I think I'm sort of learning how best to complete this course in doing. I have a cut off at the end of Feb, the assignment is 4, roughly 25 mark questions, so I figured that I should answer a question a day before the deadline. So that's making it much easier than getting to the day before the deadline and doing everything then - which is normally how I roll. I'm normally OK with that, I just go to bed late.
We launched out product yesterday evening, codenamed Barracuda. Just thinking...why do releases have to have a codenamed? Could have been named names is or even nightingale to represent all the late nights. however in all seriousness, I'm happy it's out there.
Now I can forget(momentarily) about the features I've been working on and concentrate on the new R&D project that I've been assigned. I'm pretty happy about it but will be doing limited coding which is a break with the norm and I like the norm but I'm ok with that :-)
Slep terribly laste night. I know why. Went to bed too late. Midnight. Not good. Was because of question 2 - Pre-nightmare. Amazing how slow I feel this morning because of it. One thing I do like about waking up lately is knowing I get to go to work and research and learn and that not a bad thing but sometimes even better than that, it's the smaller things like wakin up and playing my music throughout my apartment to kickof my morning routine.
I woke to my iPhone, under my pillow. I snoozed it twice before rolling over and getting up to turn the broadband switch on, and then stumble to the other side of the room to switch the speakers on. Oncr that's done, their has been a limited brain activity but enough to realise that the next thing to do is grab my Mac off the floor, flip open the lid and connect to my wireless speakers and play my latest feel-good playlist. At tho point, I realise that my morning has morphed into a hive of activity, musi playing and me in the middle I figure I might as well continue. I grab my jeans of the chair, wonder to my bathroom, grab the first t-shirt I see, put that one. Then I source out from my clothes drying frame standing on the carpet, two mostly identical sock candidates and put those one. At this point I'm 70% done, everything else is sub-essential. Back to bathroom - I don't load up tasks in each room, I'm a go-back-and-forther, wet my face with cold water - that's become a ritual now - I both look forward and hate the cold wake up I get from this, then wet my hair which is as rude, then dry it as my towel and hands shuffled furiously and I end up looking at myself in the mirror and see that I am awake, have hair like wookie. I do some quick Johnny Bravo style swoosh hand movements and style my hair. 90% done now. Wonder to kitchen.I grab a yakult probiotic(remember I was on antibiotics - need my good bacteria with me again!) and a muller-rice desert for breakfast. At this point I grab my phone, and back-pack and grab my shoes on the way out. Today's different, I grab my running longs, roll them up and put them I to my back-pack. I grab my heart-rate monitor chest strap and then my running watch. That all goes in. Put my earphones on, plug-in and place my iPod in the right sure I my bag do I can easily access it when it's on my back. I flip the broadband switch, the speaker switch and turn off the lights - I like knowing that nothing is running unnecessarily while I'm out not using them. I'm like 99% now. Quick check in the mirror to capture my mind-picture of who I am today and with my shoes on, grab my house keys hanging up on the way out and I'm out the door. Keys go into the left side of bag. I'm Done 100%.
Had the most terrible fruit juice yesterday. It was labeled as "veggie" - go figure, I guess. I didn't drink it all. it was freaking knarly! I donated my chicken and mushroom pie to a fellow lunch-hunter as I had eyes bigger than my stomach, as my dad would say.
I got a run today which is great and I'm looking forward to that. I'm out of ice-cream in my apartment, just remembered that - that's not good. Mental note made.
We launched out product yesterday evening, codenamed Barracuda. Just thinking...why do releases have to have a codenamed? Could have been named names is or even nightingale to represent all the late nights. however in all seriousness, I'm happy it's out there.
Now I can forget(momentarily) about the features I've been working on and concentrate on the new R&D project that I've been assigned. I'm pretty happy about it but will be doing limited coding which is a break with the norm and I like the norm but I'm ok with that :-)
Slep terribly laste night. I know why. Went to bed too late. Midnight. Not good. Was because of question 2 - Pre-nightmare. Amazing how slow I feel this morning because of it. One thing I do like about waking up lately is knowing I get to go to work and research and learn and that not a bad thing but sometimes even better than that, it's the smaller things like wakin up and playing my music throughout my apartment to kickof my morning routine.
I woke to my iPhone, under my pillow. I snoozed it twice before rolling over and getting up to turn the broadband switch on, and then stumble to the other side of the room to switch the speakers on. Oncr that's done, their has been a limited brain activity but enough to realise that the next thing to do is grab my Mac off the floor, flip open the lid and connect to my wireless speakers and play my latest feel-good playlist. At tho point, I realise that my morning has morphed into a hive of activity, musi playing and me in the middle I figure I might as well continue. I grab my jeans of the chair, wonder to my bathroom, grab the first t-shirt I see, put that one. Then I source out from my clothes drying frame standing on the carpet, two mostly identical sock candidates and put those one. At this point I'm 70% done, everything else is sub-essential. Back to bathroom - I don't load up tasks in each room, I'm a go-back-and-forther, wet my face with cold water - that's become a ritual now - I both look forward and hate the cold wake up I get from this, then wet my hair which is as rude, then dry it as my towel and hands shuffled furiously and I end up looking at myself in the mirror and see that I am awake, have hair like wookie. I do some quick Johnny Bravo style swoosh hand movements and style my hair. 90% done now. Wonder to kitchen.I grab a yakult probiotic(remember I was on antibiotics - need my good bacteria with me again!) and a muller-rice desert for breakfast. At this point I grab my phone, and back-pack and grab my shoes on the way out. Today's different, I grab my running longs, roll them up and put them I to my back-pack. I grab my heart-rate monitor chest strap and then my running watch. That all goes in. Put my earphones on, plug-in and place my iPod in the right sure I my bag do I can easily access it when it's on my back. I flip the broadband switch, the speaker switch and turn off the lights - I like knowing that nothing is running unnecessarily while I'm out not using them. I'm like 99% now. Quick check in the mirror to capture my mind-picture of who I am today and with my shoes on, grab my house keys hanging up on the way out and I'm out the door. Keys go into the left side of bag. I'm Done 100%.
Had the most terrible fruit juice yesterday. It was labeled as "veggie" - go figure, I guess. I didn't drink it all. it was freaking knarly! I donated my chicken and mushroom pie to a fellow lunch-hunter as I had eyes bigger than my stomach, as my dad would say.
I got a run today which is great and I'm looking forward to that. I'm out of ice-cream in my apartment, just remembered that - that's not good. Mental note made.