Daily Schedule

Let's be up front: I don't have any strictness to any of this. I make very few plans, hold no precise hours, I barely even look at the time most of the day and just do stuff as I feel like it / it comes up.

But my normal pattern seems to be roughly:

Time

Activity

4:30

Wake up, stay in bed

Read books, twitter, catch up mastodon, general RSS feed news

6:30

Shower

Wander down and grab a quick snack / power shake

7:15

At my desk, turn on computer

Do projects like this, writing, reading blogs, etc

8:30

Start working on real client work

13-14:00

Natural end to working productivity. I get about 6 solid hours a day

Shut down PC, wander downstairs, make lunch

Since a podcast was probably playing while lunching, finish on couch

15:00

Do sudokus while on couch with podcasts

15:30

I'm just going to rest my eyes...

16:30

Wake up from nap

Maybe more sudoku or read or something

Browse internet on laptop, maybe go get groceries

18-19:00

Go to the gym, get groceries on way home

19:00

20:00

This is the time I wish I had more of a hobby that wasn't computer based

21-22:00

Getting ready for bed and sleeping

So I usually get about 8 hours a night OR 6-7 + nap which seems to work out similarly, although I think a 30 minute nap is worth about an hour+ of sleep.

The gym time is either in the evening before the close and it's quiet, or sometimes in the morning when it's quiet and everyone is at work. The parking gets a little tricky in the day though because the hospital itself is using it for... hospital things and there's a lot of construction in surrounding neighborhoods as they're building like crazy down there right now.

I tend to do 4-6 really good hours of work per day, and maybe a few more if it's really demanded of me, or I put off emails and non-brain work to other computer time hours in the afternoon / morning.

Doing 40 hour weeks is my version of a sprint.

I don't have an alarm clock, haven't in years - when I was a kid I had a paper route and I think that just built getting up early into me or something. I don't know why. I just wake up early, always have.

My most brain-productive hours are between 06:00 and 11:00 so of course I schedule work during those.

On the whole my afternoon / evenings are pretty breezy. I've been gearing up to do more hobby work / experimenting to have something enjoyable to do in those hours that aren't client work.

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