where I was Spiderman and Thanos was slowly torturing me into being his slave. There was a fight early on, but he had both the gauntlet and some silly cape like Dr. Strange's cape, I guess. I lost, he sends me on an errand. It ends with me being upset as he keeps killing people in front of me.

Kind of a messed up dream, to be honest.

Fri Sep 07 16:13:14 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0830: 211.4 lbs
  • @1830: 209.8 lbs
Fri Sep 07 16:22:54 UTC 2018

Protein @0830:

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

Breakfast @1000:

  • Plum: 100 (310)
  • White bean chips: 130 (440)
  • Hummus: 150 (590)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (690)
  • Rice cakes: 100 (790)

Lunch @1200:

  • Bagel: 230 (1020)
  • Avocado: 300 (1320)
  • Ripple pea milk: 100 (1420)
  • Plum: 100 (1520)
  • Banana: 100 (1620)
  • Apple: 100 (1720)

Protein @1500:

  • Pea protein: 100 (1820)
  • Banana: 100 (1920)
  • Blueberries: 100 (2020)

Dinner @2000:

  • Banana: 100 (2120)
  • Nut milk: 200 (2320)
  • Pasta and alfredo: 500 (2820)
  • Banana: 100 (2920)

Protein @2130:

  • Soy protein: 110 (3030)
  • Banana: 100 (3130)
  • Pistachios: 200 (3330)
Fri Sep 07 16:24:42 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 Run to work (18:54)
1000 Start of work routine
1030 Pomodoro: JIRA DG-255
1100 Pomodoro: JIRA DG-255
1130 Pomodoro: JIRA DG-255
1200 Lunch
1230 Pomodoro: JIRA DG-255
1300 Pomodoro: JIRA DG-255
1330 Pomodoro: JIRA DG-255
1400 NAP
1430 Pomodoro: JIRA DG-255
1500 Demo happy hour Pomodoro: JIRA DG-255
1530 Demo happy hour Pomodoro: JIRA DG-255
1600 Pomodoro: Work Inbox Pomodoro: JIRA DG-255
1630 Pomodoro: JIRA Pomodoro: Devbox Updates
1700 Pomodoro: JIRA Pomodoro: Work Inbox Ping pong
1730 Run home Pomodoro: Work Inbox
1800 Stretching/Shower Run home (19:26)
1830 Eating Shower
1900 Pomodoro: IGDA Play Show-and-Tell games Eating
1930 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin TV: YouTube
2000 Time with Wife Pomodoro: IGDA Play Show-and-Tell
2030 Time with Wife
2100 Pomodoro: End of day review
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Fri Sep 07 16:31:22 UTC 2018

Lots of interesting things in the past posts I'm reading. A year ago I was paying attention to my emotional state and maintaining the ability to listen and reflect while angry. Last month was the day before flying to QUAKECON and I was really kicking into MAX POWER mode. And last week I was noting that I need to give my personal project goals some actual time (aka pomodoros).

I'm still working on the personal pomodoro thing, but I keep reflecting on it and I think eventually I'll find the means of keeping the habit.

Sat Sep 08 04:40:25 UTC 2018

End of day review!

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical 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 DONE THIS MORNING
  • 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? DONE
    • What have you been reading?
    • What have you been listening to?
    • What have you been watching?
Sat Sep 08 05:03:09 UTC 2018

Got 12 pomodoros in at work. Pushed a thing while also updating the logging and test code. I immediately put that logging code to work with a caching-related bug, that I pushed a PR for and fixed nice and quick. Everything should be in place to focus on front-end work next week.

Also, got 40 pomodoros in 4 days, with an average of 10 per day (because Monday was a holiday). That's pretty sweet. Next week let's get 50.

I skipped climbing as I woke up late this morning. Plan on making up for it tomorrow.

I got in the 2 personal project pomodoros today. Further cleaning up IGDA stuff before diving into IGDA code. Also making sure to be social and keep tabs on various things. Email should be cleaned up tomorrow and I can start tackling the coder-related tasks after that.

It's an insight I've said before again and again, but I'm going to keep writing it down until it becomes a mantra: "Starting a pomodoro gives me energy." It's this magic thing wherein I severely limit acceptable distractions and focus on the task at hand. I could be better about what distractions I allow, and better about focusing on the task at hand, but as far as I can tell I'm moving in the right direction, so we good.

Reading today:

  • Twitter
    • Shaun Jen
    • H. Bomberguy
    • Digibro
    • The Davoo
  • Freethought Blogs | Pharyngula
  • Daylight Atheism

No listening today.

Watching:

Bed time.