October 20, 2017

 I forgot to mention my new notebooks and planner came yesterday. The planner is really cool and now I'm looking forward to the new year so I can start using it. The cover for it has shipped so it will be here sometime, but I'm not exactly sure when because it's coming from the United Kingdom. I started using one of the notebooks today to take notes about my day. As I will soon write, there was not a lot going on with my day, so there wasn't much to write, but it is good to get in the practice of it.

It was not a productive day.

This morning I woke up at 8:45AM and spent the morning watching YouTube videos and livestreams, clicking around the internet, and I started transcribing the conversation I've been having with someone on Bumble. I was curious how much we had actually managed to type and so far I'm up to ten single spaced pages, and that's only a small fraction of the conversation. I worked on that off and on throughout the day and I had to take breaks because my left wrist and hand were not enjoying all of the typing.

I went and got my haircut at 12:30PM, so now I won't have to worry about needing a haircut during my presentation next week. When I got home I ate lunch and then it was basically a repeat of my morning.

Later in the afternoon I took a nap, which was nice, and then I ate dinner and continued doing the same old thing. I wanted to play video games today but I didn't. Mostly because I also wanted to work on my presentation today, but I didn't, so I would have felt guilty playing games.

Right now I am writing this while standing in my kitchen with my laptop on the banister. I spent the vast majority of my day sitting down and I needed to stand up. I don't know if this will become a thing but it is a good way of keeping me focused on typing instead of getting distracted by watching videos. But to be fair, I stopped halfway through this to write an email to my friend who is currently deployed and paused numerous times to reply to messages with my Bumble match. So distractions are ever-present, regardless of my venue.