Daily Review - 2020/08/25

What’s your chief aim for today

Recover from waking up from 03:00 AM from being woken up from operational issue
Write and publish one piece on this blog
Review Inbox and Important projects sitting in OmniFocus
Put in 1 hour study session before and after work for advanced operating systems
Chip away at writing one-pager design for a prototype for new feature at work

You cannot geld the human race

Geld – verb (v) – to deprive of vitality or vigor

Having a steady income and job that I enjoy despite being in the midst of COVID-19

Tired as I type this out since I got paged out of bed for 03:00 AM for a NOP (no operation) issue at work

Woke up naturally (i.e. without alarm) at around 04:15
Felt good about being able to connect the dots between theory and practice (when reviewing out to generate virtual private numbers using a BITMASK and SHIFT operations)
Followed my morning Routine (e.g. walk dogs at local park, blended fruit and vegetable smoothie, warm up chai, write)
Pulled into Discount Tires for scheduled appointment to replace punctured front left tire
Finished reading chapter on paging systems while waiting for tired to be replaced
Recorded a short little melody and harmony on my iPhone while playing guitar for Elliott and Jess during lunch
Ad-hoc shopping at Target to pick up size 4 diapers, bottle scrubber for the kitchen, plastic hooks to hang the broom, stasher reusable zip lock bags
Ordered and picked up sushi for dinner (avocado rolls, cucumber rolls, croquette and vegetable mini tempera udon soup)
Chopped up fresh vegetables and stored them away in the (just purchased) stasher bags
Cut up Jess’s recently purchased book, scanning the book using my Fujitsu IX1500 ScanSnap and then converting the document in mobi format using calibre (new open source software I discovered while searching stack overflow)