Daily Entry: September 1st, 2018

Sat Sep 01 15:14:49 UTC 2018

It's a brand new month, Stephan. Which means this weekly review will have a break down of my spending in August. Maybe I'll build some kind of monthly review habit.

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight DONE
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
    • Email DONE
  • YNAB DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Actions
    • Trello SKIPPED
    • JIRA SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack DONE
  • Review last year NOT UNTIL THE 4TH
  • Review last month SKIPPED
  • Review last week SKIPPED
  • Review yesterday SKIPPED
Sat Sep 01 15:15:58 UTC 2018

Morning sleep questions:

  • Do you remember your dream?
    • I only remember that I had a dream.
  • What time did you get into bed last night?
    • 2230
  • What time did you turn everything off and try to fall asleep?
    • 2300
  • 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?
    • 0230: 30 minutes
  • What time was your final awakening this morning?
    • 0630
  • What time did you get out of bed?
    • 0700
  • Did anything unusual happen yesterday that might have affected your sleep? (illness, disturbances, emotional stress, etc.)
    • Arms so sore they were in pain in the middle of the night
  • What is the total amount of time you slept last night in hours and minutes? (best estimate)
    • 6 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?
    • 1245: 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?
    • @1500 30 mg caffeine (16 oz decaf coffee)
  • Please rate your average sleepiness today on a scale of 1 - 10. (1 = wide awake, 10 = very sleepy)
    • 8
  • What time did you start blocking blue light?
    • 2100
Sat Sep 01 15:16:58 UTC 2018

Weight:

  • @0700: 208.6 lbs
  • @2100: 212.4 lbs
Sat Sep 01 15:19:36 UTC 2018

Protein @0800:

  • Soy protein: 110
  • Banana: 100 (210)

Breakfast @0900:

  • Banana pancakes: 600 (810)

Lunch @1200:

  • Tofu and potatoes: 600 (1410)

Coffee @1500:

  • Soy latte: 150 (1560)

Dinner @1630:

  • Falafels and fries: 600 (2160)

Protein @2000:

  • Tofu and potatoes: 500 (2660)
  • Grapes: 150 (2810)
Sat Sep 01 15:19:44 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 Laying in bed
0700 Morning routine
0730 TV: YouTube
0800 Pomodoro: Planning
0830 Cooking and Breakfast
0900 Breakfast TV: YouTube and Pomodoro: Inbox 0
0930 Pomodoro: Inbox Zero
1000 Pomodoro: Inbox Zero
1030 Pomodoro: Process actions
1100 Pomodoro: Process actions
1130 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin Hanging out with wife
1200 Lunch
1230 Lunch
1300 Pomodoro: Weekly Review NAP
1330 Pomodoro: Weekly Review Travel to REI
1400 NAP Buy new climb shoes
1430 Errand buffer Coffee
1500 Errand buffer Coffee
1530 Errand buffer Coffee
1600 Errand buffer Bus home
1630 Pomodoro: Personal Project TV: YouTube
1700 Pomodoro: Personal Project TV: YouTube
1730 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin TV: YouTube
1800 Pomodoro: IGDA Admin TV: YouTube
1830 Dinner TV: YouTube
1900 Gaming buffer TV: YouTube
1930 Gaming buffer TV: YouTube
2000 Time with Wife Reading: Pragmatic Programmer
2030 Time with Wife Pomodoro: End of day review
2100 Pomodoro: End of day review Winding down
2130 Winding down
2200 SLEEP
2230 SLEEP
2300 SLEEP
2330 SLEEP
Sat Sep 01 15:19:49 UTC 2018

Got a huge list of tickler items (both physical and digital) to process today. Probably worth its own pomodoro.

I'll also want to do some Vanguard stuff (like setting up my computer replacement fund).

Trello, JIRA, and wunderlist actions can wait until weekly review or even have a pomodoro to themselves today.

Sat Sep 01 16:19:36 UTC 2018

Lots of little action items in my ticklers today, so let's just crush some of 'em.

Sat Sep 01 17:23:45 UTC 2018

Huh. My JAWBONE device won't function without a JAWBONE app, but the company is out of business and the app defunct. Into the electronics garbage bin it goes.

Sun Sep 02 03:37:46 UTC 2018

End of day review.

  • Sleep questions DONE
  • Weight SKIPPED
  • Tickler
    • Physical DONE
    • Wunderlist DONE
  • Inbox
    • Physical N/A
    • Wunderlist DONE
    • Email DONE
  • YNAB DONE
  • Calendar DONE
  • Actions
    • Trello SKIPPED
    • JIRA SKIPPED
    • Wunderlist SKIPPED
  • Calorie Plan DONE
  • Fill timeblock DONE
  • Slack SKIPPED
  • Review last year NOT UNTIL THE 4TH
  • Review last month DONE
  • Review last week DONE
  • Review yesterday DONE
  • Review the Day
    • What have you been doing at work? SOMETHING'S BROKEN
    • How's climbing going? DONE
    • How're personal projects going? DONE
    • Are there any insights you had today that are worth writing down? DONE
    • What have you been reading? DONE
    • What have you been listening to? DONE
    • What have you been watching? DONE

"Work has been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster, but I think I'm going to come out of it better than I entered it." - A month ago

You thought right, me.

I'm OpsLead for a fraction of this weekend, and wouldn't you know, I got a page during that. It looks like I just need to rerun something so that's what I'm doing.

Taking a well-deserved weekend break from climbing, though I got new climbing shoes! I waited too long to recobble the old ones.... They'll be my emergency pair when it comes time to fix the new ones, I think.

Instead of personal projects, today was addressing the long list of small actions I've let build up. I got through a significant chunk of it, but then wife wanted to do something so I went and did new climbing shoe stuff early.

This thoroughly exhausted me. Though it seems I may have made the mistake of not trying to do another pomodoro upon getting home, because finally doing one now... my energy is coming back.

Oh, well, tomorrow is now open for me to do some stuff. It looks like before personal projects I have a bunch of basic personal maintenance to adhere to. I've gotten through a good chunk of it, and Wunderlist is helping me organize it in a way I like. I got through a bunch of stuff today, I'll do a little overview of what I have left to do tomorrow, and then I'll do my weekly review, and then some IGDA stuff, and then I'll think about what I need to do for personal projects.

Further exhausted myself with reading comics and watching YouTube. I need to start the habit of just starting a pomodoro. Or rather, any strat that is not giving me energy needs to be axed shortly into attempting it, including pomodoros if they're just not working.

Lots of browser reading today:

  • Twitter
  • Freethought Blogs | Pharyngula
  • Love Joy Feminism
  • Awkward Zombie (webcomic)

Listening:

Watching:

Yeah, I'm feeling a lot better doing this pomodoro. How many times do I need to learn this lesson? At work I've been doing great because I can't wait too long before starting a pomodoro before feeling like I'm falling behind.

I just need to have the same attitude about that at home, I guess.

Let's apply that lesson tomorrow!