Landing page. Please click on a day to view content created on/for that day.[ ] (B) Finish writing big report [ ] (M) Support other people that are giving inputs for big report [ ] (M) Clean house for Sabbath [ ] (S) Write note for coworker anniversary [ ] (S) Write annual performance review [ ] (S) As time allows, work on bed in evening[X] (B) Continue writing big report [X] (M) Support other people contributing to my big report [X] (M) Exercise at work gym (squats, bench press, rows) [ ] (S) Write personal annual performance review [ ] (S) Write a note for a coworker's 40th work anniversary [ ] (S) As time allows in the evening, work on new model for bed. Got my big and medium tasks done. Did not take the few minutes the other tasks should have taken.I didn’t make a plan for today. I stayed up too late last evening, and didn’t make a plan when I woke up this morning. I’m writing this entry on the 19th as I work on getting back in the saddle.
Some lessons learned:
Sometimes my work asks me to do things that I don’t get a charge number for. These should be my small tasks for the day. If you want to add a new habit, you’re going to have to commit a small task to it for a couple days in a row.[/] (B) Continue writing big report [/] (M) Prepare for a kickoff meeting [X] (M) Write down sermon notes for Abraham for another person who will preach it. [X] (S) Return StitchFix box [ ] (S) Schedule haircut [X] (S) As time allows in the evening, work on new model for bed.[/] (B) Continue writing big report (3 hours) [X] (M) Clean house for Sabbath [/] (M) Write down Mitochondrial DNA post [X] (S) Create ULine account, create cart [X] (S) Email Michel [X] (S) Think about where to store Bible study notes I’m thinking of storing some of my Bible study notes (and any other notes) and research on a Media Wiki that I self-host.
Once I made the ULine account, I think I realized that really what I’m looking for are one or two small parts storage bins, which run around $45 used or new.[X] (B) Continue writing big report (4+ hours) [/] (M) Start a physics model (2+ hours) [ ] (M) Sort through junk in den [ ] (S) List stuff on craigslist [ ] (S) Haul junk to dumpster and goodwill bags to car [X] (S) Re-read mitochondria DNA papers I stayed up too late on 2023-09-13, which impacted getting a head start on my day in the morning. Also, my wife had some errands to run in the afternoon, so I was watching Matthew instead of handling some of the tasks that I was anticipating doing.[X] (B) Create a physics simulation in python (invest 4+ hours) [X] (M) Start big report (invest 2+ hours) [X] (M) Sort through junk in den [X] (S) Ask Stack Overflow about next steps for hard-drive recovery [X] (S) Identify a website with nice blog format to reverse engineer [X] (S) Figure out plywood dimensions for bed remodel Ask StackOverflow about next steps for hard-drive recovery I’m not expecting much, but this is what I posted: Recovering data from iMac internal hard drive when you can’t login to your account anymore[X] (B) Create spreadsheets at work [X] (M) Understand how water works in Blender [/] (M) Go through Stitch Fix subscription [/] (S) Ask Stack Overflow about recovery of hybrid drive (APFS) [ ] (S) Re-read mitochondrial DNA articles [X] (S) Find address of local barber Lessons learned:
The 1-2-3 method is scored with 30 points for your big task, 20 points for your mediums, and 30 points for your smalls.[X] (B) Write document at day job [X] (M) Spend 30 minutes modeling ark [X] (M) Make Amazon S3 site HTTPS using cloudfront [X] (S) Call sailor friend [X] (S) Wipe down the tent [X] (S) Restart home server Spent a little more time modeling the ark than I probably should have. Otherwise, pretty good day.Return from camping
[X] (B) unload car [X] (M) do a load of laundry [X] (M) wash dishes [X] (S) Google options for professional data recovery [X] (S) Share photos from this weekend [X] (S) Pick a ULINE box size to organize cables Today was a good day. I tried to set smaller expectations for what I was going to accomplish, which I think was a good thing. I’m finding it’s better to make plans to get a few things done, but nail those things, than to make plans to get a bunch of things done and get none of them done.Camping. No entry.No 123 for today.
I got sick and tired yesterday, and spent time googling instead of journaling.
From this, I learned two lessons. The first is a lesson that teachers know. When you get sick, you still have to write down your lesson plans for tomorrow even though you’re still sick. Just curling up in a corner and not tying up loose ends sounds relaxing, but you (and your substitute teacher) will wish that you didn’t.[X] (B) Update work document at day job (08:00) [/] (M) Spend 30 minutes gathering photos for sermon (05:30) [X] (M) Attempt to boot Ubuntu from live USB on dead computer 06:05 [X] (S) Call AT&T during their work hours (06:00) [X] (S) Lookup tote options for organizing den 18:10 [ ] (S) Clean up extra calendar subscriptions on iPhone 18:00 No diary entry for this day. I got sick and didn’t take the five minutes to write it.Two day streak now. Doing this 1-2-3 technique with kids always means that you have some unexpected things come up, like when your kid wakes up 40 minutes earlier than usual, and uses up the time you were planning for one of your medium tasks.
Another thing that I’ve empirically discovered about the 1-2-3 method is that small tasks can be used to “start” a task just to break the friction on it.Welp, I failed to write my entry for yesterday. But I guess that’s okay. Unless you’re somebody’s employer, you generally don’t like watching somebody execute something perfectly. IT can be a little discouraging to feel like everyone around you is perfect and you’re the only screwed up person. So for everyone out there (except my employer), look! I failed at my goals from two days ago.
What I learned in the process is that part of what makes the 1-2-3 method work is timeboxing.Resurrection I’m going back into blogging again.
My old blog slowly petered out. Part of the reason is that I made it so darn difficult to push changes to my site. The previous site was built on Pelican, which is a Python static site generator. It was hosted on an AWS EC2 instance. I had a script that would build the site, but it only worked on one computer (that I didn’t use very often).