Reality Me

The caffeine wakes me.

The caffeine wakes me.

The caffeine wakes me.

The caffeine drives me.

The caffeine drives me.

The caffeine drives me.

The caffeine makes me unfocused.

The caffeine makes me unfocused.

The caffeine makes me unfocused.

The Xanax calms me.

The Xanax calms me.

The Xanax calms me.

The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.

The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.

The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.

The caffeine wakes me.

The caffeine wakes me.

The caffeine wakes me.

The caffeine drives me.

The caffeine drives me.

The caffeine drives me.

The caffeine makes me unfocused.

The caffeine makes me unfocused.

The caffeine makes me unfocused.

The Xanax calms me.

The Xanax calms me.

The Xanax calms me.

The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.

The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.

The Xanax calms makes me sleepy.

The …

Sometimes to solve a problem, we have to distract ourselves. When my Macbook Pro died, friends and family came to the rescue. I now primarily work in Microsoft’s domain so a Dell Laptop (a loan from a good friend) saved my career. I still do my side work and creative work on an iMac (a gift from a family member) but OS13 Ventura and the M1 chip changed much. My development environment hasn’t worked since the upgrade. I haven’t had much time to give toward fixing it. During today’s mental break from my work, I succeeded in getting PHP8 and DNSMASQ working! Thanks to this guide: https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-ventura-apache-upgrade-homebrew

Part 1: https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-ventura-apache-multiple-php-versions

Part 2: https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-ventura-apache-mysql-vhost-apc

Next step is to get MySQL5.7 working so that I can migrate my old databases to MySQL8. Then I’ll need to get Ruby working and make sure that I can use Redmine again. What a pain.

One of the best things I have done for myself for logging and time keeping had been to mentally switch to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time also Universal Time Coordinated) which is also known as Z time or Zulu Time. Prior to 1972, it was known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). There is a more complicated history but that’s for another time (pun intended).

I made my transition to UTC by using an Apple Watch watch face that has local time and UTC. But the thing helped the most was setting an analog clock above my desk to UTC. I love it!

Seems I had a TikTok video go viral. Very exciting!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRGHH1KD/

Ah, to further complicate my already difficult Monday, let’s throw in a bunch of technical problems to the mix.

People who go to sleep at midnight or 1am have no business waking up at 5:30am. Now I have to decide whether to exercise, meditate, get straight to work, or cry tears into my coffee.

I may be doing this wrong

This looks similar to the wordpress app.

Step 1: I know this is hard because it is so warm and comforting, but you have to get out from under the covers and out of bed

I am wide awake. Been calendaring and planning until a few moments ago. I’d like to continue but I’ll already be paying a price for this late hour. Time to find sleep.

I think my high school guidance counselor failed me. Why did no one tell me you have a career sticking tape on people?

Success! Tools back in their place.

Plus I found these.

In the first place I looked and accidentally didn’t see them…