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Stardate: 20200812.2338 | |
Location: Game Room / New Office | |
Input Device: AlphaSmart dana.wireless | |
Audio: Conference Call banter | |
Visual: Makeshift office in game room, vendor controlling remote server | |
Emotional State: tired, surviving, skating on the edge of burnout. | |
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It looks like I spoke too soon in my last entry. This week has been crazy | |
as well and I have not been able to fully decompress. Today, my day | |
started at 4AM, ended at 1PM, slept for a bit, and then started again at | |
10PM and finishing at 7AM. We have an application going live at work | |
and it needs to be implemented after hours. At least I have most of | |
Thursday to rest and have Friday off to rest even more at the beach! | |
Yay, long weekend! | |
Man, I hate these long stretches of work and funny schedules. It totally | |
throws me off these days. All of my bandwidth goes towards work and | |
anything left goes to the family. Not much time for myself, which I wrote | |
about previously. I think that when I was younger, I was able to handle | |
these types of schedules and bounce back much better than I do these | |
days. Boring routine is better for me. | |
This past weekend I evicted my son from the game room and migrated | |
his gaming rig to his bedroom. Since I will be working from home now | |
on a more permanent basis, I need to set up my own work area. I did | |
share my office with my wife since I was only working from home once | |
a week, but now that things have changed, I cannot share the office with | |
her. It is just too distracting and she is on the phone all of the time | |
since she works in sales. It gets really bad when we are both on the | |
phone at the same time. I really need my own work environment with a | |
door so I decided to take over the game room. | |
My son was excited to have his computer in his room. I was able to use | |
one of those powerline ethernet adapters instead of running a new line | |
to his room. The speed is good enough. | |
Since this COVID-19 thing started, I have been moving computers around, | |
setting up and tearing down work spaces, searching for parts and cables, | |
cleaning work areas, etc. It has been a bit much for me and I hope things | |
will settle down soon so I can get back to computing. | |
By the time all is said and done with this work day, I'm gonna have to | |
flush all the coffee out of my system and actually sleep. I've been running | |
on coffee for way too long and body is hating me. Sometimes that's what | |
you gotta do to survive the work. I love coffee but don't like it when I | |
get to this point where my gut is screaming at me and I gotta shave my | |
tongue. It's just not enoyable anymore. | |
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