0700 alarm goes off
0702 crawl out of bed, relieved because i’m not going to exercise now
0705 feed and pet bailey
0710 check my email
0730 weigh myself, get dressed, bailey and i eat some ham
0745 leave for work
0755 arrive at work
0800 less productive morning
0945 team meeting; group seems a bit tired
0955 more work, less than productive
1130 leave for home
1135 surprise bailey
1145 hit the stairmaster, level 10 of 20, no hands
1215 hit the shower
1230 hit the road (for work)
1300 bi-weekly triage meeting + lunch. i enjoy this meeting
1400 back to work, or something like that
1730 on the bus headed for downtown
1800 at japanese class
2050 class is over, i’m standing in the cold
2100 back on the bus
2130 at home, bailey seeks attention
2145 eating peanuts and drinking some wine
2200 working on my ai final
2300 relaxing with some tv while writing this entry

i don’t know what it is, but all of a sudden i’m undisciplined in my wakeups. this morning i woke up about 5 (bathroom) and moved my alarm forward from 6 to 7. then i woke up at 7 and moved it forward to 9. i ended up getting up about 8, but all those breaks don’t leave me with good sleep. i also missed working out this morning. i know working out as something to do with it, because it makes the process of waking up seem so much more expensive (or uncomfortable). i’m hoping to go home at lunch and do a workout… or after class…

I think the Miata’s battery might be ready for replacement. I don’t know how old it is; I haven’t replaced it so it could be the original (and 7 yrs old). It has been dead twice in the last two weeks, so I have it in the kitchen on the charger. Maybe I can get a little more life out of it. It looks like I’m in good shape as far as homework is concerned. I’m sure there are incremental improvements I could make, but the hard stuff is solved. I might play bridge or a computer game with some co-workers this evening.

i spoke at length with my boss tonight. i’ve had quite a bit of kernel envy for some time and eventually it got to the point where i felt pigeon-holed, so i wanted to talk about a way out. he made me think about valuing my “soft-skills”, my management skills, and reminded me that there are plenty of hard problems to solve in the area i’m in.

i enjoyed the thanksgiving holiday so much that i’m suffering a bit of the blues. my temper is a little short, i’m impatient and crabby, and i’m ready for the next set of holidays. i gotta buck up though, this is crunch time.

i woke up this morning and felt a little tired. i thought of exercise and convinced myself that since it was mid-week, i could put it off. i reset the alarm in haste (because i needed to fall back asleep before i reconsidered) and then i wasn’t sure whether i had set the time forward or the alarm. i wasn’t really able to fall back to sleep solidly, as i began to wonder about whether i would be late for work and that it was lame i had to be at work at a specific time. my thought process continued with me debating the merits of being a boss and wondering if i could keep it up once Eriko was here. Bailey did a great job of being quiet but eventually my thoughts overpowered my drowsiness and i woke up. i quickly re-evaluated my schedule and realized i could certainly still exercise because i can work later tonight since i have no prior obligations. there was a bit of mental convicing before i put on my exercise clothes and walked down the hall… only to hear someone else exercising. i didn’t like that at all and almost decided not to go through with it. after some more internal debates, i decided that at the very least i had to get headphones so i could listen to Seinfeld in peace. as it turned out, the girl’s presence in the room didn’t affect me in a negative way at all. she ran on the treadmill and even though that was right next to my station, Seinfeld kept me sufficiently distracted. now i’ve made it five days in a row, but can i keep it up?