Dateline 9-3-2016

Today has managed to get away from my in a casual yet productive way.

I had to wake up nice and early to hitch a ride to the store to pick up some dog food and personal supplies. Since I've fallen back into a graveyard sleep schedule, due to late night app building sessions, it's become very hard to wake up before noon. This means that my schedule for the day has been a little out of whack, having woken to a single digit AM hour staring back at me from my clock.

It turned out that I woke extra early as my ride had errands to run before being able to taxi me around. Though I was tempted to roll over and fall back to sleep, I couldn't get my current app out of my mind so I stumbled over to my computer to get to work while I waited.

I ended up having to wait about an hour but also managed to get a lot done as I casually added bits and pieces of code to my project, not really concerned about perfection as I was just filling time and not fully focused on the matter at hand.

I eventually ventured out and got the dog some food and treats along with a snack or two to reward myself for learning a new trick or two of my own. When I returned I had the dog roll over and rewarded her with beggin' strips until her asthma acted up, which is a pathetically adorable site to see.

After that, I was torn between napping and working and was unable to commit to either.

I had too much on my mind to fall back to sleep, yet was too tired to fully focus on my project. This conflict of effort led me to continue to work at a casual pace waiting to tucker myself out in order to fit in a nap before I committed to the heavy lifting that would benefit from a rested mind.

It's now eight o'clock in the PM and I have yet to fit in any Zs. I have, however, managed to get way more done that I was expecting in what has been the least stressful day of work that I've had since learning to build my first app. I feel that part of the lack of stress stems from; one, having a better understanding of what I am doing and two, the casual approach caused by never fully committing to being in work mode.

Now I think I'm finally ready to nap, but it could very easily turn into an entire night's slumber. The plan is to wake around ten in the PM to finally get to work work, and stop playing around. Or maybe not, as seem to be getting by just fine in casual work mode.

Oh well, we'll see what happens and as always, I'll let you know how things turn out when I chime in tomorrow.

Talk to you then,

- The Wicker Breaker