Thursday and it's kind of good...

Okay - woke up in strange mood.  I walked, got back, wasted time, and did yoga and showered.  Still not happy.

I will take out time to meditate today - a longer concerted effort.

Back to Pomodoro today with work, etc...

Wednesday - Hump Day already?

Yesterday was a scrub - started off the morning with distracted thoughts, wrapped up a course, did the work thing, and did Angel work all night.  I had to break my IF because I didn't eat until after I got home past 22:00!!!

Worth it?  Worth it as far as helping someone out.

Today, get back on the horse, do  the Pomodoro thing, deal with other odds and ends, and then this evening back to interesting things.

Booking out systems for testing at work

First break:

• pushups
  
• found that the bowden tube was lose on the 3d printer - reattached
• checked off "find alternative destination for hiking"  on the white board

Running my script & reading tasks.

Second break:

• chat with P - arranged time to meet at the O

Running script - fixed installation

Third break:

• wrist hand weights
• trimmed up 3d print pieces for mearm

Running script - looking at other scripts that update stuff

Fourth break (long one):

• odds and sods
• triceps (hand weights)
• trimming up more pieces for sanding

Looking at next tasks.

Fifth break:

 

Aftermath of a long weekend...

It was a good long weekend - learned things, did chores, went on a lovely walk, and that's about the highlights of all that was or wasn't important.  I did complete the Industrial Robots course over the weekend with a greater fear/appreciation of the maths required to get those suckers working - might build a mearm to test out forward and inverse kinematics before returning to the 6-axis arm...

Rebooting pomodoro again:

Closing defects

First break:

• 35 pushups
• catching up on a few things

Work

Second break:

• weights (machine)
  
• closing break early by a minute

 Work

Third break:

• hand weights

Work - closing another defect.

Fourth break:

• closed early to wrap up something

Lunch - walked, saw M (driving like a maniac) - so she's not gone gone, walked with R for the return bit of the loop.

Back to last 2 defects

Fifth break:

• hand weights

 

And then things fell to shit...  Forget about the evening - did Angel work until I crashed.

Friday at last...

Yesterday afternoon was a loss - a mix of interactions with people, light at the end of so many tunnels...

• I will relaunch the pomodoro timer soon.  Right now just wrapping up units in the course to prep for completion tonight.

Start.

Closing defects this morning.

First Break:

• 30 pushups
• put debug logs in the compass/accelerometer software - not reading values

Back to closing defects - if not accidentally spamming people's systems.  :(

Second Break:

• machine weights routine 

 Closing defects - 4 left for retest

Third Break:

• chatted with Friend
  

Closing defects - standard image installation and limits checks

Fourth Break:

•  meh

Everything fell to shit because of fuckup with FedEx, driving out there, meeting with Manager that took too long...  

 

Overall - wrapping up last of the course to post on Linkedin...

 

Then git checkin, yoga, sleep.

Next Day of the Experiment

 I started off the day - thrown by an email but I'll roll with it and continue.  Normally it would have dominated my thoughts and ruined my day but I'm shrugging it off and moving on.

Today I will wrap up the Auto Encoder lessons, then move on.  It will be good to clear this course and apply it.

I will re-launch the Pomodoro method/technique again.

First Break: (kind of prepared for success)

• found LED grid
• found wires (hehehehehe)
• found accelerometer (read up specs - need to solder)
• 39 pushups - couldn't quite make 40

Closed a defect at work

Had caught landing of Falcon 9 booster on video - returning to ambient music 

Closed a few more defects.

Second Break:

• found youtube video on wiring up LED grid
• cleaned out c
• offee mug and french press

Closing defects

Mildly distracted by Kamalpreet's messaging...

Third Break (long one):

• LED matrix stuff and then my laptop memory chunked and so had to reacquire it (a bit risky to fit in even 15 minutes!!!)
  

 Still trying to close defects - down a few thus far.

Super distracted though...  Taking care of it.

Fourth Break:

• wasted...

Tired and I want a nap but I still need to get shit done...

 

Fifth Break:

• washroom
• stepped outside just to see what it will be like out for my walk - nice

Focus is gone - too many shiny squirrels...  Sigh.

Worked on a defect, scrolled through hackaday...

Lunch:

• ate lunch
• walked
• came back to negative talk about me not showing people how to use the weed trimmer

Back to work - closed off a defect and not looking forward to talking with my manager.

Had my meeting, stepped out for tea, a bit of quiet, a selfie, then back in to close off 2 or more defects before the end of the day. 

Started the Pomodoro timer again.

Sixth Break:

• all focus fell to shit in the afternoon...

 

Trying new focus...

Hoping that goal-oriented stuff will keep me focused.

Today on NLP work with Tensorflow and Keras.

Using Pomodoro:

First break:

• 30 pushups,
• boxed motor/vehicle project
• looked for drill bit
• put drill battery on the charger

Second break:

• washed some dishes
• made tea
• pee break

Third break:

• workout on machine
• cleaned up base of projector stand a bit

Fourth break (long break):

• talked for 1/2 - wow that took up some valuable time...
  
• looked for the missing drill bit (need to find all drill bits and organize them better!!!)   # TODO: find all drill bits

Fifth break:

• pectoral workout
• put shirt in washer
• set up verbose output to debug 'avrdude' programming from raspberry pi (really didn't buy me anything in less than 5 minutes)

Sixth break:

• bit of cleanup of projector stand (stuff I get to first thing in the morning)
• wrapped up a loose cable
• tossed a small solar light thing in recycling
• put bluetooth kb away with other keyboard

SUPER pre-lunch distraction mood!!!!

Seventh break: 

• lunch
• 1/2 hour walk - listened to Rachel Maddow podcast - 3.13 km

Back to work - kind of disappointed that I didn't have some time to do something else - will do so this evening.

 Eighth break: (just after standup)

•  made tea
• debugged Makefile for arduino - perhaps got the right board?  (worth it to use debugging concepts)

Ninth break: (short one)

• drilled hole into part 
• tried to work on it - need to find other drill bits (worth while as it got me moving)
  

 

On reflection: 

If all tools are handy, 5 minutes is good enough to do a quick adjustment or repair on something.

5 minutes is not enough to research and apply a fix to some code.

15 minutes is great!  Lots of things can happen - quick chat, recap of things, put some things away, pull others out, and there's enough time to look something up.

 

RNNs and LSTMs...

Yesterday was a long day indeed - but I accomplished almost everything that I planned on doing.  The only disappointment was the evening - although I did get course material worked on, I wasn't out with people which was the original idea.  Instead, long conversations about bedbugs.  Yuck.

Ick.

Today will be punctuated with frantic calls, discussions, thoughts, inputs, and of course delaying my continued learning.

I do enjoy helping people and it does balance out the karma as I have a lot to forgive myself in that kind of debt.  It does gnaw at you.  I have noticed though that when people get help from you, they never learn to help themselves in the right way.  The latest big giveaway that something was up was due to lack of communication - silence.  Shame.  Sigh.  I was reminded of this silence from darker periods of my past when I just couldn't let go of my ego for the sake of being compassionate and letting the other person enjoy their life and life decisions.

Today will be more work, more learning - working on an example problem using LSTM in Tensorflow and Keras.

Oh well, back to that work thing - it is boring and annoying not seeing the big picture.

The 3D printer is humming along, printing out this cool bag clip that I suspect one of my friends will find handy when they eventually do go to a restaurant.

Perhaps they'll invite me.

Probably not - time to hunker back down.