Daily Entry: September 24th, 2018

Mon Sep 24 16:43:46 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
    • Email SKIPPED
  • YNAB SKIPPED
  • Calendar DONE
  • Actions
    • Trello SKIPPED
    • JIRA SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan SKIPPED
  • Fill timeblock SKIPPED
  • Slack DONE
  • Review last year SKIPPED
  • Review last month SKIPPED
  • Review last week SKIPPED
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
Mon Sep 24 16:44:02 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • I only remember that I had a dream
  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2400
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2400
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 45 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • 0700: 10 minutes
    • 0800: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0830
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0900
  • 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)
    • 7 hours 30 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?
    • 1430: 30 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?
    • @1530 30 mg caffeine (decaf coffee)
  • 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?
    • 2200
Tue Sep 25 04:45:26 UTC 2018

End of day review:

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
    • Email DONE
  • YNAB DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Actions
    • Trello DONE
    • JIRA DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Calorie Plan SKIPPED
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Review last year DONE
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday NEEDS TO BE BACKLOGGED
  • 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? SKIPPED
    • What have you been listening to? SKIPPED
    • What have you been watching? SKIPPED
Tue Sep 25 06:30:52 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 SLEEP
0830 Laying in bed
0900 Morning routine
0930 Pomodoro: Planning
1000 Data Management Standup
1030 Walk to work
1100 Walk to work
1130 Start of work routine
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Pomodoro: Lexicon Dashboard
1330 Pomodoro: Lexicon Dashboard
1400 Seattle Prodeng Standup
1430 NAP
1500 Pomodoro: JIRA
1530 1:1 with mentee
1600 Pomodoro: JIRA
1630 1:1 with mentor
1700 Pomodoro: JIRA
1730 Pomodoro: JIRA
1800 Pomodoro: JIRA
1830 Pomodoro: JIRA
1900 Pomodoro: JIRA
1930 Messing arround at work
2000 Run home (21:54)
2030 Dinner
2100 TV: YouTube
2130 Pomodoro: End of day review
2200 Computer stuffs
2230 Computer stuffs
2300 Pomodoro: End of day review
2330 Winding down
Tue Sep 25 06:39:49 UTC 2018

The first time-block of the day that belonged to my wife happened a year ago.

I plan on backloggind my missing past few days still, so I'll celebrate the anniversary of my first online timeblock then.

Tue Sep 25 06:44:38 UTC 2018

The minimum pomodoro rule continues to ensure I get a solid amount of work in. Between getting in late and various meetings, I needed to stay late to get my minimum. Getting my minimum, however, led to me finishing a task. Should be able to push it tomorrow, I think.

Skipped climbing today, as I was already late for work. Will try tomorrow maybe, but Wednesday definitely. Probably Wednesday, actually, as I want to finish backloggind missing days.

Personal projects return tomorrow. Have various time-sensitive IGDA things to deal with.

Tracking reading, listening, and watching will also continue tomorrow.

Daily Entry: September 23rd, 2018

Fri Sep 28 08:08:08 UTC 2018
  • Review last year DONE
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day DONE

Like yesterday, it's been too long and I didn't do enough stuff on this day. I went to get coffee, went to the co-op and Trader Joe's. And played a bunch of Sonic Mania on my Switch. Actually got some gaming in, woo!

A major insight of today: if work is feeling really hard, start a pomodoro and just start explaining to myself what I'm doing, why, and what I think the next steps are (and what alternative next steps there are).

Because of this "Do a pomodoro to gain energy (it happens!)" is a daily reminder in Wunderlist, now. Still need to work on rubber ducking my own habits, though.

Daily Entry: September 22nd, 2018

Thu Sep 27 06:45:56 UTC 2018
  • Review last year DONE
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day DONE

Been too long and I didn't do enough today to piece things together. I know I got one pomodoro in and that I took a much needed rest day. I woke up around 9... I think.

I started using wunderlist a month ago. Been liking it quite a bit.

Daily Entry: September 21st, 2018

Tue Sep 25 18:08:36 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Review last year DONE
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day
    • What have you been doing at work? DONE
    • How's climbing going? N/A
    • How're personal projects going? N/A
    • Are there any insights you had today that are worth writing down? DONE
    • What have you been reading? SKIPPED
    • What have you been listening to? SKIPPED
    • What have you been watching? SKIPPED
Tue Sep 25 18:09:15 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • No
  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 0300
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 0300
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 5 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • No
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0900
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0900
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Addicted to problem at work
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 6 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?
    • 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)
    • 6
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • N/A
Wed Sep 26 06:16:20 UTC 2018
Time (PDT) Intention Revision 1 Revision 2
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 Morning routine
0930 Walk to work
1000 Working
1030 Working
1100 Working
1130 Working
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Lunch
1330 Packing up
1400 NAP
1430 Train to airport
1500 Train to airport
1530 TSA
1600 Restaurant
1630 Movie on plane: Ready Player One
1700 Movie on plane: Ready Player One
1730 Movie on plane: Ready Player One
1800 Movie on plane: Ready Player One
1830 Movie on plane: Ready Player One
1900 Landing
1930 Bus home
2000 Hanging out
2030 Hanging out
2100 SLEEP
2130 SLEEP
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Wed Sep 26 06:22:43 UTC 2018

My first markdown timeblock was a year ago today. That's pretty crazy. It also hasn't changed that much. Maybe it's time to do a rethink.

Today was me crashing hard from a week that was too little sleep and too much work.

Daily Entry: September 20th, 2018

Sun Sep 23 02:39:05 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler
    • Physical SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
  • Inbox
    • Physical SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
    • Email SKIPPED
  • YNAB SKIPPED
  • Calendar SKIPPED
  • Actions
    • Trello SKIPPED
    • JIRA SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan SKIPPED
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Review last year N/A
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day
    • What have you been doing at work? DONE
    • How's climbing going? N/A
    • How're personal projects going? N/A
    • Are there any insights you had today that are worth writing down? DONE
    • What have you been reading? N/A
    • What have you been listening to? N/A
    • What have you been watching? N/A
Sun Sep 23 02:39:42 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • No
  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 0400
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 0400
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 5 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • No
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0900
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0900
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Addicted to problem at work
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 4 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?
    • 1900: 30 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?
    • @0950 150 mg caffeine (16 oz latte)
    • @1100 100 mg caffeine (diet coke)
    • @1300 30 mg caffeine (16 oz decaf latte)
  • 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?
    • N/A
Sun Sep 23 02:43:06 UTC 2018
Time (PDT) Intention Revision 1 Revision 2
0400 SLEEP
0430 SLEEP
0500 SLEEP
0530 SLEEP
0600 SLEEP
0630 SLEEP
0700 SLEEP
0730 SLEEP
0800 SLEEP
0830 SLEEP
0900 Morning routine
0930 Walk to work
1000 All hands
1030 All hands
1100 Working
1130 Working
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Coffee
1330 Sync meeting
1400 Working
1430 Working
1500 Working
1530 Working
1600 Working
1630 Working
1700 Working
1730 Working
1800 Working
1830 Dinner
1900 Dinner
1930 NAP
2000 Working
2030 Working
2100 Working
2130 Working
2200 Working
2230 Working
2300 Working
2330 Working
0000 Working
0030 Working
0100 Working
0130 Walk to airbnb
0200 Winding down
Mon Sep 24 16:40:53 UTC 2018

Most of today was cleaning up my PR. Was beating my head against the code for a bit until I forced a break with dinner and a nap. The nap really helped. Gots to take a step away and recharge.

Daily Entry: September 19th, 2018

Sun Sep 23 02:20:42 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler
    • Physical SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
  • Inbox
    • Physical SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
    • Email SKIPPED
  • YNAB SKIPPED
  • Calendar SKIPPED
  • Actions
    • Trello SKIPPED
    • JIRA SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan SKIPPED
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Review last year DONE
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day
    • What have you been doing at work? DONE
    • How's climbing going? N/A
    • How're personal projects going? N/A
    • Are there any insights you had today that are worth writing down? DONE
    • What have you been reading? SKIPPED
    • What have you been listening to? SKIPPED
    • What have you been watching? SKIPPED
Sun Sep 23 02:21:17 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • No.
  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 0100
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 0100
  • 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?
    • 20 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0900
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0900
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Messing with various habits while working in SF
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 30 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?
    • 1410: 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?
    • @100 mg caffeine around 1430 (diet coke)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 2
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • N/A
Sun Sep 23 02:25:27 UTC 2018
Time (PDT) Intention Revision 1 Revision 2
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 Morning routine
0930 Walk to work
1000 Start of work routine
1030 Working
1100 Working
1130 Working
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Working
1330 Working
1400 NAP
1430 Working
1500 Working
1530 Working
1600 Working
1630 Working
1700 Working
1730 Working
1800 Board games/backlog
1830 Board games/backlog
1900 Board games/backlog
1930 Board games/backlog
2000 Board games/backlog
2030 Working
2100 Working
2130 Working
2200 Working
2230 Working
2300 Working
2330 Working
0000 Working
0030 Working
0100 Working
0130 Working
0200 Working
0230 Working
0300 Walk to airbnb
0330 Winding down
Sun Sep 23 02:28:38 UTC 2018

I experimented with some caffeine today. It was interesting. Should definitely be a rare thing I do. I got in 15 pomodoros today but it felt less productive than that. There's definitely a point of diminishing returns that I should pinpoint, maybe.

At the same time, my work right now is dealing with legacy code and... well, that's a lot of beating one's head against the wall.

Daily Entry: September 18th, 2018

Thu Sep 20 10:14:43 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler
    • Physical SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
  • Inbox
    • Physical SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
    • Email SKIPPED
  • YNAB SKIPPED
  • Calendar SKIPPED
  • Actions
    • Trello SKIPPED
    • JIRA SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan SKIPPED
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Review last year DONE
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day
    • What have you been doing at work? DONE
    • How's climbing going? N/A
    • How're personal projects going? N/A
    • Are there any insights you had today that are worth writing down? NO
    • What have you been reading? SKIPPED
    • What have you been listening to? SKIPPED
    • What have you been watching? SKIPPED
Thu Sep 20 10:15:12 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • No
  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2200
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2300
  • 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?
    • 0700: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0830
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0900
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Sleeping in strange place
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 9 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?
    • 1400: 30 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)
    • 4
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • N/A
Thu Sep 20 10:22:31 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 SLEEP
0830 Laying in bed
0900 Walk to work
0930 Start of work meandering
1000 Pomodoro: JIRA
1030 Pomodoro: JIRA
1100 Pomodoro: JIRA
1130 Walk to offsite
1200 Lunch
1230 Offsite
1300 Offsite
1330 Offsite
1400 Offsite
1430 Offsite
1500 Offsite
1530 Offsite
1600 Offsite
1630 Offsite
1700 Happy hour
1730 Happy hour
1800 Happy hour
1830 Happy hour
1900 Happy hour
1930 Walk to work
2000 Pomodoro: JIRA
2030 Pomodoro: JIRA
2100 Pomodoro: JIRA
2130 Pomodoro: JIRA
2200 Pomodoro: JIRA
2230 Pomodoro: JIRA
2300 Pomodoro: JIRA
2330 Walk to airbnb
0000 Winding down
0030 Winding down
Thu Sep 20 10:29:27 UTC 2018

Offsite was good. Got me pumped, so I came back to the office and did some work.

Daily Entry: September 17th, 2018

Thu Sep 20 01:34:15 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler
    • Physical SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist DONE
    • Email DONE
  • Calorie Plan SKIPPED
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Review last year NOT UNTIL 18TH
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day
    • What have you been doing at work? SKIPPED
    • How's climbing going? N/A
    • How're personal projects going? N/A
    • Are there any insights you had today that are worth writing down? No
    • What have you been reading? SKIPPED
    • What have you been listening to? SKIPPED
    • What have you been watching? SKIPPED
Thu Sep 20 01:36:24 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • No.
  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2300
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2300
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 30 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • No
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0600
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0630
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Got a flight in the morning
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 6 hours 30 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?
    • 1430: 50 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)
    • 8
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • N/A
Thu Sep 20 01:47:34 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 Laying in bed
0630 Packing
0700 Lyft to airport
0730 Airport
0800 Airport
0830 Boarding
0900 Flight
0930 Flight
1000 Flight
1030 Flight
1100 Lyft to Mixpanel
1130 Setting up shop
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Pomodoro: JIRA
1330 Pomodoro: JIRA
1400 Seattle Prodeng Standup
1430 NAP
1500 NAP
1530 Unblocked work
1600 Unblocked work
1630 Unblocked work
1700 Unblocked work
1730 Unblocked work
1800 Unblocked work
1830 Unblocked work
1900 Unblocked work
1930 Walk to Flying Falafel
2000 Walk to airbnb
2030 Find building
2100 Eating
2130 Shower
2200 Winding down
2230 Winding down
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Thu Sep 20 10:08:26 UTC 2018

I am writing this late Wednesday night (or early Thursday morning depending on perspective). I got 8 pomodoros in "today". Not counting the solid 1.5 hours of work on the plane.

Daily Entry: September 16th, 2018

Sun Sep 16 23:59:30 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
    • Email DONE
  • YNAB DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Actions
    • Trello DONE
    • JIRA DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Calorie Plan SKIPPED
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Review last year NOT UNTIL 18TH
  • Review last month SKIPPED
  • Review last week SKIPPED
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
Mon Sep 17 00:00:02 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • No
  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 0330
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 0330
  • 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?
    • 0800: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 1100
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 1130
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Binged-watched Bojack Horseman
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 45 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?
    • No
  • 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?
    • @1300 30 mg caffeine (decaf soy latte)
  • 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?
    • 2150
Mon Sep 17 00:03:27 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @1100: 207.6 lbs
Mon Sep 17 01:35:20 UTC 2018
Time (PDT) Intention Revision 1 Revision 2
0000 TV: Bojack Horseman
0030 TV: Bojack Horseman
0100 TV: Bojack Horseman
0130 TV: Bojack Horseman
0200 TV: Bojack Horseman
0230 TV: Bojack Horseman
0300 TV: Bojack Horseman
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 Laying in bed
1130 Breakfast
1200 Shower
1230 Walk to coffee
1300 Coffee
1330 Coffee
1400 Walk home
1430 Reading: Film Crit Hulk
1500 Reading: Film Crit Hulk
1530 Reading: Film Crit Hulk
1600 Movie: mother!
1630 Movie: mother!
1700 Pomodoro: Processing
1730 Pomodoro: Processing
1800 Pomodoro: Processing
1830 Pomodoro: Processing
1900 Pomodoro Hanging out
1930 Pomodoro Typing
2000 Time with Wife Chatting
2030 Time with Wife Chatting
2100 Pomodoro: End of day review Hanging out
2130 Winding down Hanging out
2200 SLEEP Pomodoro: End of day review
2230 SLEEP Pomodoro: End of day review
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Mon Sep 17 01:51:09 UTC 2018

I have once again run into my "Call Think about Babuska, Grandparents, people who're gone".

I have two memories of father's father. Of Babuska's husband. Of my daduska.

One is on arriving at their home. I threw off my shoes and ran up the stairs. His smile greeted me as I reached the living room. He was sitting on the couch. I feel as though he was always wearing a suit.

The other is at Newark. Everyone was wearing suits there. Or dresses. It didn't really occur to me what was going on. There was a line. At the end of the line there he was. Eyes wide open, but vacant. Laying in a cushioned box. In his suit. This may have been my first understanding of death. There was a brief moment of shock and then I started weeping. My dad would later recall that it hit me suddenly.

I remember my babuska speak of his last moments. He had asked for a glass of water and by the time she came back he was awkwardly unconcious in the chair. He died of a stroke.

My dad brought up his dad a few months ago. "My dad died too soon. He would have been so happy to see the men you and your brother have become. I think he saw how his kids turned out and died of heartbreak."

I didn't really know him, but his legacy is certainly a part of my identity.

Mon Sep 17 05:09:39 UTC 2018

Pomodoro snapshot of the week.

Mon Sep 17 05:14:23 UTC 2018

End of day review:

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
    • Email DONE
  • YNAB DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Actions
    • Trello SKIPPED
    • JIRA SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan SKIPPED
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Review last year NOT UNTIL 18TH
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • 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?
Mon Sep 17 05:27:25 UTC 2018

I have regained Artisan Vegan Cheese from the library a month after having returned it... and right before a trip will take me away for 5 days of my 3 weeks I have the book. Right when I get back, I'll make some rejuvelac.

Mon Sep 17 05:44:26 UTC 2018

I have managed to avoid doing work-work the whole weekend. Which I believe was the right thing to do. As I've talked about before... somewhere, it is important to train myself to be good enough at doing things in the allotted time.

I will give an update on my status on slack tomorrow morning, make the appropriate goals and milestones for the week, and get things done.

My back was still hurting so I skipped out on climbing today as decided yesterday. I think it's good that I'll be taking a break from rigorous exercise this week.

Personal pomodoros this week have been amazing. After this pomodoro, I'll be at 40 for the week. That's my minimum work number! This happened, though, because instead of ambiguous goals, I had a game to get good at. But, these things aren't mutually exclusive. Work-work has its share of ambiguity, for sure. But I've made a game of it, regardless. I can do the same for personal work, for sure.

Which, when I get back from SF, Stephan, will be the goal.

I'm not sure if I mentioned this, but having a programmable keyboard is a game-changer. Macros wherever I want them! Windows has no keyboard shortcut for using the snipping tool, but with this keyboard and a bit of tinkering: Fn + P. It's something I set up while taking that pomodoro picture above. I may consider going even deeper with my automation (which I should've been doing anyway, but inspiration is always nice).

Lots of reading today. Might forget some things:

  • Film Crit Hulk's review of the 5th season of Bojack (he's got 9 episodes out so far)
  • Freethought Blogs | Pharyngula
  • Twitter (the usual suspects)
  • Various politics

Watched:

Daily Entry: September 15th, 2018

Sat Sep 15 16:27:27 UTC 2018
  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
    • Email DONE
  • YNAB DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Actions
    • Trello DONE
    • JIRA DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Calorie Plan WUNDERLIST LOG
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Review last year SKIPPED
  • Review last month SKIPPED
  • Review last week SKIPPED
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
Sat Sep 15 16:28:20 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • I only remember that I had a dream.
  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2400
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2400
  • How long did it take you to fall asleep?
    • 15 minutes
  • Did you wake up during the night? How often? How long were you awake total?
    • 0330: 10 minutes
    • 0600: 5 minutes
    • 0700: 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.)
    • Hurt my back
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 7 hours 25 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?
    • 1410: 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?
    • @1300 45 mg caffeine (decaf soy latte)
  • 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
Sat Sep 15 16:31:19 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • 209.6 lbs
Sat Sep 15 17:59:02 UTC 2018
Time (PDT) Intention Revision 1 Revision 2
0000 Winding down
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 Pomodoro: Processing
0900 Pomodoro: Processing
0930 Pomodoro: Processing
1000 Pomodoro: Processing
1030 Pomodoro: Planning
1100 Open house
1130 Open house Cooking
1200 Lunch
1230 Pomodoro: Weekly Review Coffee run
1300 Pomodoro: Weekly Review Coffee run
1330 Pomodoro: Work Weekly Review Reading
1400 NAP
1430 Pomodoro: JIRA Pomodoro: Weekly Review
1500 Pomodoro: JIRA Pomodoro: Weekly Review
1530 Pomodoro: JIRA Pomodoro: Typing
1600 Pomodoro: JIRA Mixpanel Play
1630 Cooking Pomodoro: Mixpanel Play
1700 Cooking Mixpanel Play
1730 Gaming Pomodoro: Mixpanel Play
1800 Gaming Browsing
1830 Gaming Pomodoro: Typing
1900 Pomodoro TV: YouTube
1930 Pomodoro TV: YouTube
2000 Time with Wife Cooking
2030 Time with Wife Eating
2100 Pomodoro: End of day review TV: Bojack Horseman
2130 Winding down TV: Bojack Horseman
2200 SLEEP Pomodoro: End of day review
2230 SLEEP Pomodoro: End of day review
2300 SLEEP TV: Bojack Horseman
2330 SLEEP TV: Bojack Horseman
Sat Sep 15 21:39:29 UTC 2018

Weekly review:

  • Last weekly review
  • Read the week's diary posts DONE
  • Review spending on YNAB DONE
  • Previous Calendar Dates DONE
  • Upcoming Calendar DONE
  • Review Various Online Lists
    • Amazon wishlist SKIPPED
    • Library SKIPPED
    • Move Spark File to Wunderlist MADE PROGRESS
  • Someday/Maybe
    • Email 42 REMAINING TO BE PROCESSED
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Review "Projects" (and Larger Outcome) Lists N/A
  • Review "Next Actions" Lists
    • Email DONE
  • Review "Waiting" Lists
    • Email SKIPPED
  • Empty Your Head SKIPPED
  • Be creative and courageous SKIPPED

In a week, I've gone from 13 WPM to about 30, I think. In a practice setting, I can get up to 50 sometimes. I think that's pretty good.

Sun Sep 16 05:00:05 UTC 2018

End of day review time!

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
    • Email DONE
  • YNAB DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Actions
    • Trello SKIPPED
    • JIRA SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Review last year NOT UNTIL 18TH
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • 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? NO
    • What have you been reading? DONE
    • What have you been listening to? DONE
    • What have you been watching? DONE
Sun Sep 16 05:26:01 UTC 2018

Snack @0900:

  • Banana: 100

Snack @1100:

  • Banana: 100 (200)

Brunch @1200:

  • Hashbrowns, tofu, and toast: 750 (950)

Coffee @1300:

  • Decaf soy latte: 200 (1150)

Snack @1600:

  • Hummus and crackers: 300 (1450)

Snack @1800:

  • Banana: 100 (1550)

Dinner @2000:

  • Banana pancakes: 1000 (2550)
  • Toast, tampeh, and hummus: 500 (3050)
Sun Sep 16 05:39:12 UTC 2018

My brain never particularly felt "broken", but having been at it a week and only now feeling somewhat functional.... I get the description.

I'm feeling confidant staying in it from now on, and less interested in being "keyboard bilingual".

I was thinking of doing work today, but I didn't. I did play around with Mixpanel the product, though. Which is good in its own way. I may devote some time to work tomorrow.

Back still complaining today. No climbing tomorrow. Will take a solid break during my week in SF.

I have hit sufficient speed to work in colemak. I still need to deliberately practice, as I'm still much slower than with QWERTY. But that will be outside of pomodoros. I think it is an excellent 5-minute break for between pomodoros.

Though maybe it'ii still get some pomodoros here and there. Need to start working on projects again, though.

Reading:

  • Twitter
    • H Bomberguy
    • Shaun Jen
    • Lindsay Ellis
    • Nate Silver
  • Love Joy Feminism
  • Freethought Blogs | Pharyngula
  • Daylight Atheism
  • Study Hacks

Listening:

Watching: