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It's weekly review day! The start of this is going to still be organization, but it'll be a deeper clean of email and stuff.

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I'm consistently waking up between 0430 and 0500. For accuracy purposes, I'll call that time "Waking up".

In about 5 minutes I'll be going to the climb gym. I want to prep my work diary in that time, so not too much thinking here today.

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I have upped my daily new anki cards to 30. It's a lot but I have lots of time throughout the day to pick at the cards throughout the day. At this rate, I'll be done with the core 2000 by the end of the year. Well, "done" in that I'll have processed all the new cards. Not "done" in the sense that a lot of them won't really be safely stored in my head yet.

But anyways, this means that during Christmas holiday, if I haven't already, I really need to start working towards gathering media that I can make into flashcards.

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I have decided against the 10k core deck. 2k core will get me a chunk of the way, from there I should start absorbing media and adding new cards as I come across new words. Well, I should start absorbing media ASAP, but by the end of the 2k core I should be absorbing media.

I really need to fix my better computer.... This budget computer is failing under very basic strain. It's not a problem with my current editor of choice, but IDEs are infamous for using up a lot of resources, and for a variety of reasons I'm considering moving over to VSCode (like I tried to do years ago).

The Missing Two Days

I slept poorly Friday night and so had a very exhausted Saturday. It was still the wife's day. We went out to eat at a vegan place called Broadfork Cafe. Pretty good, but a little expensive. Next time, I'll split something with the wife.

Yesterday I decided to have a pure rest day. Finished season 4 of Shera and watched a lot of YouTube. By the end of the day I was hating it. But my back is basically back to normal today. I think maybe it's still a bit stiff. In any case, I'm trying to make today my normal Sunday, what with it being a holiday.

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I'm 10% of the way thru the 2000 Core. Which I suppose means I'll have gone through all of it in 18 more weeks or so. I have found that there are 6k core and even 10k Core decks.

I may want to switch to that? At 20 a day, though, that'll be over a year before I'm done. Which is fine, actually. I don't need to finish this before I start making decks for individual media I want to consume (aka prototyping my app idea).

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Lots of meetings today.... Not going to get much work done. Literally no planned pomodoros at the office. Going to have to hope a bunch of those buffers become pomodoros. Though, even if I get every buffer to become one, and shorten lunch to a half-hour and add another one in there... that's 8 pomodoros. My self-imposed minimum.

"Practice flexibility".

What happens, happens, but I know what the day looks like now.

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Super late start to work today. Got to practice flexibility and work towards at least 6 pomodoros before heading home.

I knew the morning would be immediately walking to work, but I didn't consider what not planning the day would do. Planning the day has proven very valuable. So has starting the day with big-picture stuff before zooming into code.