Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

It's actually going well so far. I have made more consistent progress in the last few days than I have in a long time.  The main things I need to make sure of are that I still get to bed on time, and that I keep my spaces clean. And I've only been gaming for 5-10 minutes instead of 20, so I need to fix that.  But if I treat my pursuits as non-negotiables just like a workout, this seems to work well. 

Sunday night until Monday morning, 7 pm to midnight. This is what no CI/CD does to you and why you should never join a company that “operates like a startup” even when they’re not one  Great for an early bird like me who values work life balance and goes to bed at 9:00 every night 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

It's simple. I keep missing my daily marks. I hit the 2-minute rule but that's it. I have to solve this issue of hardly making any forward momentum.  So, I'm setting a baseline goal of 90 minutes for personal work per day. It's not enough, but it's much more than I've been doing. Then, I will also have 20 minutes for gaming and game development. 110 minutes total. That's also not enough, but I have to start somewhere. This might be the ideal summer schedule actually.  So basically something like 25 minutes art (even though an hour is better, got to start at 25 since I haven't been doing enough ever since dreamworks cut me), 25 writing and reading, 15 music, 10 coding, 10 engineering, 5 visualization. I cannot compromise my workouts to do this.  I'll still need to clean a lot more too, and keep my trello boards organized. But let's see if I can do this. I might have to get very creative some days. 

I have a choir performance tomorrow at church. But I also went to the Haunted Forest this evening. I was kinda stressing about whether or not all the yelling and screaming would jack up my vocal cords. Well, turns out I don't scream that much unless I'm with other screamers. I mostly just laughed when I got jumpscared, with a shout here or there. I'll drink a lot of fluid tonight but at least for now it seems that I can talk OK. I won't be doing any more vocal work tonight at any rate.  And after all that I forgot to grab merch. Oh well, my wallet is probably happy about that. Except not really because I ate out three times today WHOOPS Also let's be real I'm not exactly carrying this choir. :D So even if I do feel hoarse tomorrow we're going to be fine. 

I’m gonna start tomorrow . My 2-minute rule plan is executing. But the next step is to have full-blown sessions. They don’t need to be long though. Just enough for forward momentum of any degree beyond just 1 sentence or a warmup sketch.  I tried today, I failed, but I won’t again. I had great success with daily art while at DreamWorks, but the plan was too contingent on scheduling. Once that 8 am - 9 am block vanished, so did the habit. This is not good. I did succeed on music today, at least.

The nice weather was fun while it lasted. 😭