Daily Entry: May 31st, 2018

Thu May 31 15:46:24 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2130
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2215
  • 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?
    • 0500: 5 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0730
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0730
  • 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)
    • 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?
    • @1200 45 mg caffeine (venti decaf soy latte)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 1
Thu May 31 15:47:29 UTC 2018

Goals:

  • 3000 calories
  • 20g added sugars
  • 120g protein (20g every 3 hours)

Weight:

  • @0730: 215.8 lbs
  • @1800: 218.8 lbs

Protein @0800:

  • Soy protein: 110
  • Banana: 200 (310)
  • Watermelon: 100 (410)

Breakfast @1000:

  • Black bean chips: 170 (580)
  • Hummus: 150 (730)
  • Apple: 100 (830)

Lunch @1200:

  • El Borracho: 1000 (1810)
  • Fry bread: 400 (2210)

Birthday cupcake @1430:

  • Half a cupcake (sugar goal fail): 250 (2460)

Dinner @1830:

  • Soy protein: 110 (2570)
  • Banana: 110 (2680)

Protein @2130:

  • Soy protein: 110 (2790)
  • Banana: 100 (2890)
Thu May 31 15:52:50 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 Morning routine
0800 TV: YouTube
0830 Pomodoro: PLANNING Success
0900 Run to work
0930 Start of work routine
1000 Meeting: All hands
1030 Meeting: All hands
1100 Meeting: All hands
1130 Grabbing El Borracho
1200 Meeting: Lunch and Learn
1230 Meeting: Lunch and Learn
1300 Pomodoro: Onboarding Interrupted
1330 Pomodoro: Onboarding Workspaces standup
1400 Pomodoro: Post-mortem NAP
1430 Buffer Pomodoro: Onboarding Success
1500 NAP Pomodoro: Workspaces Happy birthday to co-worker
1530 Pomodoro: Prototype Pomodoro: Workspaces Success
1600 Pomodoro: Prototype Pomodoro: Workspaces Success
1630 Run home Socializing
1700 Stretching/Shower Run home
1730 Cooking Shower
1800 Eating and Shallow work
1830 Pomodoro: Timer Success
1900 Pomodoro: Timer Success
1930 Pomodoro: End of day review Success
2000 Gaming: Overwatch
2030 Gaming: Overwatch
2100 End of day routine
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Thu May 31 15:56:23 UTC 2018

Planned my day at home as planned. Fell into some bad habits watching videos this morning. Lost a pomodoro's worth of work. Lots of meetings today, too, so that hurts pretty hard.

Fri Jun 01 01:35:21 UTC 2018

Okay.... So. I have a choice. I can finish hacking in some event stuff that I send to Mixpanel, or I can start remaking this timer in panel and virtual jade. Aka things I use at work and thus working on this project will help me be better at work and vice versa.

I think I can have a hacky, possibly buggy event implementation by the end of today. Then I can just start playing with Mixpanel and use this timer to send events until I remake it in what I want to remake it in.

So, yeah, let's do that.

Fri Jun 01 02:35:44 UTC 2018

Not perfectly implemented, but it works.

Fri Jun 01 02:38:41 UTC 2018

End of day review time!

Let's make a checklist for this.

Which is a great time for a note about checklists, Stephan. I have, in the past, tried making checklists in their own file or files. But then I just don't use 'em. I think part of that is that updating them takes a tiny bit more work. I need to update them both in the file they live in, and while using them.

Better, for now, to just go to the previous time I used the checklist, copy it in its form and update it as needed.

Except.... I both have a timeblock file and a sleep file for those things.

Hmmmm.... Maybe I've just been lazy about creating checklist for certain day-to-day things like weight, calorie goals, and calorie counting?

In any case, let's checklist:

  • Tickler DONE
  • Inbox DONE
  • Email SKIPPED
    • Inbox DONE
    • Actions SKIPPED
  • Slack DONE
  • Update the diary post as necessary DONE
  • Review the Day SKIPPED
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
  • Review last month SKIPPED
  • Review last year SKIPPED

Had a new month of tickler items to process, took up a lot of time. Tomorrow morning I'm going to need to make up for all the stuff I skipped with tomorrow's start of day pomodoro.

Fri Jun 01 04:25:19 UTC 2018

I've made up for some skipped things during my end of day routine time.

I'm feeling pretty good about where I am and where I'm going. Pomodoros feel very powerful right now. I only got 3 done at work but it was still a productive day. Tomorrow there's no meetings, too! I'm excited to see how many pomodoros I get in tomorrow.

Fri Jun 01 04:34:47 UTC 2018

Because I'm reviewing the day at home now, I've started emailing myself work reviews. It's pretty powerful, actually. I just state what's on my plate, and how I'm rationing my time according to my responsibilities and my priorities.

Next step is to make sure things don't fall through the cracks.

Basically, I'm paper-prototyping (or email-prototyping) my GTD system that I've been planning.

Fri Jun 01 04:36:14 UTC 2018

Anyways, bed time.