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It's that time of year again! Now with a morning routine that I have to do, I might actually log each day at the beginning of the day. We'll see....

I probably don't need 2.5 hours to pack, but it's good to have extra.

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Had trouble falling asleep last night. Not sure why. Potentially the lack of a shower? Maybe the late nap, though. I mean, I often go to sleep 7.5 hours after waking from my nap and I finally fell asleep around that time yesterday. In any case, lost an hour of sleep, so I'm slightly sleep deprived. Not enough that it's noticeable, but that's a dangerous kind of sleep deprived, I think. Like being drunk but not thinking you are.

We'll see.

I managed to finish the task I wanted finished over the weekend. Good thing I did, took a surprising chunk of time. There'll be more of that work to do soon, but for now it's in a good place.

Anyways, time to go climbing.

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Didn't put in as much work yesterday as planned, both in what I accomplished and in pomodoros. This is fine, however, as it's the weekend. I'd like to finishing documenting the API today, though, as I may have trouble making time for it during normal working hours.

Anyways, time to go climbing.

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I really want the current project to be done at work, and I'm going on vacation on Wednesday. I want it done before then. Rather, I want it "open beta" before then. I'm not going on vacation because I need a break (got plenty of break when recovering from surgery). I just go to QUAKECON every year, and I'm not going to have time for work while there. In this sense, I am okay with doing some work this weekend to make sure I'm done by Tuesday.

I may well do work Wednesday morning, even.

Though, we'll see if I feel the same way when I come back from climbing.

Moving on, I'm really liking how my mornings are coming along. I've decided that I need to ingest my caffeine for the day as early as possible, such that it definitely doesn't affect my sleep that night, but also so that it minimally affects my naps. But I also don't want to rush thru my coffee. Chugging in general is probably not healthy, and I like to enjoy my coffee.

So, I sit and enjoy my coffee for about 20 minutes. Just sitting there, in the dark living room, letting my mind wander. Feeling where I am as a start to the day. It's pretty great. I do it before making a plan for the day, and as I know I'm about to head to my computer and fill out my timeblock, I abstractly think about what my day should be.

Again, it's pretty great.

Time to go climbing.

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No climb gym today. I'm pretty sore and I got a lot of work to do. The idea is to work up to everyday, and I think only Tuesday/Thursday and the weekend days are good for now. Gives me some extra hours at work whilst I'm in power mode. Sometime in August I'll want to transition to being at the climb gym everyday, however.

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Find I'm really rubbing my eyes when I wake up. Not good. Need to get some eye drops and take using my eye mask thingy seriously. Might want to add both to my morning routine.

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Alarm woke me up successfully today. Though I was awake quite a bit between 0400 and 0500. I'll be doing yoga again today. Hopefully I won't be as exhausted by the time I come home. Yesterday, I updated my browsing rule:

I can not browse entertainment/news sites until I have achieved 10 pomodoros and have done the day's cooking. Yesterday, I needed to cook some tamales. Quite a bit of work. Didn't want twitter tiring me out before I did any cooking. It worked well. I'll try to maintain the rule. On days where I don't have to cook, I'll try to prep something that we want to cook in the future.

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Morning pomodoros took longer than I thought so I got to gym too late for yoga. Just went with stretching and then climbing. Still a good workout. I'll try to get in some yoga next Tuesday, and maybe can even get away with it Wednesday depending on my flight time.

Put my organization pomodoro before my 1:1 with Alex so that I can do some 1:1 prep if necessary. Unsure.

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Morning's a little out of sync as I slept in for 20 minutes. Which is... disappointing. I remember waking up right before my watch alarm would go off, and deciding to continue the habit of getting out of bed as soon as it vibrates. But I don't remember it going off.... Meaning a case of turning it off in my sleep.

Unfortunate, was hoping to avoid this outcome. I guess if I wake up between 0400 and 0500 I should just wake up.

Yoga went well yesterday and I'm super sore today. I was also exhausted as I expected when I got home yesterday, so I'm not going to go to yoga today in the hopes of having energy to make tamales tonight. A lot of the prep work has been done, but there's still a lot of cooking to do.

I'll go to yoga again tomorrow, though. Maybe this time I'll climb before yoga to still get into work early, but that'll make the yoga extra difficult....

I have an alarm to take a nap around 1300. It went really well yesterday so I'll do it again today. Having my coffee right when I wake up is probably helping with the quality of the nap at 1300. And no more caffeine throughout the day probably helps with my sleep quality at night.

Things are falling into place. Maybe I'll do more thinking about where things are falling and where things still need to fall later. Right now I should be walking to work.

More Thinking

Ate a lot yesterday and not feeling the hunger this morning. Further, I drank coffee at home before coming in so I don't need to make coffee. Meaning: don't need to do my start of day routine.

Also, I had forgotten to block in an organization pomodoro. So that's what I'm doing instead. This bit of organization is really good for calibration and such. It puts me in the place I need to be to do the most impactful work. And then the rest of the day I can just focus on that work, which I'll start doing now.

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Messing with work schedule today to go to the climb gym in the morning. I'm also running some errands, so today's a special case. Important to pay attention to my energy levels today. If I'm so tired I can't work, I'm going to have to keep gym to weekend until I get stronger, probably. Maybe not, though. I'll think about it properly tomorrow, perhaps.

It may take several data samples to decide.

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I thought a bit about climbing today, but as I have a bunch of work today and how I'm pretty sore from the last two days, I'll recover today and see how I feel tomorrow. Thinking that I want to go tomorrow, and stay there for a while to also get some yoga in (0715 is when that starts). We'll see.

More Thinking

Adding those buffers into my time-blocking has really helped a lot. Really makes sticking to an overall plan of things to do much easier. The breathing room is quite nice.

In any case, I have 2.5 hours to get all the major new features done for the audit product I'm a part of making at work. It's just one more PR, which was done but now has merge conflicts that are actual conflicts and requires some reworking of code to keep both sets of functionality.

Though, that may be thinking to do in a more private channel. And when I'm on an Audit pomodoro.

In any case, if I get what I want done today, I'll definitely go climbing tomorrow morning. And also do some yoga. My old set of stretches aren't as effective as they used to be, I think. Perhaps they were never very effective. Yoga should teach me some new ones and also an instructor may fix some of my bad habits.

But, if I don't feel comfortable where I'm at, work-wise, then I'll put climbing off until Wednesday, but the plan will be the same on that day (yoga is at 0715 Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday). I will definitely go then, regardless of how I feel about work.

The goal is to go everyday in the long run (post QUAKECON).