I’ve provided this week’s standard schedule below, but I have a few ongoing problems that need to be taken care of.
The first is my apartment needs some maintenance. There are some cracks in the wall that need to be caulked / screens whose borders need to be properly sealed. I have had some ant issues, and a mosquito made a visit on Tuesday night, preventing me from falling asleep for a couple of hours.
The other major problem I have is I have no work station. I am using a diseased Macbook pro running Mac OSX 10.9.5. ((I also have another Macbook Pro running a recent OSX for my saltmines job. In addition I have an older IBM Thinkpad with a fresh install of gentoo. The Thinkpad could become my work station, although the specs on that computer are not great. In any case, I would first need to get a mouse, keyboard, and ethernet cable to use the Thinkpad productively.)) I have no external keyboard nor monitor, nor mouse, nor even an Ethernet cable. This is bad ergonomically, and participating in younghands with a focus being ‘owning what you do’ while using a computer that owns me is driving me insane.
I want to fix these issues but my current schedule doesn’t afford me enough time to address them. I’m not sure if the right move is to reduce my workload to allow time for the above, or to suffer until I am efficient enough to get my shit done with spare time.
Must Do
- Fortify base.
- Get work station in order.
- 20 hours of saltmine work.
- Daily Spanish Study.
Time Permitting
- Reread The Odyssey
- Practice guitar for 45 minutes 5/7 days of the week.
- Surf (about 10 hours total, I am surfing just in the mornings or evenings and not worrying about being out during the best conditions.)
“The other major problem I have is I have no work station.” – oh boy. THIS is something you fix and fix FIRST. Would you keep practicing guitar with a half-broken, lousy sounding instrument until you are “efficient enough”? Iirc you actually bought yourself another guitar and that’s fine but seriously, what are you doing there “working” on “tools” that make it harder and shittier?? Next I’ll hear you are working on a touch screen for full lolz.
So forget about that list there, your main task this week is to get your workspace in FULL working order. This includes ergonomic everything from monitor to keyboard, mouse, chair, whatever else you need. And it *also* includes a sane software environment. As to hardware, note that you are unlikely to need whatever computing power but you DO need an actual computer as opposed to crapple fashion items, yes. At any rate: strike out 1,4 and 5; add the task to make a sane workspace and a healthy apartment there overall; time permitting, re-read from The Odyssey.
Comment by Diana Coman — November 4, 2019 @ 4:27 pm
Updated.
I will research tomorrow where to get items for my work station. I will probably go to either Liberia or maybe even San Jose to do some shopping. There are going to be some items that I need to order, which may take some time to arrive. I plan to get temporary solutions for these. For example I will get some decent keyboard at a store, and then perhaps order the keyboard Adam uses.
I plan to get a new laptop to use as my main frame. I am interested in recommendations as to what I should buy. The other possibility would be to use my low spec thinkpad or wipe the os and use my mac. I don’t particularly like either of those two options because my mac will serve well as a ‘tolietbox’ and while sane software may make my thinkpad hum along smoothly, it will take forever to do tasks such as compiling.
Comment by Will Haack — November 5, 2019 @ 5:00 am