Sleep: Not enough the night before, which led to me being super knackered yesterday afternoon. I cancelled the movie visit I had planned, got stuck in traffic on the motorway, but at least was home early-ish enough to get a decent amount of sleep. (Also managed to combine three random stories into one “snippet” for whatever kind of accomplishment that should be)
Daily Dose of AI: Using it came up at work; I might have brought it up in fact. At some point I started joking about how I grew up with using a rotary phone and only three stations on TV, but only to illustrate how old I already am and how old I feel when I think about getting used to this technology and how it will change all our lives in ways we can’t comprehend yet. An article I read in the morning compared it to the “steam engine”, which is fitting in a way. Though the steam engine changed the world in a much slower pace, I guess.
Clean Desk: Coming out of the pandemic our office started a desk sharing policy, mainly because we didn’t have enough office space for the amount of new staff we were hiring at that time. We had worked out proper plans and ‘rules’ and such; Ccean Desk and all that.We are still waiting for our movable containers / cabinets and other stuff, we actually need to adhere to a strict clean desk / desksharing directive. Everyone usually picks the same desk in the same 2-persons office. My office mate and I have been there the longest, so we are still in ‘our’ office and share our desks rarely with anyone. That’s why ‘my’ desk isn’t as clean and orderly as others. The construction work outside my office window made me change location mid-day, because it was just too loud and annoying.
Work: It’s busy. Today I’ve tried to block off time periods for certain tasks and I kept track of how I was doing with that. Turns out, I’m not good yet at properly estimating how long certain tasks might take me and I was seriously overbooking myself. It used to make me feel unorganized and bad at my job and the fact that I underestimate the time I need, is something I need to work on, I think. Because I got two big items off my to-do-list and I should consider that a win. And not beat myself up over the two other big items I had scheduled for today as well and didn’t get around to doing it. Small steps.
“The Diplomat”: I was sooo excited about this new season and have watched 4 full episodes already. I enjoyed the first episode a lot, but admit that I’m not a fan of the turn the story took then, because it takes the spotlight of the UK a bit and I’m not interested in another version of “The West Wing”. I was getting super giddy and happy during episode 4
And I started episode 5, because I wanted to know if the “actionable intelligence” plot was continuing in a way I hoped for. Just to get to a “fast forward 5 months” and a whole different setup of people! I could live with that had it been a proper weekly TV series and something like a longer break over the holidays or something. But back to back this feels off and weird. Of course things might change again over the next few episodes, but right now I feel a bit letdown to be honest.
I will still binge the rest of the series tomorrow. Obviously.
