Sun Apr 08 15:10:11 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

• What time did you get into bed last night?
  • 2230
• What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
  • 2230
• 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?
  • Yes. Once. 5 minutes.
• What time was your final awakening this morning?
  • 0700
• What time did you get out of bed?
  • 0705
• Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
  • Still a bit sick.
• What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
  • 7 hours 55 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?
  • Yes. Once. 1500. 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)
  • 6

Sun Apr 08 15:15:19 UTC 2018

Food tracking:

Calorie goal for day: 3000

• Cereal: 400
• Dates: 140 (540)
• Pineapple: 60 (600)
• Oatmeal: 800 (1400)
• Crackers: 490 (1890)
• Soup: 300 (2190)
• Banana: 100 (2290)
• Fries: 300 (2590)
• Falafels: 300 (2890)
• Falafel and fries: 700 (3590)
• Lime popsicle: 60 (3650)

Sun Apr 08 15:17:45 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	Momentary wake-up
0700	Morning routine
0730	Hanging with friend
0800	PLANNING
0830	Thinking ablog
0900	Thinking ablog
0930	Thinking ablog
1000	Thinking ablog	Breakfast
1030	Day belongs to wife
1100	Day belongs to wife
1130	Day belongs to wife
1200	Day belongs to wife
1230	Day belongs to wife
1300	IGDA Meeting
1330	IGDA Meeting
1400	Day belongs to wife
1430	Day belongs to wife
1500	NAP
1530	Day belongs to wife
1600	Day belongs to wife
1630	Day belongs to wife
1700	Day belongs to wife
1730	Day belongs to wife
1800	Day belongs to wife
1830	Day belongs to wife
1900	Day belongs to wife
1930	Day belongs to wife
2000	Day belongs to wife
2030	Day belongs to wife
2100	Day belongs to wife
2130	Day belongs to wife
2200	SLEEP	Day belongs to wife
2230	SLEEP
2300	SLEEP
2330	SLEEP

Sun Apr 08 15:30:03 UTC 2018

Ate some dates.

Sun Apr 08 15:32:30 UTC 2018

All right, I have 2 hours of "Thinking ablog" blocked out. Why? I think it's just a good time to have a long conversation with myself about what I want to do.

First off: sleep. Sleep is looking very promising. I'm excited.

Actually... let's start listening to some music on endless repeat before I do this. Ikenfell - Paint the Future.

Okay, that's good. So. Excited. So excited. Yes. I woke up at 7 a.m. today. Naturally. I'm maintaining an ability to rotate my sleep schedule backwards.

I've been wearing some blue-light blockers a few hours before I plan to go to sleep. I don't know exactly when I want to start wearing them, but 2 hours before seems like a good number right now. I also have f.lux on all my devices. Not sure if results are placebo or not. Doesn't matter, I'm getting the results I want. Only when things stop working does it matter.

Also, naps. I'm napping. But, like, not for hours at a time. I'm napping a normal amount. 20 or 30 minutes. It's magical. Caffeine has always been real inconsistent with me, but naps so far have done what caffeine at its best feels like.

So, goals. I'm going to have more energy and better scheduling capability if my sleep is maintainable. Yesterday... yesterday I watched a lot of YouTube. I did do some productive stuff (like taxes), but I could've done more.

(Side note. Life: noun. The state of always feeling like you could've done more.)

There's a lot of stuff I want to get good at or even be able to do:

• Machine learning
• drawing
• music (piano or violin)
• writing music
• Japanese
• working on side projects consistently
• understanding the stock market
• better financial intelligence

I have time. I don't have enough time to do everything. I need to pick. I think the smartest thing to work on first is "working on side projects consistently". Getting good at this will make my time more efficient, thus unlocking more ability to do the other things.

I was talking to a friend about treating side-projects like playing a game. "But playing a game is much easier," he said. Is it? "Yeah, the mental pathways are already laid for the game."

Mental pathways. Foundation. Yes. But one can lay down those pathways for working on side projects in general. And then it's like playing a game. So what foundation do I need to build? I need the habit of going to my side project when I'm looking for something to do. Ideally, my list of things to do in my spare time would be:

• side project
• games
• reading I know I want to do
• audio I know I want to listen to
• videos I know I want to watch
• work-work
• nothing
• browsing the internet aimlessly

I don't ever want to browse the Internet aimlessly. That I do currently is an addiction I need to eliminate.

Which brings me naturally, I think, to my site-blocking extension, Browsing Costs. I still use this extension. I think it could use a remake. I shouldn't make imaginary currency for just not going to the sites for some period of time. I should have to do stuff.

Sun Apr 08 16:11:17 UTC 2018

Got distracted watching the Ikenfell trailer on the Ikenfell site.

Sun Apr 08 16:15:46 UTC 2018

So, yeah, I want currency for what I do. Not what I don't do.

So let's start. Now.

Sun Apr 08 16:44:41 UTC 2018

Installing some stuff.

Ate some pineapple.

Sun Apr 08 17:24:14 UTC 2018

Had breakfast this half-hour.

Sun Apr 08 17:25:40 UTC 2018

Definitely having trouble focusing. Hmmmm....

Mon Apr 09 01:51:17 UTC 2018

Logging calories.

Sat Apr 07 15:50:28 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

• What time did you get into bed last night?
  • 2230
• What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
  • 2230
• 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?
  • Yes. Twice. 15 minutes.
• What time was your final awakening this morning?
  • 0815
• What time did you get out of bed?
  • 0815
• Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
  • Still have a cough.
• What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
  • 9 hours 15 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?
  • Yes. Once. 1530. 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)
  • 1

Sat Apr 07 15:51:45 UTC 2018

Food tracking:

Calorie goal for day: 2800

Morning foods (@0930) (Goal: 800)

Pad thai: 600 Dates: 140 (740)

Lunch-time foods (@1200) (Goal: 800) Banana: 100 (840)

Cereal: 300 (1140) Soup: 400 (1540) Crackers x 3: 210 (1750) Fries: 300 (2050) Popsicle: 60 (2110)

Cereal: 400 (2510)

Dinner-time foods (@1800) (Goal: 1200) Pasta: 300 (2810) Chips: 400 (3210)

Sat Apr 07 15:54:53 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	Morning routine
0830	PLANNING
0900	Organization	Grocery shopping
0930	Breakfast	Grocery shopping
1000	Taxes	Breakfast
1030	Taxes	TV: YouTube
1100	Taxes	Cleaning
1130	Taxes
1200	Lunch
1230	Lunch	Taxes
1300	IGDA Meeting	axes
1330	IGDA Meeting	axes
1400	IGDA Tasks	axes
1430	IGDA Tasks	TV: YouTube
1500	Personal Project Time	TV: YouTube
1530	Personal Project Time	NAP
1600	Personal Project Time	TV: YouTube
1630	Personal Project Time	Organization
1700	Cooking
1730	Cooking	Dinner
1800	Dinner	Gaming: Overwatch
1830	Gaming	TV: Good Game
1900	Gaming	TV: Good Game
1930	Gaming	TV: Good Game
2000	TV	TV: Good Game
2030	TV	Gaming: Overwatch
2100	TV	Gaming: Overwatch
2130	End of day routine
2200	SLEEP	TV: YouTube
2230	SLEEP	Attempting to sleep
2300	SLEEP
2330	SLEEP

Sat Apr 07 16:01:05 UTC 2018

I woke up on the same time on a weekend as on a normal day, Stephan. This is a rare occurance for me, and a good sign. I'm also slowly starting to fall asleep earlier, and I think with some morning zeitgeber I can start waking up earlier.

Anywho, Saturday is for personal productivity, and I need to organize my physical home space.

Sat Apr 07 16:15:34 UTC 2018

Changing the plan for my sick waifu.

Sat Apr 07 17:03:04 UTC 2018

Back. Now breakfast and cleaning the kitchen a bit.

Sat Apr 07 18:49:12 UTC 2018

Doing taxes, woo. Also gots work OpsLead stuff to deal with. Woo.

Forgot to list what I ate.

Sat Apr 07 19:55:48 UTC 2018

Taxes done except for some stuff I need to ask my waifu.

Ate a banana.

Sat Apr 07 21:36:09 UTC 2018

Taxes filed.

Ate cereal. Soup and crackers. More crackers. More crackers. Fries

Sat Apr 07 21:54:10 UTC 2018

Popsicles.

Sun Apr 08 00:18:17 UTC 2018

Cereal.

Sun Apr 08 00:18:31 UTC 2018

Watching a lot of YouTube videos. Too many YouTube videos. Adding YouTube and Twitter back to my premium sites.

This reminds me that I want to remake my site-blocker extension.

Sun Apr 08 03:28:25 UTC 2018

Watched a bunch of YouTube with my sick waifu.

Ate pasta, chips.

Fri Apr 06 16:50:03 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

• What time did you get into bed last night?
  • 2250
• What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
  • 2250
• 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?
  • Yes. 2 times. 1 hour 30 minutes.
• What time was your final awakening this morning?
  • 0800
• What time did you get out of bed?
  • 0815
• Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
  • Sick. Got wife sick. Lots of coughing. Had to put on headphones to drown out noise.
• What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
  • 8 hours 30 minutes
• Did you take any medication that might have affected your sleep? What? When?
  • Yes. Melatonin @2130

Evening sleep questions:

• Did you nap today? How many times? When? How long?
  • Yes. Once. 1640. 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?
  • 15 mg caffeine @0930 (Brew Dr. Kombuncha)
• Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
  • 2

Fri Apr 06 16:58:56 UTC 2018

Food tracking:

Calorie goal for day: 3000

Morning foods (@0930) Carrots and hummus: 170 Banana: 100 (270) Dr Brew's Kombucha: 60 (330) Cereal: 200 (530) Clementine: 35 (565)

Cliff bar: 270 (835) Chips and guac: 270 (1105) Chips: 220 (1325) Banana: 100 (1425) Popcorn: 140 (1565) Cookies: 170 (1735) Chips: 220 (1955) Apple chips: 60 (2015)

Crackers: 70 (2085) Pad thai: 300 (2385) Fries: 300 (2685) Dates: 140 (2925) Banana: 100 (3025)

Pineapple: 50 (3075)

Pad thai: 300 (3375)

Soup: 225 (3600)

Fri Apr 06 17:36:57 UTC 2018

Spending too much of my morning meandering. Let's plan the day.

Fri Apr 06 17:59:52 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	Trying to fall asleep
0430	Trying to fall asleep
0500	SLEEP
0530	SLEEP
0600	SLEEP
0630	SLEEP
0700	SLEEP
0730	SLEEP
0800	Morning routine
0830	Walk to work
0900	Walk to work
0930	Snacking
1000	Aimless meandering
1030	PLANNING
1100	Organization
1130	Migrating to GCP	Ping-pong
1200	Migrating to GCP	Fixing the thing
1230	Migrating to GCP	Fixing the thing
1300	Beer tasting
1330	Beer tasting	Fixing the thing
1400	Migrating to GCP	Fixing the thing
1430	Migrating to GCP	Fixing the thing
1500	Migrating to GCP	Fixing the thing
1530	Migrating to GCP	Fixing the thing
1600	NAP
1630	End of day review	Fixing the thing
1700	Walk home	Fixing the thing
1730	Walk home
1800	Cooking?	Walk home
1830	Cooking?	Grocery shopping
1900	Gaming: Overwatch	Cooking
1930	Gaming: Overwatch	Cooking
2000	Gaming: Overwatch	Cooking
2030	End of day routine	Cooking
2100	TV: YouTube	Cooking
2130	TV: YouTube	Cooking
2200	SLEEP	Shower
2230	SLEEP
2300	SLEEP
2330	SLEEP

Fri Apr 06 18:34:37 UTC 2018

Cliff builder's bar.

Chips and guac.

Fri Apr 06 19:06:31 UTC 2018

Feeling light-headed after some ping-pong.

Fri Apr 06 19:18:01 UTC 2018

Chips. Banana. Popcorn. Cookies.

Fri Apr 06 19:30:03 UTC 2018

Let's try to do the thing.

Fri Apr 06 21:02:23 UTC 2018

Chips.

Fri Apr 06 21:27:41 UTC 2018

Cereal.

Fri Apr 06 22:52:35 UTC 2018

Apple chips.

Sat Apr 07 01:57:17 UTC 2018

Food: Crackers. Pad thai. Fries. Dates. Banana.

Sat Apr 07 02:01:33 UTC 2018

Watching How to keep players engaged (without being evil) | Game Maker's Toolkit.

This is a topic that's exactly why I'm interested in game dev. I want to make work engaging (not addictive).

Sat Apr 07 02:50:14 UTC 2018

Food: pineapple.

Thu Apr 05 18:33:54 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

• What time did you get into bed last night?
  • 2310
• What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
  • 2310
• 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?
  • Yes. Once. 1 hour 10 minutes.
• What time was your final awakening this morning?
  • 0900
• What time did you get out of bed?
  • 0915
• Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
  • PagerDuty, an alert at 0400 woke me up
• What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
  • 8 hours 20 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?
  • 15 mg caffeine @1400 (Brew Dr. Kombuncha)
• Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
  • 6

Thu Apr 05 18:35:36 UTC 2018

Food tracking:

Calorie goal for day: 3000

Morning foods (@0930) Cereal: 400

Lunch-time foods (@1130) (Goal: 1000) Banana: 100 (500) Carrots and hummus: 170 (670) Cliff bar: 270 (940) Cookies: 170 (1110) Cereal: 300 (1410) Apple chips: 60 (1470) Seaweed: 20 (1490) Chips: 220 (1710) alo drink: 140 (1850) Dr Brew's Kombucha: 60 (1910) Nuts: 900 (2810)

Dinner-time foods (@1800) (No goal) Pasta: 600 (3410) Ice-cream: 720 (4130)

Thu Apr 05 20:49:13 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	Something's broken!
0430	Something's broken!
0500	SLEEP
0530	SLEEP
0600	SLEEP
0630	SLEEP
0700	SLEEP
0730	SLEEP
0800	SLEEP
0830	SLEEP
0900	Something's broken!
0930	Morning routine
1000	Walk to work
1030	Walk to work
1100	Address broken things
1130	Address broken things
1200	Address broken things
1230	Address broken things
1300	Address broken things
1330	Break	and PLANNING
1400	Address broken things
1430	Address broken things
1500	Address broken things	and All-Hands
1530	Address broken things	and All-Hands
1600	Misc buffer	Seattle Demo
1630	Misc buffer	Seattle Demo
1700	Misc buffer	Gathering thoughts
1730	Walk to pasta
1800	Pasta with friend
1830	Pasta with friend
1900	Pasta with friend
1930	Walk home	Grocery shopping
2000	Walk home
2030	TV: YouTube	Walk home
2100	TV: YouTube
2130	TV: YouTube
2200	SLEEP	TV: YouTube
2230	SLEEP	TV: YouTube
2300	SLEEP
2330	SLEEP

Thu Apr 05 21:09:00 UTC 2018

Sleep deprivation! Woo! I just finished a book that does a very good job telling you how horrible it is for you.

I think I "only" lost an hour's worth of good sleep. So it's not too bad, but the different between yesterday and today is night and day (pun?).

Thu Apr 05 21:10:00 UTC 2018

Trying my best to maintain some good habits without being too hard on myself.

Thu Apr 05 21:48:05 UTC 2018

Nuts mislabeled for calories, probably ate 10 times more than I meant to.

Fri Apr 06 04:20:58 UTC 2018

Watched The Alt-Right Playbook: Mainstreaming.

Ate pasta with friend as planned. Missed no pages (was worried I might). Ate 4 servings of cashew ice cream.

Fri Apr 06 04:36:20 UTC 2018

Watching Nameless 7 Part 5.

Which makes me want to rewatch the Turtle song.

Perhaps also a Eulogy in Song Form.

Manga

• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Manga I've decided to read when they finish (or the author dies):

• One Piece
• Berserk

Comics

• The Unbelievable Gwenpool (this comic has finished)

Politics

• Five Calls

Home Ownership

• Seattle pays for tree planting on property

Magic: The Gathering

• Phoenix Comics and Games Store in Seattle

Food

Cooking

• Texas Caviar vegan

Restaurants

• The Owlery (all vegan restaurant in Bloomington, IN)

Game Development

Game Ideas

• Bartending Wizard RPG

People

• EPX Club

Talks

• Internal Tools Talk (coming to GDC vault in May 2018)
  • Done by LBP team
• Experimental gameplay workshop at GDC
  • Lookup time-travel FPS

Game Development Events

• Nordic Game Jam
• A MAZE Gaming Conference

Reading

• Best Business Books

Halloween

Costumes

• Hat-party, college senior me
• Robot suit

Charity

• http://hrc.org

Climbing

• http://trainingforclimbing.com/

Wed Apr 04 16:35:40 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

• What time did you get into bed last night?
  • 2330
• What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
  • 2330
• 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?
  • Yes. Twice. 20 minutes.
• What time was your final awakening this morning?
  • 0750
• What time did you get out of bed?
  • 0750
• Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
  • Rearranged bedroom
• What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
  • 7 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?
  • Two attempts. Unsure if first was successful. 1330 for 30 minutes. 1515 for 30 minuts.
• 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 at 0930 (Teas' peach ginger black tea)
• Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
  • 4

Wed Apr 04 16:36:51 UTC 2018

Food tracking:

Calorie goal for day: 3000

Morning foods (@0930) Banana: 100 Carrots and hummus: 170 (270) Clementine: 35 (305) Teas' peach ginger black tea: 80 (385)

Lunch-time foods (@1200) (Goal: 500) 575 Black-bean chips: 170 (555) Avocado: 300 (855) Apple: 105 (960)

Dinner-time foods (@0700) (Goal: 2115) (Goal: 2040) Dates: 140 (1100) Cereal: 500 (1600) Fries: 400 (2000) Pad Thai: 1000 (3000)

I'm fudging numbers here, but not to meet the goal, just estimating what feels right. That it met the goal made me say, "Oh, hey, neat." I'm very satisfied now, food-wise, and should be done eating for the day.

Wed Apr 04 16:50:06 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	Morning routine
0830	Walk to work
0900	Walk to work	and Morning snack
0930	PLANNING
1000	Organization
1030	Query-API tests
1100	Query-API tests	OpsLead Stuff
1130	Query-API tests	OpsLead Stuff
1200	Lunch
1230	Lunch
1300	Query-API tests	Distracted meandering
1330	Query-API tests	NAP attempt
1400	Query-API tests	smoke test failures	and POST-MORTEM
1430	Query-API tests
1500	Social buffer	NAP attempt
1530	NAP buffer	Researching diary
1600	NAP buffer	Query-API tests
1630	End of day review
1700	Walk home
1730	Walk home
1800	Cooking
1830	Eating
1900	Gaming: Overwatch
1930	Gaming: Overwatch
2000	Gaming: Overwatch
2030	Action Items
2100	End of day routine
2130	TV: YouTube	Meeting Kirsten Zirngibl
2200	TV: YouTube	Meeting Kirsten Zirngibl
2230	SLEEP	TV: YouTube
2300	SLEEP	Attempting SLEEP
2330	SLEEP

Wed Apr 04 16:50:13 UTC 2018

Today, I am trying to plan my calories like I timeblock my day. I'd like to eat at specific times of day, and eat a certain amount. I like heavy-loading one meal a day, so my goal is light snacks with some protein during other meal times (as my doctor recommended).

Like my timeblock, this plan is dynamic and flexible to change.

Wed Apr 04 16:52:39 UTC 2018

I'm really excited about my sleep, Stephan. Though, I must be careful not to be too confident in its stability. This has happened several times before and each time I eventually fell back into my drift.

Though, this time feels different, because the other times I tried to maintain a schedule I drifted into, whereas this time I actually had the experience of my sleep schedule fixing itself. The main takeway being that it's actually possible. I'm not broken. Well, not always broken (again, it may not stay stable).

Thu Apr 05 03:26:24 UTC 2018

Today's action item: clear out capture notebook. Got lots of stuff in here. I'm thinking I can put these things into a spark file. Also, I can create a spark file.

I bought a sunrise alarm clock (should be here tomorrow). I'm maintaining the naps that occurred naturally in Indiana. I've installed f.lux on all my devices. I'm planning to get those blue-light-blocker glasses (or maybe a sleep mask).

I'm doing this to replicate as many of the variables I noticed whilst in Indiana. I napped in Indiana (first time I've really did normal less-than-an-hour naps). I slept in a place where the sunrise was unavoidable. I was always aware of the sun set (pretty common in Seattle, though). I used my electronic devices significantly less (thus seeing less blue light).

There are other things I'm almost certainly missing, but I'll start with these and see if I can stablize my schedule and maybe even trick it into falling asleep even earlier. My favorite time to wake up is 0400, after all (though that may be unrealistic for a variety of reasons).

Wed Apr 04 17:11:31 UTC 2018

Went ahead and bought both a sleep mask and blue-light-blocker glasses.

Now it is time to organize my email, checklists, goals, etc.

Wed Apr 04 17:28:49 UTC 2018

Only had time to organize email today (had a lot of personal email to sift through). I organized work email and work goals yesterday, though, so I'm mostly organized. Got to sift through personal goals and actions tomorrow, though, maybe.

I'm finding this strong desire to go to a time-wasting site. It's like a muscle-memory habit. Right now I have them all in my "Premium Sites", except YouTube.

Adding YouTube.

Okay, now it's proper deep-work time at my job. I'm on-call this week, so normally that means no doing "real" work. However, my assigned task was testing infrastructure, which falls in line on stuff to do during down-time on-call.

Wed Apr 04 17:35:57 UTC 2018

Setup phone to charge and play music. Now it's time to work on work, so switching to private diary.

Wed Apr 04 17:37:21 UTC 2018

Doing some neck stretches.

Wed Apr 04 17:39:15 UTC 2018

Taking off watch.

Wed Apr 04 17:44:54 UTC 2018

Bathroom break.

Wed Apr 04 17:47:06 UTC 2018

I have noticed a habit of mine a couple years ago. Once I eliminate most distractions, there are several "good habits" I take advantage of for further distractions. One specific example is drinking water. I will drink a lot of water after removing browsing, snacking, and sweet drinks. Usually I just allowed this, but it leads to a lot of wasted time, both sipping water and going to the bathroom.

So, I'll allow a refill of my glass every hour. That's plenty of water throughout the day, without it being a distraction I abuse.

Wed Apr 04 18:21:16 UTC 2018

Had some alerts to deal with. Well, have. I'm blocked on what to do with the priority item, though.

Wed Apr 04 18:34:19 UTC 2018

Moar water!

Wed Apr 04 18:53:44 UTC 2018

I'm feeling extremely mentally fatigued. Good timing, I think. Time for lunch break.

Updating timeblock.

Wed Apr 04 19:21:46 UTC 2018

Woah. Those black bean chips and that avocado basically hit my quota for "lunch". Good to know.

Wed Apr 04 19:27:12 UTC 2018

Scheduling doctor appointments. Calling sleep doctor first. Scheduling appointment and asking for ENT recommendation.

Doctor Yang was ENT recommendation. (206) 215-1770. I think that number is fine to have on public diary, probably public.

Left a message. They'll call back "within 24-hours".

Wed Apr 04 19:40:31 UTC 2018

Did a five-minute twitter scroll.

Wed Apr 04 20:09:37 UTC 2018

Hung out with peers during lunch, ate an apple.

Wed Apr 04 20:12:52 UTC 2018

Back to work.

Wed Apr 04 20:22:55 UTC 2018

Distracted myself with various tasks I've been putting off. I think I may try taking a nap. It's a bit early, so we'll see if I succeed.

Wed Apr 04 21:27:07 UTC 2018

Don't think I napped, but I do feel a bit rested. I stopped at 1400 PDT and have been doing POST-MORTEM OpsLead stuff.

I think I'll try napping again at 1500 PDT.

Wed Apr 04 22:42:11 UTC 2018

Might not nap today. Though maybe I did and it was super light earlier? Not sure. Resting on the couch might've been enough rest to stop another attempt. Or I just tried too early today (yesterday I napped at 1600). I thought I'd need to do it earlier as I woke up a bit earlier. I also mentally tired myself out much sooner.

Tomorrow I'll try at 1600 as per normal, I think.

Wed Apr 04 22:48:39 UTC 2018

Going to actually look at my logs and get a feel for when I nap relative to shen I wake-up.

Wed Apr 04 22:51:59 UTC 2018

Looking at it, my good naps are about 8 hours separated from waking up. Meaning about now would actualy be the time to nap. I'll keep that in mind tomorrow and regardless of fatigue try to nap at the 8-hour wake mark.

Also, this marks the first time I can think of wherein I looked at my pattern of behavior via my timeblock towards some sort of future plan. Woo!

Wed Apr 04 23:03:29 UTC 2018

Read some FiveThirtyEight before getting back to work.

Thu Apr 05 00:00:27 UTC 2018

Time to head home.

Thu Apr 05 02:05:11 UTC 2018

Doing a surprisingly good job keeping to schedule. Time for some Overwatch.

Thu Apr 05 05:24:43 UTC 2018

Met a wicked sweet artist named Kirsten Zirngibl. She's done various MTG art. Bought a matt off her before she brings that swag to sell at the Magic tournament happening this week in Seattle.

Tue Apr 03 17:34:00 UTC 2018

Going to add calories to these posts. After doing taxes this weekend, I think I'll devote some time to creating a log area of my site, and then only put thinking in this diary.

Tue Apr 03 17:35:05 UTC 2018

Food tracking:

Banana: 100 Carrots and hummus: 19 + 150 = 169 (269) Teas' peach ginger black tea: 80 (349) Cereal: 300 (649) Cookies: 170 (819) Apple chips: 60 (879) Seaweed: 20 (899) Bagel and avocado: 300 (1199) Popcorn: 130 (1329) Cliff Builder's Bar: 270 (1599) Oatmeal banana smoothie: 600 (2199) Dates: 140 (2339) Fig bars: 110 (2449) Sandwich and fries: 800 (3249)

Tue Apr 03 17:39:27 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

• What time did you get into bed last night?
  • 2330
• What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
  • 2330
• 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?
  • Yes. Once. 20 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.)
  • PagerDuty right when I was getting ready for sleep
• What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
  • 8 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?
  • Yes. Once. 1600. 25 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 at 1000 (Teas' peach ginger black tea)
• Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
  • 2

Tue Apr 03 18:01:48 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	Momentary wake-up
0630	SLEEP
0700	SLEEP
0730	SLEEP
0800	Laying in bed
0830	Morning routine
0900	Walk to work
0930	Walk to work
1000	Starting work routine
1030	PLANNING
1100	OpsLead Exploration
1130	OpsLead Exploration
1200	Lunch
1230	Lunch
1300	OpsLead Exploration
1330	OpsLead Exploration
1400	OpsLead Exploration	TV: YouTube
1430	SST Planning Weekly
1500	Walk home
1530	Walk home
1600	NAP
1630	PagerDuty work	Cooking prep
1700	IGDA Meeting	Reading
1730	IGDA Meeting	Rearrange bedroom
1800	Cooking?	Yes
1830	Cooking?	Tickler
1900	Walk to Livio's
1930	Steven Universe
2000	Steven Universe
2030	Walk home	Steven Universe
2100	End of day routine	Cooking
2130	TV: YouTube	Cooking	and Expensify
2200	TV: YouTube	and Cooking	and End of Day Routine
2230	SLEEP	Shower
2300	SLEEP	TV: YouTube
2330	SLEEP

Tue Apr 03 21:32:52 UTC 2018

My YouTube watching today is: Charlottesville: the True Alt-Right.

Wed Apr 04 00:16:21 UTC 2018

Reading: Replace Your To-Do List With Interstitial Journaling To Increase Productivity.

Interestingly enough, I've already basically decided to do this. Though, I don't put everything here. I put some stuff in my .plan file on my work computer. Keep work stuff at work (and also avoid making things public that I'm not allowed to make public).

Wed Apr 04 00:30:22 UTC 2018

Finished reading that article just in time for some room mate communication.

I think now's the time to go grocery shopping at the local bulk foods store.

Wed Apr 04 00:51:40 UTC 2018

Rearranged bedroom instead. Now going to make a banana oatmeal snack and make plans to head to friend's house.

Wed Apr 04 02:06:04 UTC 2018

Ate banana oatmeal and some dates. Did tickler items for day. Leaving to friend's house now.

Wed Apr 04 03:27:11 UTC 2018

Watching Steven Universe.

Wed Apr 04 04:56:00 UTC 2018

Cooking fries. Expensed my SF trip. Watching The History of Sci Fi - H.G. Wells - Extra Sci Fi - #2.

Wed Apr 04 06:06:52 UTC 2018

Watching some Fitzyhere (Overwatch streamer).

Wed Apr 04 06:16:35 UTC 2018

This is where I would jot down some thoughts. But I'm tired. Also, I did little mini things throughout the day. I'd like to be more consistent about that in future. Lots of changes to usual today. Exciting.

Now sleep.

Mon Apr 02 17:12:56 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

• What time did you get into bed last night?
  • 2430
• What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
  • 2430
• 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?
  • Yes. A couple time. 20 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.)
  • Back home after 17 days away. Have developed a cough
• What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
  • 7 hours
• Did you take any medication that might have affected your sleep? What? When?
  • No

Mon Apr 02 17:23:54 UTC 2018

Time (PDT)	Intention	Revision 1	Revision 2
0000	BACKLOG
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	Walk to work
0930	Snack
1000	PLANNING
1030	Organization
1100	Walk to lunch
1130	Walk to lunch
1200	Lunch
1230	Lunch
1300	Walk to work
1330	Walk to work
1400	Seattle Prodeng Standup
1430	OpsLead Transition
1500	1:1 with Alex
1530	NAP buffer	Reviewing Wavefront
1600	NAP buffer	NAP
1630	OpsLead Learning
1700	Walk home	Ping pong
1730	Walk home
1800	Grocery planning	Walk home
1830	Grocery shopping
1900	Grocery shopping
1930	Cooking: Something Easy
2000	Eating
2030	Gaming: Overwatch
2100	Gaming: Overwatch
2130	End of day routine
2200	TV: YouTube	PagerDuty
2230	TV: YouTube	PagerDuty
2300	SLEEP	PagerDuty
2330	SLEEP

Mon Apr 02 17:28:00 UTC 2018

New tag in today's post: "thinking". I'm trying to have something to say in every daily entry now. Add a proper human touch. Get a dialog going with my past/future selves, Stephan.

Though doing so just reminds me of someone who told me all these daily questions and timeblocks create a lot of visual noise for anyone who just reads these parts. I'll probably reinstate goals and goal-tracking in the day-to-day (because I really like doing that). Splitting this diary into a log with all the templated stuff and, well, an actual diary may be one of those goals.

One of the first goals, however, will be the recreation of checklists for morning and evening routines and attempts at making those checklists a proper habit.

Tue Apr 03 04:59:33 UTC 2018

Did my end of day routine ad-hoc today. Lots of stuff to organize before I can make a concrete checklist that is containable within a half-hour. I "caught up" on my tickler today. Which is to say I took the last month and a half of ignored tickler and put it in my inbox, and then I divided up the items by priority over the next few days (or threw items I can ignore into next month). I know that if I'm regular about tickler, I can maintain a healthy inbox of things to do. So I'm hoping to catch up slowly, but also tackle priority things first.

And by priority, I mean taxes. This is the longest I've waited to do taxes since I've done them. (ETA: Meaning this is the longest I've waited to do taxes in my history of doing taxes.)

Tue Apr 03 17:19:55 UTC 2018

Evening sleep questions:

• Did you nap today? How many times? When? How long?
  • Yes. Nap from 1600 to 1630
• 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 at 1000 (Teas' peach ginger black tea, 500 mL).
• Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
  • 2

Mon Apr 02 07:16:53 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

• What time did you get into bed last night?
  • 2400 EDT
• What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
  • 2400 EDT
• 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?
  • No, not really
• What time was your final awakening this morning?
  • 0900 EDT
• What time did you get out of bed?
  • 0930 EDT
• Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
  • Easter Sunday, kids looking for eggs near me
• 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

Mon Apr 02 07:18:03 UTC 2018

Evening sleep questions:

• Did you nap today? How many times? When? How long?
  • Yes. Once. 2030 CDT. 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?
  • Yes. Caffeine through 1600 EDT.
• Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
  • 3

Mon Apr 02 07:18:41 UTC 2018

Time (EDT)	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 chair
0930	Hanging out
1000	Hanging out
1030	Hanging out
1100	Hanging out
1130	Hanging out
1200	Hanging out
1230	Hanging out
1300	Hanging out
1330	Hanging out
1400	Hanging out
1430	Hanging out
1500	Hanging out
1530	Hanging out
1600	Travel to airport
1630	TSA
1700	At airport
1730	At airport
1800	Boarding
1830	Fly to Chicago ORD
Time (CDT)	Intention	Revision 1	Revision 2
1800	Layover in Chicago
1830	Layover in Chicago
1900	Boarding
1930	Fly to Seattle
2000	Fly to Seattle
2030	Fly to Seattle
2100	Fly to Seattle
2130	Fly to Seattle
2200	Fly to Seattle
2230	Fly to Seattle
2300	Fly to Seattle
2330	Fly to Seattle
Time (PDT)	Intention	Revision 1	Revision 2
2200	Fly to Seattle
2230	Landing
2300	Travel home
2330	Travel home
0000	BACKLOG
0030	SLEEP

Mon Apr 02 07:21:39 UTC 2018

Back in Seattle. Been 17 days since I was home, Stephan. Quite an adventure, though. Whilst on the plane I watched some YouTube vidoes I had downloaded via youtube-dl. A neat little tool that I feel 100% right using considering YouTube Red has download as a feature on mobile but I want to watch it on a laptop with a bigger screen (oh, also, trying out YouTube Red).

Once I ran out of downloaded content, I continued to listen to Why We Sleep on the audiobook I have on download from the library. The paper version is on hold for me at the library, as well. I'm considering trying out listening whilst reading.

In any case, I'm up way later than my current clock thinks I should be. And I want to try my best to maintain this schedule that I naturally fell into in Indiana. So time to sleep.

Sat Mar 31 22:10:13 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

• What time did you get into bed last night?
  • 0130
• What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
  • 0130
• 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?
  • 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.)
  • Weird beds and still a bit sick
• What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
  • 7 hours 20 minutes
• Did you take any medication that might have affected your sleep? What? When?
  • No

Sat Mar 31 22:12:34 UTC 2018

Evening sleep questions:

• Did you nap today? How many times? When? How long?
  • Yes. Once. 1730. 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?
  • Yes. Caffeine right before napping. Around 1630.
• Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
  • 2

Sat Mar 31 22:12:39 UTC 2018

Time (PDT)	Intention	Revision 1	Revision 2
0000	BACKLOG
0030	Computer
0100	Computer
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	Hanging out
0930	Hanging out
1000	Hanging out
1030	Hanging out
1100	Hanging out
1130	Hanging out
1200	Hanging out
1230	Hanging out
1300	Hanging out
1330	Hanging out
1400	Hanging out
1430	Hanging out
1500	Hanging out
1530	Hanging out
1600	Short escape
1630	Short escape
1700	Hanging out
1730	NAP
1800	BACKLOG	PLANNING
1830	Hanging out
1900	Hanging out
1930	Hanging out
2000	Hanging out
2030	Hanging out
2100	Hanging out
2130	Hanging out
2200	Hanging out
2230	Hanging out
2300	Computer
2330	Computer

Sat Mar 31 22:15:36 UTC 2018

I love napping.

Oh, I had a surreal dream last night. I dreamt that vacation was over and I flew home. But then for some reason I was working in San Francisco. I flew home again and went to bed, and then woke up in SF again. I was extremely confused and let everyone know that somehow I woke up in SF even though I flew back to Seattle.