Experiment: engineering as last block?

At first, gaming was supposed to be my last block of the night.

But a lot of the times, gaming wakes me up.

As much as I love math, engineering, and physics, it's also a good way to tire out my brain. And gaming is a natural segue from coding. 

For coding: I start with my coding warmups (overflow from right before work), then move into Foam Fraction Flow and physics sims, then do my coding "workout" which is a study (via courses, books, and projects) of a specific area of interest, then work on my biggest priority project and course. 

After that, freelance work or open source, then I move to game development. Then gaming as a mandatory reward (you've got to play lots of games if you want to develop them well). 

Then that will give me some energy to slide into engineering, which in turn will sap my energy again. Then my wind-down routine: nightly planning, PT with a show, and get ready for bed. 

My technical block is always the last one of each day right now, before my 1-hour wind-down routine. Let's see how this goes. 


HOW IT GOES

First off: morning studies, spirituality, and Wordle to wake up the brain

Then: Work out. Yoga, lift, run, stretch. 

Then languages to kickstart the brain, and then music, because music has the most potential to annoy people so it needs to be done early. But not too early while everyone is sleeping. 

Then I move into meditation. Then art, then reading (fiction) and writing. Then coding/IT, getting online, gaming/game dev, and engineering. 

Then 1 hour wind-down consisting of: planning/goal-setting, PT with a show, getting ready for bed, journaling, prepping to lucid dream, and reading (textbooks and nonfiction this time). 

I have to take care of life chores and cleaning too so those go in there somewhere :) oh yeah and I have to go to work or whatever, but that's just an extension of the coding block. 

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