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# 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](/brendex/miscellaneous/books-and-reading.md), [twitter](https://twitter.com/letkma), catch up [mastodon](https://merveilles.town/@brennan), 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](/brendex/work/untitled.md)                                                                                                                 |
| 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](/brendex/miscellaneous/books-and-reading.md) or something                                                                                          |
|          | Browse internet on laptop, maybe go get groceries                                                                                                                              |
| 18-19:00 | Go to the gym, get groceries on way home                                                                                                                                       |
| 19:00    | [Make supper](/brendex/food/diet-and-food.md)                                                                                                                                  |
| 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](/brendex/miscellaneous/fitness-+-lifting.md#wiki_schedule) 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.