Daily Entry: July 1st, 2019

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Time (PDT) Intention Revision 1 Revision 2
0000 Gaming: Overwatch
0030 Winding down
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 SLEEP
0830 SLEEP
0900 SLEEP
0930 SLEEP
1000 SLEEP
1030 SLEEP
1100 Morning routine
1130 Walk to work
1200 Lunch with interviewee
1230 Lunch with interviewee
1300 Pomodoro: Organization Start of work routine
1330 Pomodoro: JIRA
1400 Pomodoro: JIRA
1430 Pomodoro: JIRA Pre-meditated break
1500 Pomodoro: JIRA
1530 Pomodoro: JIRA Ping pong
1600 Pomodoro: JIRA TV: YouTube
1630 Pomodoro: JIRA TV: YouTube
1700 Pomodoro: JIRA TV: YouTube
1730 Pomodoro: JIRA TV: YouTube
1800 Buffer TV: YouTube
1830 Buffer TV: YouTube
1900 Walk home Getting ready
1930 Cooking? Walk home
2000 Cooking?
2030 Pomodoro: Organization Gaming: Overwatch
2100 Gaming: Overwatch
2130 Gaming: Overwatch
2200 Gaming: Overwatch
2230 Gaming: Overwatch
2300 Gaming: Overwatch
2330 Gaming: Overwatch

Daily Entry: June 30th, 2019

Been a long time since I've actually made one of these on the weekend. The goal in the long run is to start my day with this again. Might want to update my setup, as currently it takes way too long to start up my computer and get to it.

I'm also doing a personal pomodoro for the first time since... March 3rd apparently.

Upgrading my computer is not going to be something I do for a while. I will follow my rule, and thus will need 30k in my computer index fund, else wait the 5 years since I built my recent computer last year. Which, basic arithmitic, would mean waiting until 2022. If I want to do it next year, then I need to double my savings so I can halve the wait time.

Daily Entry: June 25th, 2019

A lot has happened in the last ten days. Around the time of my 29th birthday (June 20th), I was mostly feeling pretty good, throat-wise. Still took sick days until last Friday.

On last Friday, my cousin came to Seattle for a visit. Over the weekend, we:

  • ate at Sizzle Pie
  • got some cinnamon buns at Cinnaholic
  • went to the muesuem of pop culture (MoPop)
  • rode the monorail
  • watched Toy Story 4
  • watched the first 21 episodes of season 3 of Attack on Titan

I have finished reading Blueprint for Revolution and also have read The Power of Habit. The book on habits should prove powerful going forward.

And now I'm listening to The Checklist Manifesto.

Not sure how useful it'll be. Right now it's just a lot of talking about how valuable checklists are, not the best way to use them. I'm already convinced on checklists. Though maybe I'm missing important context via listening and it'd be better to read it.

Anyways, time to time-block today.

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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 SLEEP
0830 SLEEP
0900 SLEEP
0930 SLEEP
1000 Morning routine
1030 Walking to work
1100 1:1 with Sergio
1130 Coffee
1200 Lunch
1230 Ping pong
1300 Organization
1330 Pomodoro: Organization
1400 Deploying PR Pomodoro: Programming
1430 Pomodoro: Programming Merge definition bug meeting
1500 Pomodoro: Programming Twitter
1530 Pomodoro: Programming Twitter
1600 Pomodoro: Programming
1630 Pomodoro: Programming
1700 Pomodoro: End of day review
1730 Walk home
1800 Stretching/shower
1830 Cooking
1900 Cooking
1930 Pomodoro: Organization
2000 Winding down
2030 Winding down
2100 SLEEP
2130 SLEEP
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP

Daily Entry: June 15th, 2019

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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 SLEEP
0830 SLEEP
0900 TV: YouTube
0930 TV: YouTube
1000 Breakfast
1030 Bleeding? Stopped
1100 Gaming: Hollow Knight
1130 Gaming: Hollow Knight
1200 Gaming: Hollow Knight
1230 Gaming: Hollow Knight
1300 Bus to theater
1330 Bus to theater
1400 Downtown errands
1430 Gaming: Cadence of Hyrule
1500 Movie: MiB International
1530 Movie: MiB International
1600 Movie: MiB International
1630 Movie: MiB International
1700 Movie: MiB International
1730 Downtown errands
1800 Bus home
1830 Snack
1900 Gaming: Cadence of Hyrule
1930 Reading: Blueprint for Revolution
2000 Logging BACKLOG ENDS
2030 UNPLANNED (fill in tomorrow?)
2100 UNPLANNED (fill in tomorrow?)
2130 UNPLANNED (fill in tomorrow?)
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP

I have acquired a new book from the library: Blueprint for Revolution. Have read a chapter so far. It's good.

I'm trying to quit Twitter again. Had a backslide a while back, and although my ingesting of it hasn't been too bad, it's slowly getting worse and I'd like to nip it in the bud.

Daily Entry: June 14th, 2019

Been a while.

Not going to backlog over two weeks of missing posts.

I'll give a general overview of what happened over the last couple weeks.

So, the first weekend of June my parents visited for a bit, and that Sunday I got another game of Spirit Island in with some friends (my old roomies).

Monday, the third, I got Invisalign and got a night fligt to SF for a short visit to the main office.

Tuesday, the fourth, I played more Spirit Island with some SF friends. I end up playing so late that I can't take public transportation back to my hotel, so I sleep on my friend's couch. Good times.

Wednesday, the fifth, the Lexicon team goes out for drinks and has some team bonding.

Thursday, the sixth, I get the last bit of work I'll get in for the next two weeks before I took a night flight home.

Over the week, I finished Faster than Normal. The book had some good advice and some good resources to check out. But it also just had some terrible, privildge-driven ableism. Some of it was just gross. At various points, the auther requests advice and feedback, but I don't know if he's willing to correct himself. Maybe I'll try it.

A summary of the troubling content, though:

1
ADHD is not a disability. You're not disabled, you're awesome.
1
Trigger warnings are bad and for people who don't want to face reality.

Friday, the seventh, was the day I got my tonsils removed. I went in at 9. Had my surgery at 11, and was home by 2. That was a week ago and I'm still recovering and in a fair amount of pain. Still on a mostly liquids diet. But the wife and I have mastered the art of the vitamix so I still have quite a bit of options.

I have also been eating a fair amount of ice cream. I'll try to get back to not eating sugar once my throat allows non-liquid foods.

Anyways, the last week has been lots of TV, a little bit of games, and some blur from the pain killers. I think my mind has recovered quite a bit.

There's a lot of stuff I'm hoping to start doing once the pain subsides. I'd like to get back into start of day and end of day routines, side projects, learning either to draw or to play an instrument. But I'll add one thing at a time and work hard to control scope.

For now, though, I'm just goint to let myself recover.

That's all for now.

Daily Entry: May 30th, 2019

Got a 5% raise at work today. That's pretty good.

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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 SLEEP
0830 SLEEP
0900 Laying in bed
0930 Morning routine
1000 Walk to work
1030 Start of work routine
1100 Pomodoro: Backlog
1130 Pomodoro: Organization BACKLOG ENDS
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Data management sync
1330 Data management sync
1400 Pomodoro: Data management Quick 1:1 with Alex
1430 Pomodoro: Data management
1500 Pomodoro: Data management
1530 Pomodoro: Data management
1600 Data management: Next 90 Days meeting
1630 Data management: Next 90 Days meeting
1700 Pomodoro: Data management
1730 Pomodoro: Data management
1800 Run home
1830 Stretching/shower
1900 UNPLANNED
1930 UNPLANNED
2000 UNPLANNED
2030 UNPLANNED
2100 UNPLANNED
2130 UNPLANNED
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP

Daily Entry: May 29th, 2019

Have a new mentee at work! And he's on the Lexicon team with me. Exciting.

Had devbox issues at work all day today, but got it squared away and pushed out a single, small PR. Tomorrow, let's go full MAX POWER.

Talked to my therapist about various things. She helped me decide on getting surgery ASAP. So I'm going to come home from SF next week early and get it done next Friday. Time to have consistently good sleep.

Daily Entry: May 28th, 2019

Back to work!

Returned Digital Minimalism and picked up Faster than Normal on therapist's recommendation.

Only past the foreword, but it'll be a good read I think.

I went and saw an ENT today about my mild apnea. I saw this ENT one time before, and apparently my tonsils have gone from a 2 out of 4 to a 3 out of 4. They're the probably cause of my apnea. And they maybe sometimes swell to 4 out of 4. Gots to get them removed. Which is a two week recovery time (aka no work). I'll do more thinking on this tomorrow.

Daily Entry: May 27th, 2019

Memorial day!

Spent most of the day being lazy. Felt good after a week of travelling around.

My brother spent the night in Seattle at the Mayflower Hotel. I hung out with my nephew and niece for about 4 hours. Finally finished a spirit island game.