Just realised itโs the return of Formula One this month! ๐ฅณ๐
My Fastmail spam filters seems to have turned themselves up. Found a load of legitimate email in it recently, including notifications that the domain I use with Fastmail is up for renewal.
Today is the start of another long weekend, I have today and Monday off work again. I plan to spend some time painting, but Iโm being drawn into looking at some alternatives to Wordpress to power my website and I can feel myself being sucked into a redesign.
Considering going back to Things to handle all my Tasks, or maybe Reminders, I feel like Roam Research for tasks has me missing things.
We’re supposed to be implementing a no calls or meetings policy at work on a Wednesday afternoon, but I’ve spent all of mine doing just that. I feel very drained.
Today is a dark mode day I think. It’s very grey and cold outside, the sun of the weekend feels like a distant memory as I sit here at my desk working by spotlight.
Routines
On my lunch break today as I sat reading some RSS feeds, I came across a [Daily Blogging Challenge] that started on the first of March. As I clicked through to the organising site to find out more I discovered that each day they are sharing a prompt word that everyone taking part should use to kickstart their post for the day. I'm not going to commit to taking part everyday, but I liked the prompt from 1st March, [routine].
Routines have always been a bit of a comfort to me, mostly they just happen and I realise that I've settled in to one without considering what I'm doing. My morning routine for example is one that I've realised I've settled in to without really considering.
I wake up with my alarm around 07:00 and spend the next 45 minutes or so waking up. That involves a bit of snoozing, a bit of morning messaging, and a bit of bumbling around on the internet. Then I get out of bed and head towards the shower.
I'm usually dressed and ready to start my day by around 08:20. The next step is a glass of juice and my meds, followed by a sit down in my chair and a bit of time to have a quiet time with whatever reading plan I'm using in the Youversion app at the moment.
Around 08:40 I'll turn on my Mac and head to the kitchen to make coffee and sort out some food for myself before I settle at my desk to contrive the days business.
I didn't realise this was a routine I'd fallen in to until I came across Pablo Picasso's daily schedule and it started me on path looking in to the routines of other famous creators, something I'll be looking into and sharing here.
Always with the accidental screenshots when trying to turn up the volume on my iPhone ๐
The painting continues to progress, lots of repainting things but itโs slowly starting to look a little like me ๐๐จ
Realised that I can now post from Gluon instead of the official Micro.Blog app. Itโs a little nicer to use on the iPhone and has some features not in the official client.