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In Which A New Routine Develops
Jan. 9th, 2020 09:36 pmOver the course of this week, a routine has been developing, obviously not a permanent one, but one for the moment.
Early Morning Walk of the Day (Not). I'd dreamed that in Kauai I could go out for a 30-minute walk every morning on the Loop Trail in the golf course that immediately adjoins our house. Yeah, not so much. The problem is that it's still dark when I wake up at 7am, and it's been raining pretty much every day. Maybe in a month or two that can join my routine.
Work of the Day (Blockchain Commons). Today I'd scheduled Blockchain Commons for my work, with the intent of first commenting a StackScript, then working on PRs and issues on our course. Well, I did the first half. I didn't get further because of the bane of my work in recent years: multitasking. TEC started crashing after backups today, so I gave that some attention. And then there were some RWOT tasks that needed doing. Hopefully the long-term plan, when I start consulting in April, will be that I can focus on things. Meanwhile, I'm still not sure on my work space. I've moved my desk around, but I'm still having trouble with glare from the window, but the rest of the problems with keyboards and chairs and such should start to be remedied by Amazon deliveries tomorrow.
Drive of the Day (Lihue). After work, my dad and Mary came over and we all drove to Lihue. By which I mean I drove to Lihue, with a car full of moral support, and my dad to provide navigation as needed, so I could just concentrate on driving. It was much less tense than last time I was in Lihue, which was my first driving with Julie the Benz. In particular, I didn't feel super-tense speeding along the highway coming home (though I was well aware that I was going below the speed limit most of the time). The parking lots were even OK. It was all straight-in parking, but our two stops, CostCo and Home Depot, both have really big aisles. I mean, I parked out in the middle of nowhere both times, but I felt relatively confident getting in and out of those empty spaces. (While I out I got a lawnmower at Home Depot and Kimberly and I got a week's worth of food or more at Costco; and then we hit awful, awful traffic coming home from Lihue.)
Move-in of the Day (Entertainment Center). Our super-heavy entertainment center arrived today, so after dinner I spent about two hours putting it together. It looks very nice, and although I didn't exactly reduce the chaos in our house, because no boxes were unpacked and no dishes or other things were put away, we do now have a place to put away box #1 (electronics) and box #3 (movies) ... which makes me wonder what box #2 was, so I looked up the shipping list, and it says that's movies too. I wonder where it is.
I feel like I haven't had a weekend since we moved to Kauai, though maybe that day we went swimming, whenever it was, counts. (I think it was a Sunday.) So I'm looking forward to that, following tomorrow's work. Maybe I can rest a bit ...
Early Morning Walk of the Day (Not). I'd dreamed that in Kauai I could go out for a 30-minute walk every morning on the Loop Trail in the golf course that immediately adjoins our house. Yeah, not so much. The problem is that it's still dark when I wake up at 7am, and it's been raining pretty much every day. Maybe in a month or two that can join my routine.
Work of the Day (Blockchain Commons). Today I'd scheduled Blockchain Commons for my work, with the intent of first commenting a StackScript, then working on PRs and issues on our course. Well, I did the first half. I didn't get further because of the bane of my work in recent years: multitasking. TEC started crashing after backups today, so I gave that some attention. And then there were some RWOT tasks that needed doing. Hopefully the long-term plan, when I start consulting in April, will be that I can focus on things. Meanwhile, I'm still not sure on my work space. I've moved my desk around, but I'm still having trouble with glare from the window, but the rest of the problems with keyboards and chairs and such should start to be remedied by Amazon deliveries tomorrow.
Drive of the Day (Lihue). After work, my dad and Mary came over and we all drove to Lihue. By which I mean I drove to Lihue, with a car full of moral support, and my dad to provide navigation as needed, so I could just concentrate on driving. It was much less tense than last time I was in Lihue, which was my first driving with Julie the Benz. In particular, I didn't feel super-tense speeding along the highway coming home (though I was well aware that I was going below the speed limit most of the time). The parking lots were even OK. It was all straight-in parking, but our two stops, CostCo and Home Depot, both have really big aisles. I mean, I parked out in the middle of nowhere both times, but I felt relatively confident getting in and out of those empty spaces. (While I out I got a lawnmower at Home Depot and Kimberly and I got a week's worth of food or more at Costco; and then we hit awful, awful traffic coming home from Lihue.)
Move-in of the Day (Entertainment Center). Our super-heavy entertainment center arrived today, so after dinner I spent about two hours putting it together. It looks very nice, and although I didn't exactly reduce the chaos in our house, because no boxes were unpacked and no dishes or other things were put away, we do now have a place to put away box #1 (electronics) and box #3 (movies) ... which makes me wonder what box #2 was, so I looked up the shipping list, and it says that's movies too. I wonder where it is.
I feel like I haven't had a weekend since we moved to Kauai, though maybe that day we went swimming, whenever it was, counts. (I think it was a Sunday.) So I'm looking forward to that, following tomorrow's work. Maybe I can rest a bit ...