PN: How’s it going, Adi?
Me: It’s ok. I’m glad Wednesday’s nearly over.
PN: *laughs* You looking forward to the weekend already?
Me: No, I’m looking forward to Thursday, so I can put my head down and work.
PN: *laughs out loud*
Wednesday is the meetings filled day in our team. Tuesday is quite bad too. Thursday is a designated meetings free day in the huddle.
If we were measuring life segments on a 0-10 scale, the weekend was a -10*
Today, in contrast, was a super Monday. It started at 5, quickly climbed to 8, stayed high all day, and finished at 10.
The day started well. I made the morning coffee manually for the first time since 13th October, when we bought the coffee machine. The return of this morning routine helped. Gave me a few minutes to walk around, smell the brewing coffee, and prepare for work.
I had no meetings or chats all day, other than the 10 minute morning standup. A full day of coding, reviewing, and studying with no distractions. Completed a good PR, merged two, and reviewed one.
I had a good walk with Chewie and Dudley in the afternoon. Didn’t meet any humans. FTW!
Lunch was more comfort food. Alu-methi parantha with chicken curry, and some Chewie cuddles.
Thanks to no meetings, I even finished work at 6. With a smile.
Then I went for a run. My first since early October. It was short, slow, and hard. But, I ran! Win!
A very good day, indeed**.
Other than the 10 minute morning standup, I had no meetings today. None.
One full day of just thinking, reading and coding. It was so good.
It wasn’t easy. I was working on new, hard bits today. Most of the day was understanding what goes where and does what, before I could add my work to it.
It wasn’t lonely. I had two video chats with JT to work out some issues, and one with FB to understand his team’s solution. But it was all just work.
Over the weekend, I had created full day events on my work calendar for every Monday and Thursday. The events are called ‘No meetings, por favor!’
The day had a good start – ½ kg weight drop, 0.5% fat loss, 0.3% water gain – all moving in the positive direction. Thank you weighing scale :)
Protein smoothie, bit of work, quick morning walk with Chewie, and I went off to London for meetings and meetups.
The meetings went well.
The post meeting coffee was good.
The walk from coffee shop to next meeting/up went quite well too.
Missing all the torrential showers we had today, and still getting all that walking in – excellent.
Hitting the step target just as I walked into the meetup room – perfect.
The meetup went well, though I couldn’t close the loop on a few conversations since I had to leave early, and couldn’t stay for the networking session after the Q&A.
First seat on top floor of the bus while going through some beautiful bits of dusk time central London – heartwarmingly good.
Got a good seat in the train, and it left within minutes of me getting in – ‘British efficiency’ good.
R & Chewie waiting in the car outside the station before I got there – ‘German efficiency’ good.
Happy dinner, catch-up of Gotham and, finally, getting crushed by R & Chewie as they lovingly plonked over my legs – good, good, and good.
Just making it under 2000kcal (1,973) – good!
When the worst thing about a day is that I went over my step target by 15%, it has to be called a good day, right? :)
