What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling?

I am supposed to be monitoring the tsunami warning system in Kumamoto.

Tickets. I should resolve tickets. I should call people and tell them : 'have you tried to turn it off and on again ?' Everything is burning on this planet, but restarting computer seem very important to produce more items.

I'm unemployed so I have a billion tasks in no specific order, and no boss to push me to do it:

• order stuff for a non-profit (done)
• write some documents for that same non-profit, they are not organized at all (partially done)
• clean my desktop (done)
• study (done)
• play the drums (done)
• read non-tech books (will do later)
• do some bodyweight (fuck it, I'll do that tomorrow)
• NOT play Steam while drinking beer for 4 hours (done)
• cleaning the toilets (done, woohoo)

I have 4 hours left, it should be easy but being unemployed for 6 months and constantly rejected is making me feel like shit. I'll see what I can do though.

Edit: everything was done or almost done!!

Also, I'm no longer in my underwear.

I was nervous about the phone interview (no video) for my first job, so I took a shower before it started. But I didn't realize we were in different time zones, so the call came an hour sooner than I expected. I did the interview with a towel wrapped around me. I got the job.

I should be out in the woods crawling already.

Sleeping.

Absolutely nothing. Long Covid has me confined to my bed for the rest of my life and I'm "free" to do whatever is not too taxing.

getting ready to play bass in a cover band, we have an hour long set at a retirement home this afternoon. my first ever paid gig! definitely a tad nervous but it should be a good time

I am supposed to be responding to an email but I'm really angry about it and distracting myself to calm down so the response is work appropriate.

Sleeping

I clock in 4 mins and I'm eating chocolate covered pretzels. here's my stuffy in the break room

Supposed to be working.

But if I don't split it up with some scrolling I start losing my shit. I'm also going to be doing this until I die most likely so it's very much a marathon, not a sprint. I'm also tired of stressing myself out for other people.

So I cut corners where I can.

Nothing hugely important. I don't usually have Tuesday off, so I'd like ti get to the habitat restore, and a local antique mall has a guy who sells antique chisels and hand planes who is only there on Tuesdays.

Otherwise, i need to fix permissions on my suddenly broken nas, rebuild my proxmox server I broke when transferring parts, install the last five panels of privacy fence in my backyard, run service cable through a buried conduit to my garage, finish stitching my chisel roll, pick up some gate hardware for the fence, move a pallet of vintage specialized bricks out of my neighbors yard to use on my porch, renew my car insurance, check on my current 3d prints, design some drawers to hold lens blanks at my offices, and sharpen all my planes, chisels, spokeshaves and striking knives.

Quality of life upgrades, nothing particularly pressing. Gotta finish my coffee and consider eating something first.

Nothing, I just finished breakfast while scrolling.

GL on the presentation! Yesterday I found out I can give a talk in a week and a half on some work I did several years ago. I'm kinda looking forward to it. I do that thing where I imagine I'm just presenting to one person in the room. Also I usually make some good slides, so if I freeze up I can just read off the slides. Also, practice!

Naught. I'm sipping vanilla rooibos tea, eating a mug cake and ragebaiting people online, all while being sick at home alone. :(

Groceries

Thesis

Nothing, I just woke up early.

I have no obligations for the rest of the day. I’m currently vacillating between making coffee and not making coffee before I go and play cyberpunk 2077 for the rest of the day.

Update: I made coffee

Noyhing. Had an extremely productive day followed by about an hour of great sex.

Just reading the news before going to sleep. Scrolling Lemmy is part of my routine before sleep.

Going to bed

Packing, cleaning, and fixing shit for an upcoming interstate move.

Peeing.

I'm scrolling while waiting for code I wrote to finish running, so I'm not supposed to be doing anything else really.

I'm supposed to be taking my pills and I keep forgetting and opening a new tab instead

I guess I better eat those before I submit this comment. Call this your good deed for the day

Currently in a meeting where I have a speaking role. I'm burnt out so I typically scroll and turn my brain off unless I'm called to talk.

Sleeping. I also have no underwear on. Good luck in your naked meeting.

Nothing, this is my scheduled scrolling time

Its my day off. I can do what i want. I'll be lifting weights in a little while. No scrolling during a workout.

Nothing in particular. Just had blood drawn and now eating a snack.

Work...

Hey.

Shuddup! Don't make me think about that.

wtf 😂

Going to yoga

IRB training for grad research. It’s just so long and tedious. Also why the hell would I need to know the names of specific cases and not just the regulations/reasons?

“What journal article spurred on the 1974 act?”

Idk, but I highly doubt the name of a random article will be at all relevant to me conducting ethical research

Writing the Working Instructions for unsecured cargo trades or the tl;dr on the EU's 21st sanctions package on Russia.

Being at a beach with family. Got overstimulated so much breathing was hard, barely made it to a air-conditioned room and try to catch some dry time.

Well, there's no immediate time crunch on changing these electrical outlets, but that's what my phone and coffee are putting off for now.

I need to vacuum

I'm sitting in front if a machine worth about 30k I'm supposed to be using to take photos

So yeah that

Short answer, maintenance. Long answer, hurting my back

Drawing up stuff to put into a cryogenic fridge in order to measure dialectric shit at 0.01K in a magnetic field.

I should be finishing up a morning walk and getting started working, but I can never get enough sleep these days

Going to sleep.
Am fukd
🤷‍♂️

Nothing, I have the day (and all other Wednesdays until October) off so I'm just hanging out on my couch at 8am instead of working. It's nice. Might go play some games later

nothing. i don't use the internet to avoid work. i use it to fill in the void between things at work.

I dont know. Im by myself working the whole day. Ive got a strong feeling theres stuff to do but im just kinda sat here watching the shop.

Probably finish a drawing I made (on the wrong type of paper):

I should be visiting Basel Münster but I'm sitting on the platform above the Rhine instead because for some reason walking up the steps has made me very sick.

well im playing a game. I need to put in some resumes.

Paying attention to this presentation and waking myself to to give mine in 15 minutes and not sound like an undead drone.

Working

We should be taking a shower and eating. (Unfortunately we can't do both of those at the same time but both have to get done.)

We are doing neither and also have to pee. So yeah, this is going well.

-- Frost

Joke's on you I'm taking a massive shit right now.

Starting dinner and have leftovers ready to take to work tomorrow, but fuck, I don't want to move.

Theoretically, something, but work has put me in a position where I have extremely little not only to do, but that I can do within my mandate. I'm fulfilling my one obligation, but it involves a rather lengthy wait.