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So, neglected timeblock over weekend for various reasons. Important events of the weekend:

• Saw Joker, enjoyed it
• Finished They Called Us Enemy,
• Got The Red Book from the library, left it at the office
• Processed my tickler a bit
• Started reading Hold Me Tight, good stuff in there

Made up for a week away from wife by hanging out with her the whole weekend.

I may be losing weight too fast? I thought I was around 209 still, but over the weekend one official weigh-in was 207.6. This morning, it was 208 even. A week ago I was 210.8. I'll have to keep going for another week to see, but I should avoid losing more that 2 pounds a week. Two pounds is also plenty for my arbitrary goals (want to be below 190 by Christmas, and 2 pounds a week would put me at 185by December 16th).

Once I'm below 200 I need to get my fat percentage ratio to have a solid weight plan.

Anyways, I should focus on work thinking now.

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Planning today is proving very valuable. I know there's a desire for a meeting with some peers I work with in SF, so that hour buffer is actually for that meeting as opposed to usual expected loss of efficiency.

I'm on a new graphic novel that I spent some time reading this morning as I waited for the SF office to open. It's called They Called Us Enemy, and its a graphic novel written by George Takei about his family's experience with the internment (aka concentration) camps of the Japanese during WWII. Still have about a fourth of the book to go.

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Did I mention reading Wage Slaves? I don't think I did. It's a good graphic novel, though. About a Polish woman moving to Sweden, dealing with silly bueracacy, and unionizing at her under-the-table job. It's good. Also, unions are good.

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I'm really getting into budgetting now, Stephan. Really playing the game of assigning jobs to dollars. Cutting back on automatic investment to betterment until I have 6 months of spending based on YNAB's "age of money". Right now I'm around 68 days. Was 72 days a week ago. In any case, got to get that up to 180 days. Once I'm there I'll go more aggressive with investing again. And I'm keeping my 401K savings rate to properly maximize by end of year.

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Put off planning yesterday until the day was over, but it was still a pretty structured day so I recreated it. I'm not a huge believer of backlogging anymore, but I'll make expections when it's not too time consuming.

209.2 pounds this morning! This was post-bathroom shenanigans, though, as the scale in SF is at the office. Still, quite promising. My goal by the end of the month is to be around 203 pounds or so. This would put me on track for 195 by Thanksgiving, roughly, and thus under 190 by Christmas, allowing for some ice cream during both events.

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Travelling to SF today.

I've gotten into a good habit of building checklists for travelling. Something that is proving very valuable. Not forgetting things and also the list needs be created once and can be reused every time I do the same trip.

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Rare weekend work day (don’t tell my boss). I have time to do 4 pomodoros before the wife wakes up. I really want everything functional, and maybe some tests, before Monday. That probably also means doing some work tomorrow. It's okay to do this as rarely as I'm doing it (I've done this once before since May, and that was just to deploy something, so not nearly the same thing).

Also, wanting to get back to a 40-pomodoro minimum per week, of which I'm 11 short at the start of this weekend. Now, I don't want to make a habit of catch-up on the weekend, but I don't want my low pomodoro count to become a habit either.

I'm about to enter one of those phases where I'm addicted to work like I'm addicted to a video game. I think it's a good time to be in that state.

My weight clocked in just below 210 after bathroom shenanigans. 210.6 first thing in the morning. Looks like I may just make my goal of being below 210 by the end of this month. It's within margin of error, at the very least. Today will be a cheat day, and Monday I may not weigh myself (will be in SF), so I may not get any closer to weighing below 210 this month.

The goal is to be below 200 by Thanksgiving. I'm tying each 10-pound milestone to being allowed some vegan ice cream. I would like a piece of pumpkin pie with some ice cream on it at Thanksgiving. And I'd like something similar for Christmas, though being below 190 by then may prove more difficult.

I'm not sure what my weight goal should be. Right now I have it as 185 in Fitbit and Cronometer. I may be willing to go lower. I think when I get below 200 I should measure my fat percentage and base my weight-loss goals on that.

Anyways, time to focus on work for a bit.

I got two pomodoros into the task at hand. Lost a potential pomodoro due to inefficiency, but that's okay. Also, gots to spend that planning pomodoro, it's always worth it. Now that the wife is up the rest of the day is hers.

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Really need to have working end-to-end thing today. Got 8 pomodoros again yesterday and will go for 9 today. 7 of those pomodoros need to be focused on the entity linking task.

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Finally got 8 pomodoros yesterday. I think I can go for 10 today. Though only 6 of those will be the priority task. Which is still really good, actually, mind you.

I have been practicing a technique a friend taught me for dream retention when waking up. Unfortunately, I'm not following the recording process of the technique. So I very vividly remember the dream, but then don't write it down or record it and thus it is lost. I have vague memories of a dream worth recording that I had in my head on waking up, but it's gone now.

I'll work up to being better about it.