30 may 2019
good sleep work relax food lost video
Thu May 30 17:36:24 EDT 2019
I think I finally got some good sleep after like a week of really bad sleep. It was really nice and now I don't feel so exhausted. I think this is in large part due to not having any unsaid stresses between me and my fiancee.
I tried to get some work done earlier and it just didn't happen, for better or worse. I ended up mostly just hanging out on cmccabe's rawtext.club (I'm ~trnslts there) and fixing up a few of my utilities and thinking about future projects, instead of tackling the project that I actually have to do. Alas.
Today's mostly been another relaxing day (besides the attempt at working). Played some more Mario Kart, did some cooking, and have been listening to music. Now I'm back on the computer, hoping to try working again.
I cooked some really good mashed potatoes and shredded up another potato. I think I can use the shredded one for some potato pancakes which I've never made before and hope to just wing it. My thinking is: combine the (dried) shredded potato, some sausage, some onion, and a nice knob of butter for each pancake. Cook them for a few minutes, flip 'em, and cook for another few minutes. I should try to make a sauce for them, maybe I can fashion a BBQ sauce.
After some conversation on IRC I wanted to share a video I really liked and found it gone. It was AvE's "Power of the Learning Curve" and I find it pretty motivating, but now it's gone. The idea is that you have to embrace every part of the learning curve: the "u suc" part, the somewhat good part, and the expert part. In terms of hours, AvE figures that if 10k hours is the "I know everything to know about this" limit, then the "u suc" zone takes up about 50 hours, the middle part takes the better part of the 10k hours, and then the last part continues indefinitely. I'm very much paraphrasing, but I hope I can find the video again.