This weekend is a three-day holiday but there’s a typhoon crossing over today and tomorrow so I’m mostly staying in my apartment. The past week felt like it was full of meetings. One meeting did not go as well as I hoped but two others went much better than I expected.

On Wednesday, my iPad suddenly refusing to charge, which resulted a quick trip to the Apple store to get it checked out. After leaving it off for a while, it suddenly turned back on and started charging again which was a surprise but I had already made an appointment so I went ahead and had it checked out. For better or worse the diagnostics check could find nothing wrong with it, and sending it off to be repaired would be expensive and I would be without my iPad for around 2 weeks so for now I’ll just wait to see what happens.

I had not planned on spending most of my afternoon prototyping a vscode-worklog extension, but once I started writing, I kept tweaking one more thing until most of my afternoon had disappeared. The code is still super messy and there are bugs I found while writing this post, but at least the basic prototype seems reasonable.

I also spent some of this morning working on upgrading some of my test virtual machines. I probably have a lot of old settings files to cleanup so that may be a longer term cleanup. I had wanted to upgrade to a newer distro so that I have access to a newer system python.

Been making progress upgrading my island sanctuary and my group seems to be ready to finish raft next week.

Review period at work is over for now, but some small outages resulted in me being unable to progress on other larger tasks.

This week, Final Fantasy XIV Buried Memory was released so I’ve been playing that a lot in the evenings. After finishing the main story missions, I’ve been enjoying playing with the new Island Sanctuary area.

I did not realize until Wednesday, that there was a holiday on Thursday (山の日 ) so then I quickly took Friday off as well to make it a LONG weekend.

Not taking things Personally

https://medium.dave-bailey.com/the-art-of-not-taking-things-personally-b7a8395ce172

When we encounter emotions and behaviours that don’t make sense to us, it’s often because we don’t have all the information. And in the absence of information, we tend to assume the worst.

The past few days, I’ve had to deal with a somewhat sudden issue that has me a bit miffed. It’s quite surprising timing to have this come up in my feed. I think I also need to be more mindful of my own stress bucket at times. My local cat cafe is sometime a good way to help melt some stress away. Now that the weather is finally starting to cool down a bit, evening walks are another of my favorite ways to reduce stress.

Review season at work tends to drain me mentally and my usual motivation suffers

I’ve been continuing to try to cut most social media down and removing sources of “doom scrolling” to see if I can help reset some of my mood and restore my focus.

Monday was mountain day so it was a shorter work week. Though most of this week the weather in Kyushu was full of heavy rain, leaving me a bit less energetic than usual. I’m trying to take more daily notes in noteplan to help me remember what I did for the week.

In order to force myself to get in the habit of documenting more of my work, I want to try to start writing weekly notes of what I have been up to.