Category: Journal
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Ground down
Three days of Laura being in near-crisis combined with hitting a wall on setting up a coding environment has me feeling spent and hopeless. I need my house to get clean but the kids have all reduced to couch potatoes again while the girls have melted into the walls. This family is an oozing gelatinous…
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Everything worked out
Yesterday I had a full schedule with the distinct possibility of commitments interfering with each other. Plus I had to be in the lookout for whether Laura would still be allocated with thoughts of wanting to die. I had to help Emily load her moving truck at 9 with someone coming from Jones Paint &…
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Coding again
Getting started into coding again is a challenge. It took a lot of digging to figure out how to set up the Chromebook to use git and run NodeJS for the coding challenge from Pluralsight. I think this challenge will prove to me how much I want to get back into development. I’m hoping I…
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On the runway
I actually got most of the family too church yesterday for the first time since June (if then). We were nearly late but then as we walked from the parking lot to the church Emma was stung by a wasp under the eye so I drove her home and came back in time to hear…
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Back to business
I have dropped my morning routine for the last few days while we went to the family reunion at Bear Lake. Now is time to start again. We had a great time at the lake. The kids were well behaved and fairly self sufficient. For the first time ever I got a vacation where I…
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Seeing possible options
I’ve been interviewing for a senior engineer position with Pluralsight that feels like a stretch for me – mainly because I have no experience with their particular language/stack. I wasn’t sure that their principal engineers would be comfortable with my expertise but apparently in the interview yesterday they were satisfied enough to continue the process.…
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First pass
Journaling yesterday took will over 5 minutes but hopefully I can establish a more compact pattern. Of the things I set out to do yesterday we accomplished all but one. I didn’t actively think about the list all the time but it was easy to focus on what need to be done during the day…
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Starting off with morning journaling
Yesterday I stumbled across an article detailing a roughly 30 minute process for starting your day successfully which I decided to try out. The premise of the article was that by starting with the right kind of basic activities your day would go better and it detailed a process that psychologists and/or other researchers have…
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Seventh coaching session
HomeworkStep 5What baby steps might take you closer to you desired outcome and/or make your desired outcome clearer? Stop (weeds to pull) Tuning out/escaping the present (usually through games, media, news) Start (seeds to plant) Blocking out the day – fresh start every 3 hours Keep (plants to water) Open communication with Laura regarding schedule…
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Prayers answered
I have been praying to get an offer for the job at the church that I have been interviewing for. I am hopeful that my interview today will result in a job offer relatively soon. In a related note, this morning is the first time that I have prayed specifically for Savannah to get a…