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Thinking

Tried to do a simplified version of my morning routine to get back into the flow.

Tomorrow I'm going to have a lot of organizing to do. Today, though, I want to rush towards a finished classification setup within query-api.

Which is exactly what I'll be switching to right now.

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Thinking

Getting some quick work in at the airport. Tomorrow probably won't be a normal day as I'm going to be in bed pretty late. I'll sleep in as necessary and head to work shortly after waking up, I think.

....

We'll see what I do.

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Thinking

Pomodoro strats are not working in Indiana. Which is not to say they can't work, it's just that for the amount of time I'll be in Indiana, the practice needed to make the pomodoros work will not be worth it. Nor will that practice be retained by the time I return here.

Better to work at 50% power (or less) consistently while I'm here, and then transition to 100% power with my routines when I'm back in Seattle. Forcing the pomodoros, as I tried yesterday, led to a sudden incapability of doing work. Today, I shall practice flexibility.

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A Quick Recap

Hello! The last time I had a log entry was on Friday, November 22nd. I have been on vacation in Indiana (where I was funemployed for a bit).

Things worth noting:

• taught my nephew how to play Euchre
• kept up with YNAB and moved budget around to roll with the punches (still have some receipts to split, however)
• went climbing with my brother, my niece, and my nephew
• cooked some delicious vegan thanksgiving food
  • vegan mac and cheese
  • beyond beef wellington
  • vegan mashed potatoes
  • chickpea, rice, and vegetable stuffing
  • vegan gravy
  • vegan pumpkin pie
• played a lot of made-up games with nieces and nephews
• gave my aunt a cat shirt
• played on a zipline installed on the property by my cousin-in-law (cool dude)
• argued politics with my mom and dad (and am still reflecting on it)
• spent a lot of quality time with a lot of family
• played Golf Story

And I think that's really everything worth noting. Which is to say, if future me is curious what I did on a specific day that I haven't logged, anything of note is in the list above.

Though, also, some neat things that I didn't expect:

• my sleep schedule wanted to slide back to going to sleep at 2100 and waking up at 0430 and I had to fight it to fall asleep later in the day
• Maintained my nap habit naturally, even though I've been drinking way too much caffeine (I think)
• Had a pretty good stretching habit for a couple days but it was hard to maintain, got to reinvigorate the habit when I get back home
• Got a lot of natural exercise playing with nieces/nephews, but exercised way less than normal
• Kept up with counting calories, though as expected I overate most everyday (as in, ate enough to gain weight, not just stay even)
• Almost reignited the twitter habit yesterday, which is probably because I haven't been keeping up with my anki habit, I have managed to fight it back, but it's important to know that Twitter is there if I don't maintain the habits that replace it

Anyways, time to eat lunch and then focus on work.

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Timeblock

Thinking

Coffee after nap is great, but it does lead to a much more sudden crash when bedtime comes near. Around 2000 my brain becomes close to non-functional. Not a bad thing, I don't think, but something I need to plan around for. For instance, can't procrastinate the Japanese studying to end of day.

Another heavy meeting day means limited pomodoro time. That plus climbing day means not very many pomodoros today. I'll do the best with what I've got, though.

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Thinking

Only one buffer in today's timeblock.... That's a bit dangerous. Hopefully I can make it work. Going to need to avoid conversation during today's lunch.

Coffee-after-nap experiment going really well. And I have to say that I love coffee. Black, with non-dairy milk. With non-dairy creamer. Sweetened. Unsweetened. It's delicious. And I'm happy at the thought of it being okay to have it twice a day.

Side-Projects

This morning, I added some typescript stuff to the minimal react webapp.

What I want to do now is add tslint and prettier to enforce strict typing and formatting rules.

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Thinking

Experimented with caffeine after nap again yesterday. Will do so this whole week, I think. Last night is noisy, as I was cooking and on my feet until like 2030 or so. I got into bed around 2100, and my brain was swimming. Needed to put on some Capital in the 21st Century to wind down (have the audiobook of it).

That worked very well, though. Feel like I slept pretty well....

Anyways, we'll see how I feel after a week of doing this.

I need to walk to therapy now.

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Thinking

Yesterday, I once-again experimented with drinking caffeine after my nap. This time, not nearly as much caffeine. Did you know there's roughly 13.5 mg caffeine per gram of coffee beans, Stephan? The coffee I had after my nap on Saturday was made from 40 grams of beans. That was a lot of caffeine (about 500 mg of caffeine!). The coffee I had after nap yesterday was probably closer to 200 mg of caffeine. Much more reasonable. Fell asleep early last night at around 2030.

Post-nap caffeine may now become a habit.

Speaking of new habits. You may notice some "side-project" pomodoros planned for today. My friend's progress in learning programming makes me want to step up my game! I'm going to be doing a forced-limit setup. Projects will usually be scoped to a week before being abandoned. I think no longer than a month, as well. What can come along is any updates I keep in the base webapp skeleton.

Project Thinking

So, what I want to do in this next hour is:

• setup local minimal react babel app
• setup build so don't have to run webpack-dev-server on actual server

Local setup done.

Build command made.

Here's where the template lives

Okay... now I really should set up dev env so I'm using VSCode.

Ended up discussing ideas with friend. VSCode tonight, maybe.

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Thinking

Experimented with drinking caffeine after my nap yesterday and was not tired until an hour later than my bedtime. Almost certainly I'm going to crash later today, or worse, feel the effects of sleep deprivation during work tomorrow.