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What I’ve Been Doing at 20:15 (8:15 PM) – March 2015

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Started keeping track of what I was doing at 20:15 (8:15 PM) every day for the last few months after reading Kitt Hodson’s Pastry Box article from Jan 1, 2015. Which was about how a year earlier she read Erica Douglass’s article about writing down what she did at 11:11 AM and 20:14 (8:14 PM) everyday.

I thought this was a great idea to see if I could find any patterns in my nights. So far I tend to watch TV Monday, Thursday, and Sunday nights when I’m home. Also on the weekends I tend to be leaving or coming back from dinner, sometimes even eating dinner.

Here is my post of what I’ve been doing at 20:15 (8:15 PM) in January and February.

March

Mar 1 – Sitting at the counter with William at the Black Bear Cafe having the chicken fried steak after a great day in Napa with Cindy, Matt, Apollo, Doug, Nguyet, and William. Matt took as his guest to a wine tasting at Hall Winery. I started the day having tacos in another grocery store. Then it was on to Ad Hoc for brunch. Saw Thomas Keller was sitting at the bar. Grabbed pastries at Bouchon Bakery.

Mar 2 – ENTERED 2015/03/03 – Driving from outside LA towards San Diego with William for CSUN a day early. Traveled from Carmel-by-the-Sea south and stopped to take photos along the way if the Pacific Coast Highway. We saw vistas, lighthouses, a zebra in the middle of a herd of cows, elephant seals and had fish and Chios, along with haggis balls at Mac’s in Santa Barbara, CA.

Mar 3 – ENTERED 2015/03/08 – Hanging out with Denis, Lisa, and others from Deque waiting to grab dinner. Need to think a bit more about this.

Mar 4 – ENTERED 2015/03/08 – Attending the Deque party and waiting to for the karaoke to start. Saw more people sign during karaoke than ever before. Ian Pouncy even played air guitar. Some of the best performances were by the guy from NVDA, and Matt May filling in for Marcy Sutton doing “Push It” by Salt n Pepper. Along with group version “Live Shack” by the B52’s and many more.

Mar 5 – Sitting in the 30th Anniversary opening event for CSUN. Watching Geri Jewell and another comedian, along with Mark Goffeney playing the guitar with his feet. Then off to meet people for Ramen.

Mar 6 – Sitting in the Loin’s Share with Lisa, Gareth, and William on the last day of CSUN after wine up in the room.

Mar 7 – Sitting with William, Elle, Glenda, Karl, Billy, Sina, and his girlfriend at the reception dinner for Sassy and Pratik after a long week of CSUN. A great way to unwind and spend more time with friends.

Mar 8 – ENTERED 2015/03/09 – Was flying over the middle of America somewhere. 90% sure I was asleep because a bunch of us stayed up all night talking after the end of CSUN and Sassy and Pratik’s wedding. Went to sleep once on the flight from SAN to SFO sometime after 9:15 AM.

Mar 9 – Watching “2 Broke Girls” and need to relax after a great CSUN. A nice slow first day back checking e-mail, looking at Compliance Sheriff, and a few other meetings.

Mar 10 – Watching “Counting Cars”. Need another night of TV to recover from a great week in CA at Bay Area Accessibility Camp at LinkedIn and then CSUN in San Diego. Hoping the cough that started this afternoon doesn’t turn into something more.

Mar 11 – Leaving Caphe Banh Mi after a nice chat with a couple from Canada on their way back to Naples, FL, for the rest of the winter. I ended up getting a large house Pho with extra noodles. Spent the afternoon teaching Compliance Sheriff training.

Mar 12 – Watching “Big Bang Theory”. Spending another relaxing night resting after a busy CSUN. Doing it to help prevent what seems to be a cold from getting worse. Did accessibility review of budget PDF and then attended APIv2 UX meeting.

Mar 13 – Watching “Treehouse Masters” after an interesting week after CSUN. The cough seems to be getting worse at times. Had two breakfast tacos with chorizo and two fish tacos from District Taco. Ran into John Yuda and his dad in line.

Mar 14 – Driving Sam home from Pho at Hai Duong in Eden Center. Day of sleeping late and napping with a stop at St. Elmo’s to visit with everyone.

Mar 15 – Watching Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” Kurdistan episode. Need to do a bit of  laundry, so I have clothes for work. Spent the day sleeping, then breakfast at Hack’s Place in Old Town Alexandria, before heading to Wegmans, and then a three plus hour nap.

Mar 16 – Toasting bread for a cured meat, ham, and lacy Swiss Cheese sandwich with mixed greens, then watch Bizarre Foods Americas in Lima. Stayed home from work today to get rid of the rest of this cold. Spent most of the day sleeping 11+ hours, more resting reading, along with some on my computer cleaning up my e-mail.

Mar 17 – ENTERED 2015/03/18 – Reading an article about Anthony Bourdain in Wine Spectator magazine about his life, books, TV shows, and how he knows more about wine than he leads to believe you. Talked to Jim a day early for his 50th birthday and then to dad about what’s going on and his traveling to Jim and Lisa’s for the weekend birthday bash. The work was a day of entering accessibility issues into GitLab.

Mar 18 – Listening to “Stacking the Bricks” with Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman, while reading their answers to people’s questions about their product “30 X 500”. Also updated my iPad to iOS 8.2. The day was spent finishing and adding accessibility issues to GitLab, along with closing out 12 issues and passing three back and creating a new one.

Mar 19 – Continuing to listen to “Stacking the Bricks” with Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman, while reading their answers to people questions about their product “30 X 500”. My day at work was spent closing accessibility issues on GitLab, along with helping Neil place device name/programming languages off-screen to help screen reader users.

Mar 20 – Again listening to “Stacking the Bricks” with Amy Hoy and Alex Hillman, while reading their answers to people questions about their product “30 X 500”. Next it’s off to District Taco from some breakfast tacos for dinner, then a little TV and back to more “Stacking the Bricks” podcast and reading 30 x 500 questions and answers.

Mar 21 – Watching the AT&T halftime show with Charles Barkley of the NC State and Villanova while waiting for Notre Dame NCAA college basketball game and eating Banh Mi. Went with Sam to Wegmans, Super H Mart, DC Banh Mi Sandwich.

Mar 22 – Listening to Boag World season 11, which are masterclasses from web experts, along with reading the FQAs for the 30 x 500 Pioneers lessons. The first episode is with Rachel Andrew to talk about starting her products. Wandered around DC and went to the Dupont Farmers Market, then for a drive to listen to “Dinner Party Download” on NPR. Next stop was Georgetown Flea Market, which I purchased a painting. Then stopped at Baked and Wired for cake tops (cake top trimmings with frosting between the layers) and a Doom cupcake (dark chocolate frosting and chocolate cake).  Took a two and a half hour nap, Then went for a two and a half mile walk to get me to 10,700 steps and twelve flights of stairs. Doing so got me to 4.91 miles for the day.

Mar 23 – It’s a Monday so yes, I’m watching “2 Broke Girls”. Spent most of the day updating developer dataset TABLE pages with properly coded TABLEs, along with looking at  the  and running Compliance Sheriff scans. Need a bit more relaxing and TV watching, then it’s back to a bit more 30 x 500 reading.

Mar 24 – Out wandering the neighborhood to get me to 12,000 steps for the day. I added about 3,000 in a slow, leisurely stroll. Spent most of day correcting TABLEs to make them more accessible in the newly updated developer portal.

Mar 25 – ENTERED 2015/03/26 – Was toasting Wegmans Tuscon Garlic bread to make a cured meats sandwich with mixed greens added to get a few veggies in, along with a few pickles. Watched “American Pickers” while eating. Then went to watch a few of the shorter Bacon Biz videos – “Making Loads of Cash with Newsletters”, “4 Stories About Product Launches”, etc. Spent the day finishing up the rest of developer accessibility TABLE issues.

Mar 26 – ENTERED 2015/03/27 – Was on a North American accessibility camp call with people in Canada as well as the United States. We were discussing how to make the camps better, easier to start a new event, how to help sponsors, etc. We had people Toronto, New York City, Boston (while in Pittsburgh for a conference), Louisville, Chicago, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Austin, San Fransisco, Boulder/Denver, and me from DC. Not sure our focus yet, but we will need to work on that before our next calls. Think we need to gather everyone’s information in one place and then point to their individual websites and events pages. Next we should improve the information on how to start/run a monthly accessibility meeting, which may turn into a year camp. Once people are our ready for a yearly camp, we need to have a road map for people to follow and be willing to help run/schedule, etc. an event. More information to come in the future.

Mar 27 – Waiting to be seated at Momo (sushi) and talking food with the Robertsons. Ordered about 40 pieces of sushi, which is probably the way to much. Finished up developer TABLE accessibility updates and a few other things. Ended up having a relaxing afternoon.

Mar 28 – Eating leftover sushi from last night, which is from Momo Sushi. The sushi wasn’t too bad, even though, the rice was a bit dried out. Looking for different ways to do a hamburger menu that is accessible and using ARIA, but is not built with jQuery, since I don’t want to add the extra bandwidth to an already small page size. Doing so would triple or quadruple the page weight and not something I want, since I’m only using JavaScript for this effect. Managed to get Curry Ramen from Toki Underground after an hour wait and a nap.

Mar 29 – Out on a 25 to 30 minute wander of the neighborhood to get more steps on my FitBit, along with more exercise in general. Started day at Eastern Market with a brick, which is a fried egg, cheese, potatoes, pork sausage, on a soft toasted roll. Then I was off to Union Market to grab Boa (steamed pork buns) and to see if Honey Comb had ingredients for Pho and some vinegars, which I didn’t find. Next drive around town to enjoy the scenery. Once home, I did a bunch of reading of Twitter, Luke W’s research PDF of what they learned with creating Polar, which was easy to use polling application. Luke sold Polar to Google last year (2014). Also did some more reading of Ferran Adria’s “A Day at elBulli”.

Mar 30 – Watching another episode of “2 Broke Girls”. Once the show is over I’m heading out for a 15 – 20 minute walk to add more steps for the day. Was trying to add another 2,000 plus steps. Spent the day looking at APIv2 and developer accessibility issues.

Mar 31 – Running the events that happened at 8:15 PM every night through Grammarly to correct spelling and other simple grammar issues.

Conclusion

In the future, I plan to post this information once a month at the beginning of the following month once I’m caught up.

Hopefully, this has been helpful to you and gets you to keep track of what you do a particular time of the day, along with a short daily diary.

If you want to meet up to do something exciting at 8:15 PM some evening, please leave a comment. Or a suggestion of something that is not part of my ordinary life you think I should do.

What I’ve Been Doing at 20:15 (8:15 PM) – February 2015

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Here is the next installment of what I have been doing at 8:15 PM for the month of February. Here’s my post from January, 2015, of what I’ve been doing at 8:15 PM.

Little Background

Started keeping track of what I was doing at 20:15 (8:15 PM) every day for the last month after reading Kitt Hodson’s Pastry Box article from Jan 1, 2015. Which was about how a year earlier she read Erica Douglass’s article about writing down what she did at 11:11 AM and 20:14 (8:14 PM) everyday.

I thought this was a great idea to see if I could find any patterns in my nights. So far I tend to watch TV Monday, Thursday, and Sunday nights when I’m home. Also on the weekends I tend to be leaving or coming back from dinner, sometimes even eating dinner.

February

Feb 1 – Watching Katy Perry perform at the halftime of Super Bowl XLXI, along with catching up on Twitter. Nothing exciting going on as of yet with the game tied at 14 to 14. With Seattle scoring with six seconds before the half against New England.

Feb 2 – ENTERED 2015/02/3 – Watched 2 Broke Girls after making updates to my Performance slides. Then last night cleaned up a few 100 e-mails with more work to do.

Feb 3 – Sitting in Barnes and Noble drinking a large Starbucks hot chocolate with whipped cream while looking through magazines. The magazines were Communication Arts magazine, along with: Entrepreneur, Inc, Jamie (Oliver’s), and Fast Company magazines.

Feb 4 – Installing Dragon Naturally Speaking on my Windows 8.1 PC, while cleaning up my e-mail. Busy day working on more APIv2 issues, along with creating a draft of e-mail sent to users.

Feb 5 – Talking with Corey, Emily, and Marisa about the design after the Dribbble DC event were a guy from Gannett talked about using the Oculus Riff. Spent the day reviewing ODEP PDF and UX for APIv2.

Feb 6 – ENTERED 2015/02/16 – Had Pho at Pho Viet Flare so was either there or heading home from there to watch Tree Masters. For some reason, this entry got skipped or deleted from Simple Note while using it on my phone.

Feb 7 – Attempted to install Turbo Tax on my MacBook and found out I need to have OS 10.7 or higher to install, and I only have OS 10.6. Glad I have my PC, which has Windows 7. Also working on my 2015 THEME blog post about a HEALTHIER ME. Visited my local coffee shop (St. Elmo’s). Did some reading, napping, and next TV, and dinner.

Feb 8 – Watching Anthony Bourdain’s the Layover in Toronto. After a day of seeing the movie “The Theory of Everything”, Pho at Pho 75 in Arlington, VA, taking a nap, and a getting 3.41 mile walk into Old Town down King St.

Feb 9 – Listening to Ali, Max, and two others talk about getting into UX, what they do, what they are looking for in a new hire at General Assembly DC. Most of the day was spent looking at PDF issues and closing out issues in GitLab.

Feb 10 – At Clarendon Apple Store looking at 13″ Retina MacBook Pro to replace my old White MacBook. Played around with the Notes and Pages, along with Mac Word 2011 to see if the files created were accessible. A long day of checking eight or 10 PDFs and other documents at work.

Feb 11 – Laying in my bed looking at the days Twitter after reviewing PDFs and attending two meetings. Then spending the afternoon teaching Compliance Sheriff class, along with my “Is Your Website Accessible?” talk and other accessibility issues at a work agency.

Feb 12 – Writing up notes for the four websites Viget Labs asked to check for the talk on Friday. Next need to check the home page with JAWS to see how things read and what is going on with the extra accessibility navigation thing. Another busy day checking documents.

Feb 13 – Finishing up Pho at Pho Viet Flare on Van Dorn or heading home from there. Stopped at Sugar Shack for donuts. Had a good day at Viget Labs talking accessibility with their team in DC, Raliegh, NC, and Boulder, CO.

Feb 14 – Eating roast pork Bahn Mi sandwiches while watching “Dinners, Drive-ins, and Dives while waiting to watch mid-season finale of MythBusters. Got cars oil changed, then over to St. Elmo’s, home to read then out to Pho 75 with Sam and Eric. We then went to Super H Mart for meat to add to tomorrow’s soup with a stop at Banh Mi DC Sandwich.

Feb 15 – Sitting in Buzz Bakery with two 9:30 cupcakes to go after a busy day. Went to Hoffman 22 to see the five Oscar-nominated shorts films, along with the ten or so nominated animated shorts films and runners up. Then it was off to St. Elmo’s to read with a cup of hot chocolate. Then to Dairy Godmother for a quart of salted caramel custard and then drive to Mt. Vernon before dinner at Momo (sushi).

Feb 16 – Watching 2 Broke Girls on a relaxing Presidents Day holiday. Spent day reading, napping, and trying to come up with a better way to have multiple skip navigation links on Craig’s Hospital. Having an issue with the width of the container, which I’m thinking is getting style in JavaScript. Plus, waiting to see how much snow we get tonight and wondering if work will be canceled or have two hour delay.

Feb 17 – Back to reading “A Day at elBulli” by Ferran Adria. Currently, read page six of the “Creative Methods I” lime green section of the book which is between pages 136 and 137. The Federal government was closed today because of snow (three to four inches at my house). I ended up shoveling a few driveways (mine and end of neighbors after plow came through) for an hour and a half to two hours. Then it was time to watch “Gift of Business chat with Amy Hoy, Alex Hillman, and Brenan Dunn after that was a late lunch of Pho at Pho Viet Flare. I  dropped my car at Landmark Honda to get an oil pan gasket fix before hopping a bus to King St. metro station and walked home from there.

Feb 18 – Watching an old episode of “American Pickers”. Reviewed a half a dozen PDF’s on first day back after a four day weekend because yesterday was a federal government snow day.

Feb 19 – ENTERED 2015/02/20 – Listening to Kaytee Nesmith talk about the UX of crypto applications. These applications can make life safer for those in danger or sources for articles at nclud as part of February’s Refresh DC event.

Feb 21 – Driving Sam and Eric home after dinner Ray’s the Steaks with William, Anthony D Paul, Samantha, and a few others. Had the hanger steak with mashed potatoes, wild mushrooms, and bone marrow, along with steak tar tar, horseradish, and capers in deviled eggs.

Feb 20 – Leaving Caphe Banh Mi where I had a small house Pho (eye round and brisket with beef broth) with extra noodles. While sharing part of my table with six women out celebrating two of their 50th birthdays. That was fun getting asked a bunch of questions while eating from slightly drunk women. Say of APIv2 meetings about UX and accessibility issues.

Feb 22 – Eating a roasted pork Bahn Mi while watching to Oscar pre-show on ABC. Slept in and did a bit of snow removal so when it freezes tonight it would be an ice rink. Then went to Pho 75 for a small bowl of #10 (eye round and fatty brisket). Next grabbed Bahn Mi, chocolate chocolate cupcakes (Doom) from Baked and Wired, along with breakfast tacos for a mid-afternoon snack.

Feb 23 – Its Monday night so watching 2 Broke Girls like most weeks. Talked with my brother James earlier who called for my birthday a day early. Spent the day dealing with APIv2 with Daniel and figuring out more issues with Token and Datasets.

Feb 24 – Again finding time to read “A Day at elBulli” by Ferran Adria on my 52nd birthday. I’m in the middle of the history of the elBulli section, which are the tan pages between pages 184 and 185. Finished the history up until 1997. After I’m done with the history section, it’s off to grab Pho at Caphe Banh Mi in old town Alexandria and bring it home.

Feb 25 – ENTERED 2015/02/26 – Was catching up on “American Pickers”. Needed to unwind after a day of reviewing PDF’s.

Feb 26 – Watching “Big Bang Theory” after running to Burke and Herbert Bank to pay my rent, then to eye doctors to pick up my new glasses. Next off to Barnes and Noble to pick up “Great Discontent” and “Lucky Peach magazines. Finally, stopping at South China to grab Mongolian Lo Mein after a long day checking PDF’s after a two-hour snow delay.

Feb 27 – Flying to SFO for Bay Area Accessibility Camp at LinkedIn in Mountian View, CA. Currently, over middle America somewhere between the western side of Iowa and eastern side of Nebraska. I’m sitting next to Nguyet and Doug how are headed to Sonoma Valley for a few days.

Feb 28 – Sitting in Agave Mexican Bistro with a dozen or so accessibility people after a great day at Bay Area Accessibility Camp at LinkedIn in Mountview, CA.

Conclusion

After re-reading these entries, I have notice how much I have done over these few months. Some of it productive and other times recharging the batteries. I also at some point in my writing down of events started adding in how the day went, what happened, what I planned to do later, and I was thinking.

In the future, I plan to post this information once a month at the beginning of the following month.

Hopefully, this has been helpful to you and gets you to keep track of what you do a particular time of the day, along with a short daily diary.

If you want to meet up to do something exciting at 8:15 PM some evening, please leave a comment. Or a suggestion of something that is not part of my ordinary life you think I should do.

 

What I’ve Been Doing at 20:15 (8:15 PM) the Last Few Months

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Started keeping track of what I was doing at 20:15 (8:15 PM) every day for the last few months after reading Kitt Hodson’s Pastry Box article from Jan 1, 2015. Which was about how a year earlier she read Erica Douglass’s article about writing down what she did at 11:11 AM and 20:14 (8:14 PM) everyday.

I thought this was a great idea to see if I could find any patterns in my nights. So far I tend to watch TV Monday, Thursday, and Sunday nights when I’m home. Also on the weekends I tend to be leaving or coming back from dinner, sometimes even eating dinner.

Below I was going list all the things I have been  up to for the past month at 8:15 PM, but realized it was going to be over 6,500 words so will be posting February, March, and April entries over the next week or so. Some days I didn’t enter the information into my phone (SimpleNote application) until later that day or the next day because I was spending time with others and didn’t think it polite to stop right then to write what was happening. On those occasions I made mental note and did it later. Sometimes you will see “ENTERED – YYYY/MM/DD” after a date that notes when I entered the information.

January

Jan 1 – N/A – Hadn’t started yet.

Jan 2 – Writing bills, rent check, and fixing checkbox alignment CSS.

Jan 3 – Watching Edward Lee in the third season of “Mind of a Chef” (video) on DVD. While he is talking to Andy Ricker of Pok Pok, and I’m eating cured meat and cheese sandwich on a great baguette.

Jan 4 – Again watching the second season of “Mind of a Chef” on DVD with Sean Brock (video). While he is talking with Edward Lee about making Korean BBQ and using Carolina Gold rice, and I’m eating cured meat sandwich on a great baguette.

Jan 5 – Watching “2 Broke Girls” and then it’s time for dinner before doing work on the INPUT field outline examples pages. This TV watching thing needs to change sooner than later.

Jan 6 – Updating WordPress: plugins, themes, etc. and looking through spam comments to see if and are good, along with looking at my draft folder to see if anything is ready to post.

Jan 7 – Working on making two different text versions of an organization chart one using a definition list (DL) and the other using heading structure to convey who and what groups fall under what. Going to convert work example to be Geeks Love Wine related example.

Jan 8 – Watching “The Big Bang Theory” and starting to outline the FOCUS on INPUT blog post, along with one about a possible better way to display an organizational chart with text.

Jan 9 – Watching American Pickers and Dinners, Drive-ins, and Dives while waiting to go to District Taco for fish tacos closer to 9 PM.

Jan 10 – Watching the beginning of the Carolina Panthers and Seattle Seahawks NFC Divisional football  game.

Jan 11 – Taking a break from working on responsive TABLE example, while also doing laundry.

Jan 12 – Working on making fixes to the responsive TABLE example, so the footer doesn’t end up showing a horizontal scroll bar while listening to the Stick Mob’s “Drive West All Night”.

Jan 13 – ENTERED 2015/01/14 – Was attending WordPress DC and listening to Anthony D Paul on “How to Create a Website Using WordPress on Your Cellphone”.

Jan 14 – Purchased CSUN tickets and now checking the weather for a trip to Cleveland for a long weekend and then booking the hotel for now at least.

Jan 15 – Looking at plane tickets from DCA to SFO and then SAN to DCA, while updating my responsive TABLE example to use other data than work dataset data that I first made it with.

Jan 16 – ENTERED 2015/01/16 – Driving to Cleveland, OH, to go see the Ferran Adria “Creativity” exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Cleveland Heights, OH.

Jan 17 – Watching Barrett-Jackson car auction while waiting for the Mythbuster’s “Indiana Jones Special” in Cleveland, OH. Drove from DC to Somerset, PA, with a side trip to see Kathy and Nicolas Chugh at his swim meet in Canton, OH, next to Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Jan 18 – Ordered a few of Ferran Adria book ( add book names ) after attending Ferran Adria’s “Notes on Creativity” at Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. After spending three hours at Cleveland Museum of Art. Had dinner at Eric Meyer’s house.

Jan 19 – Relaxing by watching 2 Broke Girls after driving home from Cleveland that took over eight hours instead of the six I expected it too.

Jan 20 – Watched TV while getting rid of slight headache and queasy feeling after having to wear broken glasses all day. Glasses frame broke yesterday and got an older pair as a backup pair so current lenses would fit into them until I can get newer ones, along with the new prescription.

Jan 21 – Starting to read “A Day at elBulli” to see what Ferran Adria’s creative thought process, along with he and his staff go through in a day to serve dinner to about 50 people.

Jan 22 – ENTERED 2015/01/23 – Was driving to Taco Bamba to have tripe, tongue, and el pastor tacos before meeting the Deque group at their hotel in Dulles.

Jan 23 – ENTERED 2015/01/24 – Was having dinner with Glenda “the Good Witch” Sims (Twitter), along with fellow Deque employees Dian and Jeneen and then Sam at Hyatt Dulles. We headed up to Glenda’s room for wine and more conversation once dinner was done.

Jan 25 – Watching the Screen Actors Guild Awards after a day at the movies watching “The Imitation Game” and “Birdman”.

Jan 24 – Again reading “A Day at elBulli” by Ferran Adria about their process of creating dishes and how learning a technique for one thing can help when creating something else later on. This afternoon went to Sugar Shack on their grand opening day to try their donuts which are great from the one I have eaten so far, plus had Pho at Pho 75 with extra noodles for dinner.

Jan 26 – Watching “Trip 2015” on Travel Channel, which I’m guessing is a big ad for each of the companies being shown. Then during ads need to update nephews soccer website with requested changes. Loads of fun at work with meetings and PDF reviews.

Jan 27 – Started the first draft/outline of my “Healthier ME” blog post (never finished), which I’m currently explaining last year’s theme. Next need to explain why I’m looking to improve my health. I’m listening to “The Stick Mobs” who are from the DC area. It’s getting difficult since I had no breakfast and a small lunch. Need dinner soon. I’m thinking South China takeout.

Jan 28 – ENTERED 2015/01/29 – Looking at the AT&T accessibility jobs and decided not to apply, since not sure what I want to do for work. Am I going to do more coding or UX?

Jan 29 – Talking with the Army .MILers old and new at Refresh DC (Twitter) after listening to Megan Zlock talk about the differences between the CMS Craft and WordPress.

Jan 30 – Sitting in Pho 75 with Sam and Eric ordering a small round eye and fatty brisket with extra noodles. A day spent using JAWS on two PowerPoints and entered 20+ issues into GitLab.

Jan 31 – Laying on my bed listening to Hot Jazz Saturday on NPR while reading twitter after a long day of shopping with Sam. We went to Sam’s, Wegmans, Super H Mart, and Banh Mi DC Sandwich.

Conclusion

After re-reading these entries, I have notice how much I have done over these few months. Some of it productive and other times recharging the batteries. I also at some point in my writing down of events started adding in how the day went, what happened, what I planned to do later, and I was thinking.

In the future, I plan to post this information once a month at the beginning of the following month.

Hopefully, this has been helpful to you and gets you to keep track of what you do a particular time of the day, along with a short daily diary.

If you want to meet up to do something exciting at 8:15 PM some evening, please leave a comment. Or a suggestion of something that is not part of my ordinary life you think I should do.