A straight-edge day, work in vacation, long cold walk, couscous meals all around, yucky snack, short grocery trip, relaxation and timely sleep [ Tue 29]

It's 11.30 in the evening of the same day, and I'm glad to say I'm not too behind my very ambitious goal of 'writing as much as I can' for the entire year, and the month. I need to do a milestone post later, but boy this week has been good, the vacation feels restful now.

I've been chilling and resting for the past four hours, worked on work stuff, architecture and planning a new system I'll be leading. Sent a quick message to my manager, and a coworker both of whom are also on a vacation, to gather their opinions, when we're back. Then researched more on golang, which is a programming language and how I'll be using it, and felt too confused, so got youtubing etcetera. Workwise it was as productive as I was hoping, but it was the first day of workwork during vacation.

Before that I had dinner, my couscous-kimchi salad with roommate BB's spicy italian sprinkle seasoning and parmesan cheese. Couscous with chickpea and kimchi with parmesan sprinkled, ooof so gooddamn good, I could definitely eat it for multiple times a week, if I changed around the veggies.

Also watched Breaking Bad with roommates for like half an episode. I don't want to get into the series because I'll get hooked, so read up on the spoilers and got the curious side of me satiated.

Before that I was doing a tonne of research that was work-related. Consulted roommate BB who does something similar on a variety of strategies to approach a problem. The thing about being ambitious at work, and doing more senior-level architecture and design is that your choices have consequences, and you're judged on the basis of those consequences. If you're a nobody you can make all the mistakes you want and somebody will clean it up, and there are generally not too big consequences, since you're working within set patterns and technological guardrails, once they're off though, you're hosed and you need to figure a way out. I'm not afraid, just excited. Let's leave it at that.

Before that, had very interesting conversation with roommate BB about world politics and history and the future,  ate like half a bottle of stax crackers. Also ate like five pieces of dark chocolate with liquer inside, because I'm an addicted pig, and I can't help myself. I kid. Great chocolate though, not going to buy it again, too sweet.

I was gone for about two hours of walk, went to market basket where I bought green veggies, brown sugar, chocolate, and pears. It was absurdly cold, I walked to the dollartree and bought a real crappy red sauce and the stacks chips. A crazy person outside was trying to be violent towards me, I ignored him and just moved on. So cold, insanely unbelievably, need to put on two layers over my legs from now if it's at these temperature again. Meant to go to the brewing supplies store, realized it was closed, so walked home.

Before heading out for the walk, I wrote a bunch, did a round of meditation, and also did meditation before writing. Before that, I had couscous for brunch, woke up, youtubed and got ready for the day. Got up at 7, out of bed at 8, and really about town at 9, not bad at all, I'm quite proud. It was a good day, looking like things are getting in order.

It's 11.40 now, going to get to sleep after writing this, hopefully over the next several days, I can pull in my sleep time to 10.30, and wake up time to 6-6.30, what an incredible achievement that's gonna be.