Feeling moody, because I’m a trash goblin and more importantly it’s Sunday and I overslept/generally stayed in bed too long. Which is like every Sunday, and a problem because if I’m not up and at ’em with my first alarm I feel pretty off for the rest of the day. Plus, I was super late to my writing group, mostly because of oversleeping but in part because Jabberwocky was laying with her chin on her food plate like “human, these greens are not fresh. What should you do about it?” So I had to feed her before I left. She went for the fresh stuff immediately, proving that she has discerning, if sometimes inscrutable, taste.
This last week has been good and bad, as weeks are prone to be. I got in a lot of exercise compared to most weeks, which is good! Even went running/walking yesterday, and weekend days are usually a gap in my schedule. I’ve also now been lifting weights long enough I’ve caught up to the “this is actually hard” and/or “I’m sore now” weights, which means I’m improving again.
I’ve been doing significantly better productivity-wise at work, too. Slight mental shift in wanting to do a better (aka adequate) job, plus being able to shift how I’m thinking about our (still terrible!) bonus system (~~see top image~~ just kidding I left it on my work computer). Oh, and keeping a running tab on paper of how many things I’ve each hour, which is a good way to know if I’m on pace or not.
My manager at work is also trying to help me move into a more tech-oriented position, which is grand. It was also surprisingly emotional for me, as this the first time I’ve had such a supportive boss since…ever? Yeah, ever. Lots of bosses want you to grow, very few will put in the effort to help it happen, in my experience.
The bad was mostly a pile of mixed successes. I lost a lot of evenings to playing Death Stranding, which is a rad af game but I’ve also put in like 35 hours in three weeks, which is probably Too Much Gaming given the other stuff I need to be doing. Which, sadly, is not playing Grumpy Norman Reedus: Post-apocalyptic Delivery Man Simulator 3000. Even if I’m discovering I want his job. Which is probably bad, given that his job is “haul dozens to hundred of pounds of stuff across a ruined USA where most everyone lives underground and pays you in Likes.”
Then again, it is a post-capitalism society… [1]
I also got knocked on the track of “I should get a dumbphone, cancel my internet line, and go back to fuckin’ DOS or something.” I think because I’m just not keeping up as well as I’d like with stuff, and my first instinct is to Blame the Internet. Though in this case it was mostly video games. Which weren’t on that list, but I don’t have the heart to throw my consoles into the ocean. Plus at least them I’m doing something, rather than just mindlessly scrolling on my phone. Think, if I had a dumbphone I could replace all that scrolling with taking 10x as long to send a text! Or I could read a book or something, I GUESS. A world of possibilities!
I’ve also been struggling with the SD card I ordered because I refuse to fully admit it’s probably just a lemon. Linux keeps chewing it up and spitting out input/output errors and making it a read-only filesystem when I try to copy a large amount of files onto it, until I reformat it. The FAT32 formatting probably isn’t doing it any favors, but it’s all I can use since I want to use it with Rockbox on my Sansa Clip+. I’m in the process of reformatting it on my Windows machine, in case there’s something Linux is doing in the reformat that isn’t fixing the problems its having, and try copying files from Windows then before I try with Linux. If it doesn’t work then then I’ll suck it up and order a new one. 256GB, someday you will be mine on a media player! This also might be a lesson in not ordering no-name SD cards from ebay, but why would I want to learn that lesson?
Last bad thing has just been not meeting goals. I’ve got Shivering Deeps to work on, and school (aaaaaAAAAAAAA), and coding, and learning Scottish Gaelic, and a million other things. So hopefully I’ll get more of that in this next week. I’ll have to do my best!
How were your weeks?
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Footnotes:
[1] As far as I can tell, Likes aren’t used in exchange for anything, just to rate your performance and make you feel good. And the “make you feel good” part is actively called out in the lore. It’s a weird game, y’all, and I love it to pieces.
