Timeblock

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.

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.

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

Timeblock

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.

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.

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.

Drove back to Seattle today. Got some IKEA furniture while we still had car.

Over the week vacation I finished reading Digital Minimalism. It was a good read. I'm trying to rethink my relationship with various online tools again (I have fallen back into twitter).

Was a quality vacation.

Lots of hanging out with family and going out to eat today. Went and saw Detective Pikachu. It was pretty bad. The effects were cool though.

Almost got to finish a game of Spirit Island.

Found out my friend got a promotion at FedEx.

Today my sister got married. I was a groomsman. There was lots of dancing. Failed once again to play any Spirit Island after setting it up.

Wedding rehearsal today.

Put a stop to the spreading of evil politics today in an effective manner.

Tried and failed to play more Spirit Island (bought the game) twice.