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  • Texts from the kids

    “Dad!”

    “Um”

    “Whhaaaaa?”

    “Gross”

    “Dad, you are sending pictures to mom in the group chat again.”

  • Your life can improve

    If you feel a mess
    If you are depressed
    If chaos rules the day
    Perhaps you’d rather sleep it away

    Play the lottery
    For that quick fix
    Four dollars
    Buys a little hope

    A magic bean
    Will not fix
    The problems
    You have seen

    Instead
    Choose something small
    Wake up, floss those teeth
    Floss them all

    Tomorrow
    Add another small task
    Instead of stinking
    Take a bath

    Don’t let the bath
    Replace the floss
    Combine them together
    To be a boss

    Next day when you awake
    Hit the floor
    Eight pushups
    Maybe more

    These small tasks add up
    Do a little more
    And those huge tasks
    Will shrink away

    Day after day
    Is how habits form
    One day soon
    You will wake up with tasks no more.

  • Reboot

    Feel like I’m waking up again.

  • 90%

    Yesterday was delirium. Today I have a massive headache but am functional.

  • How do people in hospitals do it?

    I don’t wanna sleep anymore. But I don’t have the energy to do anything else.

  • Ginger ale is ambrosia

  • Ugh

    I jumped rope today and now I’m vomiting. Coincidence? I think not.

  • Special talents

    “Home ownership” should be listed on your resume under skills.

  • Today’s plumbing

  • Get rewards they said

    I’ll get right on that

  • Protected: Attitude determines outcome

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  • Protected: It’s not about hearing loss

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  • Annual planning

    Every year in December, I plan the next year of my life. I write poetry in my Hobonichi Techo, note the holidays and important dates, set an annual goal and monthly goals as well as defining 100 things to accomplish during the calendar year. It’s February and this hasn’t happened yet. Truly need time to slow down a bit. At this rate, I feel like I should simply begin planning for 2025. Maybe it is time to switch to a 5-year techo. Now, I’m going to clean up my tasks and projects in OmniFocus.

  • So you want to be a programmer?

    You will find yourself trying to automate everything in your life. And this is good.

    I use a Google spreadsheet to track all my professional time and projects. That sheet keeps evolving so that I can type less and get more information from it. Every enhancement makes me smile. Today’s was as simple as automatically showing the day of the week based on the UTC day and time entered. The next step will be to automatically calculate a subtotal of hours worked on that day (remembering that I could be working at 11pm at night which in UTC time would put that at 4am the next day…can’t show that as the next day) and break it out by different clients. That’s a non-trival task.