Feelings
I maintain a diary of my feelings using Daylio which I publish to this site daily. I wrote a bit about it on my blog, if you are interested in how and why.
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I felt meh
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- Very relaxing day where I watched football
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I felt rad
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- Deep cleaned the entire apartment
- Entertained a small Friendsgiving that went pretty well, all things considered
- Rachel and I are going to come up with 3 things we love about ourselves and 3 things we think we need to fix AND 3 thing about the other person we love and 3 things that need fixing. It might me not make her feel “small”
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I felt good
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- Cooked all day, I think the food turned out alright. Tomorrow is a Friendsgiving where I have to do some of it again.
- The Von Dutch documentary is very fascinating!
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I felt rad
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- Half day of work and shopped for groceries for tomorrow
- DATE NIGHT IN AMERICA!! We went to a nice sushi place for dinner and then went to an emo show to see Proper. (amazing), Home Is Where (the band I was most looking forward to and they did not disappoint in the least) and Glass Beach (not my cup of tea but I loved the energy and the music translated really well live, would have stayed for the whole set but my feet hurt cause I’m old).
- Tomorrow we cook so very much!
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I felt good
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- Finished up and documented the final steps on a project I was working on! Now on to fun stuff!
- Started prepping for Thanksgiving, going to be a lot of fun to cook
- Rachel and I got in a little spat when I accidentally sent her food delivery order away because I thought they got the food I ordered wrong
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I felt meh
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- Work went okay, so close to moving to something fun.
- Caught up on Succession, such a wild show
- 2 more days until a little break
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I felt good
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- Very lazy Sunday, watched football and that’s about it
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I felt rad
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- Met Toby in person! Gathered a bunch of people to Grimm in BK to pre game for an emo show…
- …the emo show was canceled because one of the Mom Jeans got COVID
- Got Calexico + met up the Aadil, which is a good fallback
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I felt good
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- Week being the PM turned out okay, pretty happy about that
- Relaxing night in
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I felt meh
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- Got a lot done at work, I think we’re gonna make our deadline
- Was very tired after work and ordered Seva instead of cooking, such good Indian food!
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I felt good
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- Got my flu shot + COVID booster 💉💉
- Weird day at work, did get somethings done, but I really want to do more not on the project I’m working on
- Can’t sleep cause I drank late coffee to be amped up for a call
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I felt meh
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- Nothing seemed to go super well today, hopefully tomorrow is easier without any meetings.
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I felt meh
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- Wrote a blog post about Glocca Morra’s Just Married that I’ll promote tomorrow.
- Finally got the thing the page switch thing done at work. Gonna have to dive into a legacy codebase tomorrow, which I will grit through.
- Rachel was a little stressed today, wish I could have been more helpful, though I was supportive.
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I felt meh
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- Utterly bland day where I did nothing. Felt a little off.
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I felt meh
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- Felt a little dizzy all day. Skipped going to Katherine’s birthday party and watched football all night.
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I felt good
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- Started the Therapist Next Door, so funny and it’s ethical lapses stresses Rachel out in a very funny way
- Weekend mode, baby!
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I felt good
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- Without the meeting in the middle of the day, I was able to get into the flow for the first time in a while!
- Made that fire chicken with the rice cakes and mozzarella, so good and so rich!
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I felt good
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- Date night where we went to a Tennis concert. They are so good live!
- Making progress at work, tho I’m going to need to refactor some things tomorrow.
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I felt bad
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- Another day at work where I felt like I spun my wheels trying to help people. I know I’m getting things done, I just feel a little helpless to say no to people.
- Finished my website update blog post, will post tomorrow
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I felt bad
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- Just an overall bad day at work
- Finished my site redesign blog post, gotta proofread before I post on social. I do love the new background, even tho it doesn’t work on iOS.
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I felt rad
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- Another football Sunday where the Browns won a blowout. Made delicious chicken thighs over Brussels sprouts for dinner, turned out perfectly!
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I felt rad
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- DATE NIGHT IN ASTORIA! Had a sushi dinner followed by 1.25 comedy shows (We stayed for the headline show and 2 comics at the late show, we got our laughs and ran)
- Setup Rachel’s new Mac, bought myself a new MacBook Pro, and cleaned the kitchen, such an eventful day!
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I felt meh
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- Was sorta sleepy all day, ran something things at work because of outages which was nice
- Weekend time!
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I felt rad
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- Made a lot of progress at work and am putting the finishing touches on a new blog post for my site. Really productive day all around!
- Cannot wait for people to see the background on my personal site, it’s stunning and cool.
- Made a chicken with caramelized onions and fennel, turned out so very good!
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I felt good
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- Went and saw a play on Broadway called Clyde. Saw it blind, was a very funny and weird show about a sandwich restaurant.
- Wrote documents all day at work.
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I felt good
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- Voted!
- Released some huge changes with our breaking everything… yet
- Made a great eggs, beans, greens, and sausage that would have been even better if our bread didn’t get all moldy 😭
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I felt good
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- Made an apple slab pie, will taste it tomorrow
- Work went okay, I think I’m ready to deploy a big change tomorrow. I think I’m being helpful.
- I made my resume parseable by computers that aren’t Google. It’s ugly if I do it this way, but hey, machines love ugly!
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I felt good
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- Browns lost, but that’s okay, no skin off my back
- Saw Last Night In Soho with Kris & friends, really enjoyed the movie and company
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I felt rad
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- Fun diner brunch and hangout with the Barnard Gals™️
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I felt meh
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- Long day at work, but at least it’s Friday!
- Rachel and I went on a date to the French bistro on our block and had such good food!
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I felt meh
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- Made a delicious caramelized shallot pasta with sausage
- Making progress at work tho that progress is making me sad
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I felt meh
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- Opened a PR against npm core, need to finish it tomorrow evening
- Just felt kinda blah today
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I felt good
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- ✈️
- Fixed something at work by actually writing tests to make sense of it all
- Made a butter chicken that turned out okay
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I felt rad
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- I made my first public npm package!
- Work went pretty well, let’s keep this momentum rolling!
- Rachel failed her driver test and I tried to be supportive, dunno if that was the case though 😭
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I felt good
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- Another necessary lazy Sunday
- I made a French onion grilled cheese that was spectacular
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I felt meh
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- Very lazy day where I played games and finished Squid Game and Only Murders In The Building
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I felt meh
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- Dropped out of work early because I was feeling dizzy
- Slept a bit and then started the new Pokémon game, which I am digging somewhat
- Squid Game is getting crazy
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I felt rad
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- Response to the ADHD post was very positive, Rachel teared up reading it a little bit
- Avoid handling rough project at work today
- Browns won!
- I made eggs in purgatory aka Italian shakshuka, turned out great!
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I felt good
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- Spent the day hunting down a bug only to discover that it was in fact a human issue and not a technical one
- Finished a new blog post that I’ll promote tomorrow.
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I felt good
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- Finally finished the thing at work AND didn’t need to support IE11!
- Getting close on my blog post about ADHD
- Wrote some documentation on the Gatsby Cloud issues, hopefully I have resolution on it this week
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I felt meh
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- New couch arrived! It’s bigger and thicker than our old one, but it does feel sturdy and comfortable!
- So so so very close on making this stupid library work in IE11
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I felt good
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- Nice relaxing day in which I slow cooked a pork puttanesca
- Went to a surprise cocktail hour for Hayden’s birthday! It was nice to meet new people
- Browns lost but that’s okay, just a game
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I felt rad
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- Did all of our grocery shopping and errands today instead of tomorrow
- Bought a new couch locally!
- Got cereal ice cream in Lil Egypt
- Made a delicious steak dinner, even tho I cooked the steak medium
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I felt bad
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- Man, today sucked. I broke everything at work and it took all day to fix.
- Let’s try to have a good weekend, but it’s off to a bad start with a bad taste in my mouth
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I felt good
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- Almost done with this exciting thing at work that I hope makes us money
- Freestyled a carbonara out of the ingredients in the apartment, turned out okay
- Rachel had a much better day and was able to laugh about some things
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I felt good
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- Had a really good therapy appointment today. “Ego is a neutral thing, it’s only bad or good depending on use”
- Oven is still broke 😭
- Work went okay, I really need to finish this iframe thing I’m working on
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I felt good
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- Work went a lot easier today AND we solved the production specific bug that was ailing us (sorta)
- Rachel had a stressful dinner prep because the oven turned off half was through. Gotta get the super to look at that tomorrow
- Added a little dark mode switch to my personal site that I’m pretty happy with
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I felt meh
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- Work got marginally better at the end of the day. I’m still a little stressed, but I think I have a path.
- Finished the new season of Ted Lasso, I don’t understand Nate’s deal!?
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I felt awful
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- Having a super rough day at work because I don’t feel like I’m helping.
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I felt good
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- Last day of my family in NYC
- Got breakfast as a family at a diner and then my parents and I hung out in my apartment to watch football as we were so tired from the past few days
- Finished with a nice family dinner of French dips
- I’m gonna miss my family, it was so nice to have everyone together for the first time in a while and on good terms
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I felt rad
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- Very fun day with my family that culminated with karaoke
- Saw To Kill A Mockingbird on Broadway, what a fuckin powerful show, loved it so much!!!
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I felt rad
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- Did touristy stuff with my family! We went to the Empire State Building (loved), the Whitney (eh it was alright, exhibits were boring), Central Park (who doesn’t like the park), and K Town (BBQ is so good and my mom tired most things).
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I felt good
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- Half day, cleaned my apartment
- My family is town, had two dinners, I think it’s gonna be a good weekend
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I felt meh
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- The bug that is only showing up in production is driving me crazy
- My family is visiting tomorrow!
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I felt good
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- Work was sorta meh. Going through the motions on things, getting pulled in to others, you know the drill. All will sort itself out soon, I’m sure.
- I finished the redesign of my personal site! I’m going to write up a blog post about all the stuff I’ve added this year as a formal introduction. Maybe I’ll use the time to extract a plugin or two, who knows!?
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I felt meh
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- Work made me a lil anxious today. Instead of self medicating, I worked on my personal site for far too long. Good news: I think a redesign that I’m very happy with might be able to ship this week!
- I was very supportive of Rachel’s good cooking today. Working on being more supportive cause she’s sensitive about that.
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I felt good
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- Browns won!
- Made a delicious pork chops & caramelized apple dish
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I felt rad
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- Rachel’s birthday! Went to the Bagel Festival and then went furniture shopping. I then convinced her to contact Natalie and we met in Prospect Park before getting dinner. Finished it all off with a drink at the Last Word and talked about the upcoming year for her.
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I felt rad
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- Made a lot of progress at work on making SKUs accessible. I’m gonna do a little more work this weekend to test them and make a nice hook for querying.
- Got a nice sushi dinner at a spot we’d never been to before. It was very cute and the food was good.
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I felt rad
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- Last day of working in the office. Had a lot of good discussions and camaraderie!
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I felt rad
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- Another day in the office! Got some crucial context on what’s coming and it could be exciting or just okay, too early to tell.
- Had another fun team dinner
- Rachel and I gave the cats bunch of catnip treats and played with them and they were very funny
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I felt rad
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- Went into the office to work with my coworkers! Was nice to see everyone in person and go on technical walks outside.
- Had a nice team dinner, food was just okay tho, I had salad with shrimp & burrata.
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I felt good
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- First day back at work! Got a lot done and I’m really happy with this session route I created.
- Excited to go back to the office and see people tomorrow!
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I felt meh
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- Was hungover all day
- Watched football and made an amazing Japanese curry
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I felt rad
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- Went to a concert at Union Pool with Adam & Justin. Got a lil too drunk, might want to take it easy this week.
- Slept in late and stayed up late, thanks jet lag!
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I felt good
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- Traveled back to NYC. Our layovers during our flights so we didn’t get to eat a whole lot until we got back.
- Started watching Sweet Tooth, which I am enjoying. Also, finished Hacks, what a finale!
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I felt rad
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- My parents visited me the last day we were in Portland. We hung out of the rooftop of the hotel before heading to a steak dinner.
- Before my parents showed up, Rachel & I brunched and played some mini golf.
- Finished off the night with a nice 🥃
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I felt rad
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- Another aimless yet fun vacation day
- Went to a farmers market (got spicy pickles and spicy tomato vinegar) and the Portland Art Museum
- Bought Rachel some stylish overalls
- Had a delicious dinner at Normandie followed by games & drinks at Ground Kontrol
- Tomorrow is the last day here, gonna make the most of it.
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I felt rad
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- Went hiking at Multnomah Falls. It was somewhat intense because of how out of shape we were, but it was so beautiful and nice.
- Went to a fantastic dinner at Arden. The prix fixe menu with wine pairing was to die for!
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I felt good
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- Went to the International Rose Test Garden & Japanese garden.
- Slept most of the day, you need to do that sometimes on vacation I feel.
- Randomly had a full ass Thanksgiving meal for lunch at Huber’s.
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I felt rad
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- Watched the Browns game at a local Browns Backer Bar, which was nice and fun
- Went to Cartopia which was slightly meh (I got subpar Mexican)
- Finished the day off with a fancy Japanese meal and Salt & Straw ice cream
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I felt rad
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- Amazing day in Portland. Got Voodoo donuts, Stumptown, and went to a farmers market.
- Took a cat nap and then saw the Green Knight, which I loved but Rachel was confused by.
- Finished it off with a rich meal at the hotel restaurant. My steak and wine was so good.
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I felt rad
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- Traveled to Portland today
- Had an amazing dinner and lunch at places Rachel picked out
- Bought a nice looking raincoat for the next few days
- Got very drunk at a craft beer bar and then a cocktail bar. We only went to the cocktail bar because we thought there was tarot but it was really a rap album release party
- Really enjoying our vacation so far
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I felt good
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- Last day of work before vacation
- Got dinner at Rivercrest solo and watched some of the game. Love dining alone!
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I felt good
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- Spent the day documenting a new feature and then implementing part of it. I even got to open a PR against an older OSS codebase! Great time working!
- One more day before my vacation!
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I felt good
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- Spent the work day documenting and planning a new feature coming down the pipeline. Can’t wait to rush to implement some of it tomorrow before my vacation.
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I felt meh
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- Work went okay, switching projects yet again tomorrow
- Just got very morose at the end of the day about how the past week or two has unfolded personally. My vacation next week is not what I wanted it to be because of weather it seems
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I felt rad
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- Finally got the Bulgogi egg & cheese bagel from Between the Bagel, every bit as good as I heard.
- Browns lost a heartbreaker, but at least it was a great game to watch!
- First time outside post COVID, it’s so nice out there!
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I felt good
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- Very lazy day inside
- Accidentally broke our couch
- Went down a rabbit hole on /r/HermanCainAward and don’t know how to feel. On the one hand, the people kinda have it coming and it’s satisfying to see it play out. On the other, it’s very sad for everyone else around them and maybe I shouldn’t take joy in that. But also, I can’t look away.
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I felt good
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- First day back at work after my short illness. I was able to fix something I broke last week so it was nice to get closure there.
- Really enjoying the show, On The Verge. All the NIMBYs in the show are the worst in Larry David sort of way.
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I felt meh
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- Took another day off because I was feverish
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I felt awful
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- Stayed in bed all day because I was sick
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I felt bad
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- Tested positive for the rona 🤬
- Symptoms have been pretty mild, tho I haven’t been able to work and have been sleeping all day
- Successfully rescheduled our vacation to when we should be better
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I felt bad
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- Had to deal with a runny nose & headaches all day 🤬
- Made a quick Rosh dish and played some indie folk with Hebrew singing. It was nice to learn more about it
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I felt meh
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- Another day almost fully inside, so boring here.
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I felt good
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- Stayed inside and watched college football 🏈
- Rachel is pretty sick and slept and coughed most of the day
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I felt good
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- Half day of work in which I got all the things I wanted done!
- Walked around outside for a bit
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I felt good
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- 🍜
- 🌿
- Had the energy and focus to get a lot of work done today. A lot less distractions.
- Made cacio e pepe for dinner, was very delicious
😖
I felt awful
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 📺
- 🕹
- Hit a burnout wall yesterday and had trouble functioning
- I’m really enjoying that Jon Bois history of the Atlanta Falcons series on YouTube.
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 📺
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 🌿
- 🌞
- It’s not a lot of fun splitting my focus between two projects at work. Maybe it will get better now that an end date is in sight.
- Made a delicious garlic pasta for dinner, so flavorful but light!
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🥡
- 🕹
- Just kinda puttered through the workday. Wish I was still on vacay.
😕
I felt meh
- 🥩
- 📺
- 🥡
- ✈️
- 🌞
- Traveled back to NYC
- Finished The White Lotus, sorta cheesy but I liked it
😀
I felt good
- 🥩
- 💆♂️
- 🛒
- 🌞
- Celebrated my sister’s birthday!
- Terrible birthday dinner with my sister, it was like being on Kitchen Nightmares.
- My sister liked her present (Spirited Away merch)
- Got some nice tshirts from Savers.
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🛒
- 🏃♂️
- 🌞
- We went to my cousins wedding!
- Got to see some of my extended family which is nice
- My mom and I had a decent talk late night about serious things
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🍜
- ✈️
- 🌞
- Traveled to Ohio. Flight went smoothly and I got to see my mom.
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🧑🍳
- 🌿
- Last full day of work before I go on a lil vacay to Ohio
- Packing was fun, will be interesting to share a suitcase with Rachel
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🥡
- We shipped the last big iteration of the project I’ve spent most of the year on!!! I think it looks real nice.
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 🌞
- Had a great seafood dinner with Hillary & Hochi
- First day of work without AW went smoothly, hopefully we can keep the intensity up!
😕
I felt meh
- 🥩
- 📺
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- Rainy day inside, cooked a nice dinner of sausage and gnocchi that was very mild.
😕
I felt meh
- 🥩
- 🥡
- 🕹
- 💆♂️
- Had a 5 hour driving class that I took from my bed on my iPad. Now to schedule a road test a lesson and get my license!
- Was kinda mopey all day and played games
😀
I felt good
- 🥩
- 🥡
- 👯♂️
- 💆♂️
- Took the day off, didn’t do much, just recharged
- Played D&D with Hayden and friends. I got to be a goblin union organizer that helped them with their quest while also taking their money.
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- Finished the thing at work, I feel unburdened
- Koan came over and we drank wine and did tarot!
😣
I felt bad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🥡
- Ugh work was very annoying
- I’m taking a surprise and forced Friday off
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 👯♂️
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Went to a live show all about memes with Kris. It was very well done and silly but also educational.
- Work went okay, we didn’t ship the thing but we will tomorrow
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Had a delicious and filling dinner of Korean BBQ with Hilary and Hochi. It’s nice to make new friends and I cannot wait to eat at Hochi’s restaurant!
- Work went okay, was nice make my counts add up and will be nice to start something new.
😀
I felt good
- 🧑🍳
- 🥡
- 🕹
- 🍜
- 🌿
- 💆♂️
- 🛒
- Very lazy Sunday, played games all day while recovering from last night.
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 🧹
- 🥡
- 👯♂️
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- We held our housewarming party! It was so nice to see everyone and they brought us a bunch of liquor!
- Our apartment is so clean!
- I finally got to ask Anne questions about the yoga class I’ve been overhearing for over a year now. It was so enlightening!
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧹
- 🥡
- Cleaned our apartment in preparation of our housewarming tomorrow
- Migration is done, can’t wait for this to be finished
- My new chair came and it looks so nice
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🥡
- 👯♂️
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Got a new tattoo on my leg!
- Work went okay, a little nervous and not making sense about some stuff and spinning my wheels on others, but that’s the way it is sometimes
- Called my dad for his 60th birthday, he’s so funny
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 🕹
- 🍜
- 🌞
- Really good outdoor therapy appointment. Relationships are like elastic: sometimes they stretch but they don’t need to break
- First of the no meeting Wednesdays at work. Was kinda cool to focus all day, tho I don’t have a lot of meetings as it stands
😣
I felt bad
- 🏚
- 📺
- 🧑🍳
- 🕹
- 🍜
- 🌿
- Ugh migration at work is going slowly but basically done
- Made a delicious feta pasta with corn
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🥡
- 🕹
- 🍜
- Finished up some lingering issues at work, back to more fun things tomorrow, including a migration!
- Was generally tired all day
- Sorta digging playing Breath of the Wild on Master Mode, the enemies are very tough
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 🧹
- 👫
- 🥡
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Newman’s wedding was very fun!
- Spent most of the day deep cleaning my bathroom and the kitchen in preparation for next Saturday
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🏃♂️
- 🌞
- Had my first driving lesson, my class went good with lots of 3 point turns and parallel parking
- Drank so much coffee and walked around Astoria a bunch
- Had a fun Karaoke night with Kris & co. Got Korean corn dogs that was so good
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 📺
- 🥡
- 🍜
- Had some good wins to cap the week off with.
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- It was nice to get drinks with people after work
- One more day until the weekend!
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 🌞
- Nice call with Hayden to prepare for the D&D night in 2 weeks
- Finished up my smoothness tweaks, site loads so good now
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🥡
- 🕹
- 🍜
- Work went okay, hard to iterate quickly when you need to debug compiled versions of your application.
- Made a ginger noodle soup, was just okay
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 👫
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Went to the Pink Siifu show, wooooow what a show!
- Mission Chinese 💯💯💯
😀
I felt good
- 🧑🍳
- 🕹
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- Very lazy day, slept in late and played games most of the day.
- Made a nice crispy gnocchi dish
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 📚
- 💆♂️
- 🛒
- 🌞
- Amazing day with friends
- “Once you go Greek, you can’t walk for a week” — Greek lady at the bakery
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 👫
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Went to a delightful improv show with my old improv teacher. Got to meet a lot of improv people that were very friendly.
- Sorta finished up this thing at work.
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 📺
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- I made an incredible roasted cauliflower salad for dinner. I cannot stop thinking about it.
- Catching up on Detroiters, what a wacky show.
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🥡
- 📚
- 👨💻
- 🌞
- Work went okay, got a little distracted with deploying things, but at least things got done and I can focus on the task at hand.
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 👫
- 🌞
- Went to the Joe Pera comedy show. Loved his bit about space law. All the comedians were good EXCEPT a dude that was trying to channel angry Tim Robinson energy without any jokes.
- Spent the day localizing our checkout process.
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🍜
- 📚
- 👨💻
- Personal site updates are really coming together, gonna be a slog to figure the outstanding issues tho
- Work went okay, finished up the Gatsby source thing I was working on, a little disappointed in how I turned out, but that’s the way it is sometimes
- Nice night alone as Rachel is at a comedy show
😀
I felt good
- 🥩
- 📺
- 🧑🍳
- 🕹
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- Relaxing day alone in the apartment. Played some games and generally chilled all day
🥳
I felt rad
- 🧹
- 🥡
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- Spent the day cleaning. Rachel completely reorganized the fridge with new containers, which is exciting.
- Went to the Jackson Hole diner in our neighborhood for the first time. It was just okay. I liked the vibe and the food was alright, but Mini Star on 30 Ave is still the best.
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Had a fun trip to the DMV and got my Learners Permit. We thought we had booked appointments at the same time (we had) but didn’t realize we got them at different DMVs in Flushing. Was a little dramatic but it worked out in the end.
- Got a very delicious black sugar coffee boba in Flushing. So unbelievably good that I could write for days about it.
- Had a delightful time hanging out with Chris, Steph, Brad and Nick. Saw a musical comedy show that was more interesting that I thought it would be. AND I GOT TO MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH TODD BARRY!!!
- Work was still stressful because of the Cowboy devops’ing from last week. Site broke multiple times in trying to fix it. All worked out in the end ugh
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- Work was long and a little scary at the end
- Cooked all evening to distract myself from work anxiety
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🥡
- 👯♂️
- 👨💻
- Work was a mixed bag. I did get to start on making a Gatsby source which is fun.
- Had a delightful call with my sister about redesigning my site. I think I have the bones of a palette and fonts. Worked late on making applying some it. I think it’s looking nicer already, thought I have a way to go.
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 👨💻
- Finished up the contact form I was working on, excited to start the next thing tomorrow which is a Gatsby source
- Started redesigning my site. Think I’m going to enlist my sister’s help to figure out colors/fonts tomorrow
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 🍜
- 🌿
- 👨💻
- Work went okay when I could focus on my tasks at hand
- Wrote another cooking blog post
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🕹
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Spent the day cooking. I made my fancy burgers and a cherry pie.
- Played more FF9
😀
I felt good
- 🥡
- 🕹
- 💆♂️
- Very lazy day, played games all day
🥳
I felt rad
- 👯♂️
- 🌞
- Went to yoga teacher Anne’s birthday party, was a very good time and met some new people.
- Got street meat from the popular place in Little Egypt, was pretty good. Are it while I watched I Think You Should Leave.
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🌞
- Work was very melancholy. I got some work done and finished this tiny project that took way too long IMHO but whatever.
- Had a drink or two at the bar downstairs alone and thought about stuff that’s coming up.
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 🛒
- 🌞
- There was a Twitter trend today where people bragged about themselves without undercutting the brag. I tried to do it in my mind and I got extremely anxious in a way that I can’t describe. I feel that all my accomplishments aren’t mine and that I’m not very good at things. I need to figure out where that anxiety is coming from.
- Picked up our new plates + some flowers when I ran errands today
- Made these lil lamb patties that we ate with cucumber yogurt soup which was filling and refreshing. I also made cinnamon vegan ice cream, which I think will be a hit at the birthday party tomorrow
- One more day until the weekend!
😣
I felt bad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🥡
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 📚
- Work is just moving so fast but also not at all that it’s making me a little dizzy. Just have to make it the next 2 days.
- Nice call with Jonathan tonight
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🧑🍳
- 🍿
- 🌿
- Database woes appear to be solved. Someone on the support team thanked me for a feature I shipped today.
- Watched the new Frontline documentary on the Fed & QE. I need to think about it more, but I now have mixed feelings on parts of the bailouts
- Made a cold cucumber yogurt soup, it was pretty good
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 🍜
- 🌿
- 🛒
- Work went okay, spent most of the day chasing database issues. Maybe they are gone, maybe they aren’t, only time will tell.
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Nice day exploring Astoria with Rachel and Chelsa
- The weekend is never long enough
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Absolutely amazing day outside. Hung out with Kris & company on Governors Island. Rode bikes and drank, overall great time.
- Database upgrade went okay
- Cookies & potato salad were big hits at the picnic
😣
I felt bad
- 🏚
- 🧑🍳
- 🌿
- Work was long and annoying. Spent a few hours fighting nginx’s reverse proxy for no reason. Have to wake up at 6am tomorrow to help with a DB upgrade.
😣
I felt bad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🕹
- 🍜
- Was slightly hungover all day, went through the motions at work, can’t wait for this week to be over.
- Made a delicious chickpea spinach pasta, perfectly spiced and salted
😀
I felt good
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 🌞
- 💼
- Had fun back in the office, was nice to see everyone again. Also nice to not have to type everything out.
- Team dinner was fun
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 📚
- 👨💻
- Work went okay, feel like I’m running in circles a little bit, but I’m def getting things done.
🥳
I felt rad
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 🌿
- 📚
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Another delightful day in paradise. Made a peaches n cream pie and spent most of the day reading.
- Ugh guess I gotta go to work tomorrow 😭
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 📺
- 🧑🍳
- 👫
- 🍜
- 📚
- 💆♂️
- 🛒
- 🌞
- Beautiful day for a picnic in the park! Spent a few hours there reading and looking at dogs.
- Started watching the new season of Alone, such an intense show.
😀
I felt good
- 🥩
- 🍜
- 🍿
- 📚
- 💆♂️
- A normal Saturday where I cleaned the apartment and read all day.
- Got really good ramen for dinner and then walked for a bit. We got flowers for the table 🌼🌼🌼
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 📺
- 🕹
- 🍜
- 📚
- 💆♂️
- Super short work day!
- Spent the day playing games and reading. Finished the Seth Rogen book, now I’m on The Big Sleep
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- Work went well, I fixed a few mistakes from years past, excited for the half day tomorrow!
- Made a really good vinegar chicken with roasted peaches and lemony couscous
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🍜
- Little bit of a frustrating day at work. I have a lot of exciting things in the hopper but I’m struggling to get them out.
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 🌞
- Made nachos for dinner with queso, turned out great, super easy dinner for a weeknight
- FAQ page is almost done and I spent the evening making a super slow but important page like 100x faster. Feels good!
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🍜
- 🌿
- 👨💻
- 🌞
- Went for a nice long walk after dinner. Saw the power plant 😂 and some nice houses with lawns 🤤
- Wrote up a new cooking blog post
- Work went okay, FAQ is coming along nicely, tho it responds a little slow
🥳
I felt rad
- 📺
- 🧹
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 🌿
- 💆♂️
- 🛒
- 🌞
- Spent all day cooking. I made hot sauce shrimp + cheesey polenta and a cherry slab pie, both turned out fantastic and I’ll be writing up a blog post tomorrow on it.
- The apartment is mopped, so clean!
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 🧹
- 🥡
- 👯♂️
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Went to a Mets game with Alex! Mets won and Rachel is now a fan! Such a beautiful day and the seats were great. Next time, we’ll get seats on the 3rd baseline so we are in the shade.
- Deep cleaned the apartment for the first time in a month or two. So much more livable.
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 📺
- 🥡
- 🍿
- Work went great, now it’s time for the weekend!
- Made Rachel watch a silly horror movie, it was fun for me but she had split feelings
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🥡
- 🍜
- 🛒
- 👨💻
- Work went okay, I feel relived and cannot wait for the weekend
- Did some more dumb site stuff, like you can now over over my last.fm cover and see the artists. Really dumb stuff that only I will care about
- C’mon weekend!
😣
I felt bad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🥡
- Feeling a little aimless at work today, got some stuff done, but feeling a little unmoored
- Got roped into something at work I knew nothing about, looked stupid for like 8 hours, but I got it done I guess 🤷
- Need to stop ordering delivery and cook a meal tomorrow
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 📺
- 🥡
- 👯♂️
- 🌞
- Launched all the things I wanted to, seems to have gone very smoothly! A weight has been lifted off of my shoulders.
- Got drinks with Team Vax of AMAN. Everyone is so nice and interesting!
- Late night kati rolls were very good
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🥡
- 👯♂️
- 👨💻
- Work went well, tho we still didn’t launch, which was a little annoying
- Wrote a blog post on my failure to make that page speed shield project
- Had a delightful conversation with my dad, so happy he’s doing well!
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 👯♂️
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Beach day with Tresa & Jen. Got very sunburned, but the Rockaways were worth it!
- Took the ferry ⛴ a few times, finally saw the statue of the liberty 🗽
- Had a very annoying dinner at a taco place near the beach, they lost our order, fuck them they suck
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🛒
- 🌞
- Absolutely fantastic day! Got our new plates from the restaurant supply store, got a sandwich & beer at Astoria B&C, and got a fantastic omakase dinner at Sushi on Me! That sushi was so good and the staff so friendly and the drinks so plentiful!
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🥡
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 👨💻
- Work went smoothly, tho the thing I wanted to launch didn’t go
- Had a nice dinner with Toni & Lisa. So much Greek seafood!
- Made a little progress on some open source stuff I have on the back burner, maybe I finish that up this weekend?
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 👨💻
- Work went really well, very exited for all the launching tomorrow!
- Did some work on my personal site, I made it so that a modified time stamp for blog posts are pulled from Git commit history. Put that in the pile of things to extract into their own libraries.
- Made a really good spaghetti carbonara. My secret was caramelizing some red onion with the bacon.
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 📺
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- What even am I doing anymore?
- Nice set of drinks and food and discussion with AP! Good to be around human beings again!
- Work went okay, I think I have this Gatsby upgrade stuff in a corner and I’m excited to get it out for the lighthouse scores! But also it’s awesome and I’m excited for some A/B testing
- So much of my job is rooted in me assuming I do nothing but in reality I do a lot. How do I feel better about my work?
- Rachel and I had great talk about our future. She’s onboard for my misplaced ambitions, hopefully I don’t let her down!
- I hung a wine aunt sign!
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- Finished development on the A/B testing thing I was working on, can’t wait to roll it out tomorrow!
- Got Rachel to agree to a vacation in Miami in September!
- Made cold kimchi noodles and filet for dinner, so spicy but so good
😣
I felt bad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 👨💻
- Fought Google Optimize all day, feel beat up by it. Why can’t anything Google API related be easy!?
😀
I felt good
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 🌿
- 💆♂️
- 🛒
- Went out to lunch at the ramen spot, had a delicious cold soba that I can’t describe tho it did leave me a lil queasy
- Pretty relaxing day of chores, I guess
🥳
I felt rad
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 👯♂️
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Had a very fun picnic with Hayden and REDACTED. It was perfect picnic weather, not too hot, but not cold.
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 📺
- 🥡
- 🍜
- I think I finished the little upgrade task I was working on
- It’s the weekend, it’s gonna be a relaxing one
😕
I felt meh
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🧑🍳
- 🛒
- Day was going good until I decided to cook beans without soaking that took 4 hours when it was supposed to take 2 😭
- Had a good therapy call, I think we got to the bottom of how I feel about my ADHD
🥳
I felt rad
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 🍜
- 👨💻
- 🌞
- Work went pretty well, wiring up A/B test will be interesting
- Made a Go app that combines Google Page Insights with shields.io so that you can show how fast your site is on your GitHub repo
😀
I felt good
- 🏚
- 🥩
- 📺
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 📚
- Work went really good today, got some boring stuff off my plate, time to make an A/B testing framework tomorrow!
- Made pork meatballs with peaches and rice noodles. Turned out pretty good, will let the peaches ripen more next time and rethink the noodle approach.
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I felt meh
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- 👨💻
- Work was very distracting today, kept getting pulled in different directions and I don’t really fell like I got much done.
- New guy started, seems super nice
- Wrote my first lifestyle blog post, maybe I’ll like writing about my cooking?
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I felt rad
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- 📺
- 🧑🍳
- 🍜
- 💆♂️
- 🛒
- 🌞
- Spent the day cooking, maybe I’ll write up a post about it tomorrow?
- Finished Mare of Eastown, Kate Winslet is so good, but the ending was a little meh in terms of the final twist
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I felt rad
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- 🥡
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- 💆♂️
- 🌞
- Went to the park and read for a bit. Met some nice people that I randomly was able to help out with the tongs I had just bought.
- Rachel went upstate so I was alone for a bit.
- We had a long talk about my ADHD discoveries / discomfort, might has a path forward about that, I dunno.
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I felt meh
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- Struggled with work today, hard to keep focused on the task at hand. Had a breakthrough on an unrelated thing later in the day that will increase performance by quite a bit!
- Started Mare of Easttown, love the Philly accents.
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I felt good
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- 👨💻
- Work went very smoothly, hopefully there is some good news tomorrow.
- I keep working late on my personal site for no reason. I think it’s a way to deal with some unacknowledged anxiety or boredom. I need to figure that out and maybe a better outlet for that energy.
- Whipped together a very nice chili crisp shrimp dish. It was very easy with the chili crisp I got on Instagram.
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I felt rad
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- 👨💻
- Work went well, finally moving fast again it feels like. So nice when something big gets off your plate and you can start fresh.
- Made some cool changes to my site around emojis, let’s hope it works 🤞
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I felt good
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- 🛒
- 👨💻
- First day back at work, I think the dust has been shaken off.
- Finished style updates for my site, time to promote something tomorrow.
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I felt good
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- 🍿
- 📚
- 💆♂️
- 🏃♂️
- 🌞
- Last day in the Berkshires, weather just got good as we were leaving. Had 🍔
- Enjoyed the new Bo Burnham special on the train