Eli Gundry

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.

I felt rad

🏚 🥩 👯‍♂️ 🍜 📚 🌞
  • Funemployment, day 4
  • Might have landed a job already??
  • First day of Advent of Code was easy and fun
  • Gym was fun, read a book at a bar, and got a slick hair cut.

I felt rad

🥩 🧑‍🍳 🍜 🏃‍♂️ 🌞
  • Funemployment, day 3
  • Woke up very late cause it was a late night last night.
  • Had an improv class that was super fun. It was nice to be in the moment.
  • Too my time making dinner. Went to Eatly to pick up orzo and guanciale for an orzo carbonara, which was prepared as Rachel got home and we had a lil dinner together.

I felt rad

🥩 👯‍♂️ 🍜 💆‍♂️ 🏃‍♂️ 🌞
  • Funemployment, Day 2
  • Struggled with split squats at the gym. I need forgive myself more easily when I’m learning new gym things.
  • Spent the day in Brooklyn. Walked the length of Prospect Park, got lunch at Ras Plant Based, went to Judaica store, saw the Jay Z exhibit at the Brooklyn library, read for a few hours and then played chess late into the night with Kory. All around great day!

I felt rad

👯‍♂️ 💆‍♂️ 👨‍💻 🏃‍♂️ 🌞
  • Funemployment, Day 1
  • Did some fun coding around syncing shell history to all machines
  • Met up with Alex to catch up, so happy to hear he got married and is doing well!
  • Went to a lock picking meetup at Hack Manhattan. Sadly, the lock picker didn’t show up so I didn’t get to learn anything BUT it’s a cool space and I should do some thinking if I want to make something there.

I felt good

🏚 🍜
  • Last day of work at Chord. Felt like the last day of camp. Lots of goodbye calls and I cried a little bit. But, this is for the best and I’m looking to an action packed month of funemployment before searching in January.

I felt rad

🥩 📺 🍜 👨‍💻
  • Lazy day where I did some fun coding. Getting that Astro component where it needs to be!
  • Tomorrow is my last day of work, gonna be like the end of camp 🥲

I felt rad

🥩 📺 👯‍♂️ 🍜 💆‍♂️ 🌞
  • Went to Mt Kisco to meetup with my sister and her wife! Ate at the Mt Kisco Diner, got Cinnamon Toast Crunch French toast, so tasty. We wandered around for a bit and did some shopping. It’s so nice that they live closer to us now.
  • OSU lost but it didn’t bring me down. Still watched some great football on the way home.

I felt rad

🏚 🥩 📺 🧑‍🍳 👯‍♂️ 🍜 💆‍♂️
  • Friendgiving! Made a whole turkey with the fixings that turned out close to perfect! Carving a turkey is hard tho. Olivia, Anjie and Erwin came over and it was nice to see them.

I felt good

🥩 🧹 🧑‍🍳 🥡 🍜 💆‍♂️ 🛒 🌞
  • Prepared for the Friendsgiving tomorrow by cleaning and precooking
  • Watched the Please Don’t Destroy movie, how silly and fun

I felt meh

🏚 🕹 🏃‍♂️
  • Last day of work before Thanksgiving slowness.
  • Binged all of the “You Didn’t See Nothin” podcast. Such an interesting narrative and story.

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🏃‍♂️
  • Wrapped up my last big PR at work, now to document and wrap up some stuff.
  • Made Korean fire chicken for dinner BUT I forgot to make rice so it was too spicy with rice to cut it
  • Woken up by Pager Duty at 2am, fun fun fun

I felt meh

🏚 👨‍💻
  • Leftover soups made my guts go nuts
  • Work was a slog, but we’re getting to the end in a week
  • Things in the job search market are looking relatively positive compared to Q1
  • Refactored the astro-fontaine package to a point where I can share it soon on their integrations page

I felt good

🧹 🌿 💆‍♂️
  • Cleaned the kitchen in advance of Friendsgiving. We’re gonna eat all the leftovers in the freezer this week so we have Tupperware 🙃
  • Got a lil snippy in the evening because Rachel kept leaving messes in the freshly cleaned kitchen

I felt good

📺 👯‍♂️ 🍜 💆‍♂️ 🏃‍♂️ 🌞
  • Gym! Saturday energy is different
  • Rachel went upstate while I relaxed and watched football
  • Went to Uyen Nguyen’s exhibition opening at the Museum of Math OMG so good!
  • Jamburrito at Mexicue!

I felt meh

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🍜 🍿 💆‍♂️
  • Work was so so. Lots of goodbye calls. Didn’t get much done tho 🤷
  • Made a carrot risotto and pork chops with a habanero quick pickle that was to die for. Not bad for a pantry/freezer meal!
  • Watched The Wedding Singer, that movie is so beautifully shot and shirts that loose should make a comeback

I felt good

🏚 🥩 📺 🧑‍🍳 🍜 🏃‍♂️
  • Gym was fun
  • Another day closer to quitting. Trying to wrap stuff up, but it’s going slowly
  • Life has been crazy and I haven’t posted for a bit. I put in notice at my job and my last day will be the 27th.
  • I’m quitting because I need to be back in office in Manhattan and this job is never going to meet the professional expectations that I need. Also, I need to get back to a company with a short sales flow. Learned a lot about what to do and what not do that I will treasure forever.
  • What led up to this, though, was poorly spec’d project that I feel like I failed in leading. Everyone disagrees with that assessment, and to a certain degree it’s true, but things I could have controlled, I would have done differently. I also put in a lot of work after hours and put too much on my back.
  • I’m looking forward to taking a month off, doing some new things, and searching in January. I didn’t get a chance to take time off last job search cycle and I have enough in the bank to live it up a bit.

I felt good

🏚 🥩
  • Finally feeling better after being sick the past few days.
  • What we need to do for launch on my current project is rapidly coming into focus. It’s nerve wracking but also exciting. I’m probably gonna spread myself too thin.

I felt bad

📺 💆‍♂️
  • Spent the day in bed. Think it’s a reaction to the 💉 and I’ll bounce back tomorrow.

I felt rad

🥩 📺 👯‍♂️ 🍜 💆‍♂️ 🌞
  • Visited the Whitney with Kory & Sydney and then walked around the west side. Little Island is cute yet underwhelming.

I felt rad

🏚 🧑‍🍳 👫 🌿
  • Lots of good stuff at work. Was able to get my way without much effort. People seem happy with me.
  • Lil at home happy hour! Made shishito peppers for an after work snack with a shot of tequila.
  • Watched The Thing, what an excellent movie!

I felt good

🏚 🥩 👫 🍜
  • Woke up pretty hung over, yet I powered through! Stuff is lining up really good.
  • Got pushed during therapy. She’s not gonna let me coast.
  • Lil date night at the Pomroy. Prime rib was mid, but the vibes were good and OMG that old bro that was triggered by the Phillies, so funny.

I felt rad

🏚 🎶 🍜 🌿 🌞
  • Work went really well, I feel like I have a few personal wins as well as some major team wins! I have sorta taken away… be bold, stay in structure most of the time, but also do you. BIZZZZZZZ SPEAK RISE AND GRIND!!!!
  • Saw Garbage Day live in Bushwick. It was a solid live show with content I had seen before, but structured really well for a standing crowd show. Enjoyed all the emo content!
  • Logged on to work to discover a bunch of unexpected but very welcome work to just be done. The team is humming!
  • I’m still in XMHell with Magento updates 😭

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🍜 🌞
  • Haven’t posted in a bit because I’ve been getting over some burnout, which I’m happy to say that I’ve gotten over!
  • Took a vacation in September to California that was a lot of fun. Nice to get away from it all with Rachel and see parts of the world we haven’t seen before.
  • I decided to step up at work and volunteer to take on more of a leadership role in running our client work projects. So far, it’s been a fun and new challenge. I’m realizing that, while leading is not always comfortable, I can take the smoke and enjoy the pressure sometimes.
  • Rachel and I are doing well. Everyday a little better.
  • Thinkjng a lot about whether to continue this journaling in public practice. Ever since Twitter killed impressions on this feed it’s been less motivating. I think I should keep it up tho as it’s nice to look at.
  • I have had like no time or for personal projects. Hopefully that changes as the weather gets cooler.

I felt rad

🏚 📺 🧑‍🍳 🌿 💆‍♂️
  • Work is getting a lil exciting now that I get to write code on a project that I’ve been building in my mind for the past few weeks.
  • Football is back, happy to see the Lions winning
  • Therapy went great, spent most of the session Meetup planning social things. Need to hit that well more.

I felt meh

🏚 👯‍♂️ 🌿 🌞
  • Hung out with Chris after work to shoot the shit. Need to do that more often. Got a lil too drunk tho.
  • Work is work is work.

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🍜
  • Back to work. Waiting on the go ahead on a project. Silently working on another 🤷 Finding the silver linings.

I felt rad

🥩 👫 🍜 💆‍♂️ 🌞
  • Labor Day weekend! Paint & Pour! Williamsburg! Grimm! Relaxing!

I felt rad

🏚 🥩 🍜
  • Had a lil bit of a hangover from the free beers, but I powered through.
  • Starting to get into the new stuff at work. It’s my job to carry the load on these new projects and I feel like I need to get everyone enthusiastic about it. We can do these things, they may be hard, but it’s why they pay us money!
  • Rachel got a lil overwhelmed making salmon for dinner. She needs to do more prep before turning on the stove so she isn’t so rushed.

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🍜 💆‍♂️
  • Work was a lot more relaxing now that I’ve decided to call my own shots on starting projects that I see as helpful. Today, it was i18n in Next.js
  • Took my time and made a spicy and hearty lentil pasta for dinner. The flavor was amazing, I cooked them in chicken broth with okra, onions and garlic. Then I added some rotisserie chicken and spicy pasta sauce as I mixed in the pasta.

I felt bad

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🍜
  • Work was again… very confusing. Gonna chart my own course to get stuff rolling.
  • Talked to my sister for her birthday! So excited for her to move closer!
  • Scrapped together a dinner with rotisserie chicken, braised kale and boxed Mac and cheese.

I felt meh

🏚 🧑‍🍳 🍜 👨‍💻
  • Made a really nice salad with what was left in our fridge. Was it a pale imitation of a salad I had yesterday at Olelia? Yes but 🤫
  • The home page redesign for Album Mode is looking nice! Instead of marketing copy, it immediately recommends something. All I need is some modals and update some copy and I’m launching. Seriously this time. It’s time to deal with scaling issues instead of internal ones.
  • Work is what it is. For as dire of a time as it is, I was expecting it to be more interesting.

I felt meh

👫 🍜 🌿 💆‍♂️ 🌞
  • Took the week off from journaling cause shit was weird. Work has been simultaneously shitty but exciting but also a little bit of a let down. Also was a little sick half way through the week.
  • Today was excellent. Walked around Astoria a bunch. Got a flash deal possum tattoo. Went to an art fair. Had a nice dinner with Rachel. Listened to the Blowback podcast.
  • Here’s to a better week than last!

I felt meh

🏚 🥩 🍜 📚
  • Work was full of distractions. Best laid plans that are already spinning out and whatnot.
  • Worked late case Slack never sleeps.

I felt meh

🥩 🧑‍🍳 👯‍♂️ 🕹 🍜 💆‍♂️ 🌞
  • Weekend was good for recharging and preparing for the long week ahead. Weight on the shoulders, let’s go.
  • Took a lil bit of an anxiety walk that helped a little.

I felt meh

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🍜 👨‍💻
  • Work went not great at the beginning (pushed code to the wrong place in a terrible process and was yelled at) but the day got better when I had to rely on myself.
  • Made a delicious zucchini scampi. Always a winner in my book.
  • Started a lil side project to update zsh-history-substring-search to use histdb as it’s history source. I’m like 40% done with it and I think I can wrap it up this week.

I felt bad

🏚 🥩 🥡
  • Work was pretty terrible.
  • Just gonna alternate between numbness and morbidness about the whole work situation for probably the rest of the week.
  • I was just tired all day.

I felt rad

🏚 👫 👯‍♂️ 🍜 🌿 🌞
  • Double date with Julie & Will was pretty fun!
  • Cruising on like 3 different projects at once. I’m on my Newman Flow.

I felt good

🥩 🧑‍🍳 🍜 📚 💆‍♂️ 👨‍💻
  • Slept in and just had a lazy day
  • Made a lil more progress in updating some unit tests for the Spotify package. I’m thinking that I might simplify them in the future. Love the coverage, hate the boilerplate.
  • Braised cabbage in two cups of white wine with some chicken, absolute heaven over here.

I felt rad

🥩 👯‍♂️ 🍜 👨‍💻
  • Had brunch with Teresa. She’s so funny and we laughed a lot.
  • Wished my dad happy birthday. Love to hear about his old man puttering.
  • Stayed up really late coding, listening to music and a lil 🍃. A little trippy with all the lightning and thunder.

I felt rad

🏚 🥩 🍜 👨‍💻 🌞
  • Work is going swimmingly. Really hitting my stride and having fun.
  • Stayed up a little late working on my Vim config. Formatting is like 85% working now.

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🥡 🌞
  • Starting to get into this redesign project at work.
  • Took a meeting outside while eating a Souvlaki Lady sandwich.
  • Went to a comedy show, always fun to see Josh Gondleman perform.
  • Fell asleep quickly, nice change of pace.

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🍜 💆‍♂️
  • Started something new at work (a design of a portal). Gotta get myself excited about it as the comedown of a fun project is tricky.
  • Made the Thai smashed potatoes 🥔 with fish sauce for dinner. Always a winner and rarely any leftovers.

I felt rad

🏚 🥩 🍜
  • Launched my big project at work! It was a big JS to TS conversion project that was undertaken to roll out a new feature. Developing in that code base will now be a lot easier and hopefully our customers use it (eventually)
  • I was able to power through my sleepiness to get stuff done without be crabby.
  • Rachel and I unpacked the CSA box together this week. It eliminated a lot of stress and allowed us to plan was we went. Will need to repeat that.

I felt good

🏚 🌿 👨‍💻
  • Haven’t journaled in a few days because I was sick and slept most of the past 3 days.
  • Gonna ship my big thing tomorrow!!! Been a long time coming!
  • Redid my Vim setup with Lazy.nvim. I like it a lot more than packer AND in converting to it, I was able to master some keyboard shortcuts that were beguiling me!

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🥡 🍜
  • Worked late on squashing some Typescript bugs. I love that type of work, it’s little puzzles that require a lot of brute force.
  • Cooked corn and chicken for dinner. Was a little spicy and very delicious!

I felt good

🏚 👯‍♂️ 🍜 🌿 🌞
  • Did my shift at the Hellgate CSA, nice to mee neighbors and nerd out about produce
  • Work slog continues but in a good way
  • Lil drama around dinner being cooked

I felt meh

🏚 🍜 🌿
  • Everything is a slog right now work wise. The last 10% is the most boring, I suppose.
  • I really need to update my Vim setup. Some of the auto completion stuff is messed up lately. Really not looking forward to that tho.

I felt good

🧹 🧑‍🍳 👯‍♂️ 🍜 🌿 💆‍♂️
  • Cleaned the apartment and mopped the floor. Everything is so clean!
  • Had Olivia over for dinner, so nice to catch up with a friend!

I felt bad

🧹 🥡 🕹 🌿
  • Day was going great until I attempted to make goyza with frozen wrappers ☹️ I couldn’t get them to fold right and the repeated failures pushed me over my breaking point. I threw the bowl of filling into the sink, making it go everywhere. Spent 2 hours cleaning it up.
  • Did my first play through of Aviary Attorney. What a great homage to Ace Attorney. Going to try to get the other endings for sure.

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🕹 🍜
  • We cooked together!
  • Work went great!
  • Stayed up late, just chilling.

I felt rad

🏚 🧑‍🍳 🍜 🌿 📚
  • Yet another day in paradise at work. The bad thoughts can’t get to me if I’m having fun!
  • During therapy, we discussed how the CSA box is wrecking my relationship. It’s just too many veggies and not enough planning. WE ARE PLANNERS!
  • Worked too late cause I was having fun. Will pay for it tomorrow but whatever.

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🥡 🍜 📚
  • See the end of the tunnel on a big project at work, which feels great.
  • Improvised a weird dinner of gnocchi, roasted beets, and pesto with a cucumber salad together. Ended up pretty good, though.
  • Kinda slept walked through the day and was very muted by the end of it.

I felt good

🍜 🌿 👨‍💻
  • Made some great progress on side projects (Daylio uploads are working AND I got a nifty data display working on the album preview page in album-mode.party!)
  • Minor tiff at dinner. Probably on me for not helping unload the CSA.

I felt rad

🏚 👨‍💻
  • Haven’t posted in a bit cause I busted the Daylio uploading functionality
  • Work is going really good. I’m on two really fun, meaty and important projects, which is a nice change of pace.
  • Married life is getting better and better.

I felt good

🏚 👫 🌿 🌞
  • Had a dentist appointment (I’m their favorite patient cause I take good care of my teeth) and then met up with Rachel at Chelsea markets and had dinner.
  • Date night and we got home before the sun set!

I felt rad

🏚 👯‍♂️ 🌿 🌞
  • Work went okay, working on a tricky component that I’m struggling to get through.
  • Saw Brennan for the first time since pre pandemic! So nice to see that he is doing well!

I felt good

🥩 🧹 🧑‍🍳 🥡 🕹 🍜 💆‍♂️
  • Weekend was very chill. Just stayed in, played games and chilled.

I felt good

🏚 📺 🧑‍🍳 🍜 🌿
  • Made a green sauce / goat cheese Dutch baby for dinner. OMG so good!
  • Too many meetings.
  • We’re going to introduce retros into our marriage weekly.
  • Finished The Bear season 2. Loved the Forks episode.

I felt good

🏚 🍜 🌿 👨‍💻
  • Really getting into the zone on this bundle / Typescript project at work. When it’s typed, it all makes sense.
  • Just chilling on the personal projects. Really want to wrap two of them up and start fresh on something new.

I felt rad

🥩 👯‍♂️ 🍜 💆‍♂️ 🌞
  • Really busy July 4th! Went to Brooklyn and had not one but two friend hangs!
  • Got Ethiopian for dinner! My favorite!

I felt rad

🏚 🥩 🍜 👨‍💻
  • Work went great. Had like no distractions and got to work on a fun Typescript project.
  • Stayed up late coding cause tomorrow is a holiday!

I felt good

🧹 👯‍♂️ 🕹 🍜 🌿 👨‍💻 🌞 💼
  • Took a bit of time off from journaling cause I was busy with coworkers in town and just got tired.
  • Overall, doing good. Cooking is going good. Zelda is good.
  • Being married is weird. Thinking a lot about what we owe each other now.

I felt bad

🏚 🧑‍🍳 🍜 🌞
  • Work went okay except one person was a jerk to me and I’m angry about.
  • Voting and CSA pickup went well.

I felt good

🥩 🌞 💼
  • Worked in a WeWork with some coworkers, was pretty fun, will do it again this week.
  • Got in bed early, which was a nice thing.

I felt good

🥩 🧑‍🍳 🍜 💆‍♂️
  • Recovery day from the anniversary party.
  • Made a Sicilian lentil pasta that was excellent. Also made a green sauce from all the left over herbs (and apples) from the CSA this week. It’s like a savory green juice!

I felt rad

🥩 👯‍♂️ 🍜 💆‍♂️ 👨‍💻 🌞
  • Bier & Cheese Collective’s anniversary party was great.
  • Woke up very late and had a lazy day.

I felt good

🏚 🥡 🌿 📚 👨‍💻
  • Had some fun meetings at work that have me jazzed
  • Got my site sorta running again, stuff is so wild.
  • Finished Someone, Somewhere szn 2. Not as good as the first, but understandable given the circumstances

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 📚
  • Work went better, tho I ended the day with a bunch of dread.
  • Spent way too long cooking and I made one part way too spicy. A rare strike out caused by me not tasting as I went ☹️

I felt meh

🏚 🥩 🍜 📚 👨‍💻
  • Days back at work are blending together. It’s okay tho. Caught a fun fastball at work.
  • Stayed up late coding and I hate it. It’s gotta stop.

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🧑‍🍳 🍜 📚 👨‍💻
  • First day back at work post vacation went pretty okay. Smashing my head against a little thing that I should have wrapped up soon.
  • Picked up our first CSA box. So many veggies! Made a risotto with greens and beans and a salad. Gonna be a veggie filled summer!
  • Side project stuff is going nowhere and somewhere at the same time.

I felt rad

🥩 📺 🧑‍🍳 👫 👯‍♂️ 🍜 🌿 💆‍♂️ 🛒 👨‍💻 ✈️
  • I’ve been off the grid getting married to the love of my life.
  • Wedding went perfectly, all the planning paid off. It was so nice to see all of our friends and family in one place.
  • Took the week off to enjoy ourselves. Went to Woodstock for a long weekend in a cabin, which was nice.

I felt good

🏚 🥩 📚 💆‍♂️
  • Spent the day debugging an annoying CI issue at work. Happy to have solved it, but also thankful that I no longer have to do dev ops more that 5% of the time.
  • The smoke was wild. Hopefully it blows over by the weekend.

I felt good

🏚 🧑‍🍳 🍜 🌿 👨‍💻
  • Today was the same as yesterday. Everything is a blur but I’m holding on.

I felt good

🏚 🥩 🍜 👨‍💻
  • I just keep aimlessly coding, both professionally and on personal projects. I feel like it’s calming stress somewhat but also… I’m getting somewhere.

I felt good

🥩 🧑‍🍳 🥡 🕹 🍜 💆‍♂️ 🛒
  • Recovery day!
  • Recreated my dinner from the previous night the night after. Orchette, broccoli rabe and spicy sausage in a zesty broth. So good.

I felt good

🧹 👯‍♂️ 🍜 🌿 💆‍♂️ 🌞
  • Continued deep cleaning our apartment and got a haircut
  • Went to Rachel’s college reunion. It’s nice to see and dance with her friends from back then!

I felt rad

🏚 🥩 🥡 👯‍♂️ 🌞
  • Work went okay, got some nice shout outs that I only sort of deserve.
  • Went to a party at Adam & Emily’s. Left with a set of placemats and a glass to crush at my wedding.