For those who know me a little better, they'll find this odd. This "relaxing" thing is not my speed. I'm not a "relax" person. I don't do "relax". I'm switched on. All the time.
In many ways I'm the ultimate little corporate worker bee. . .except that the stuff that most companies want is not the type of work that switches me on. I get bored. I get bored with exciting things, much less the little mundanities that make up the bulk of things that "need to be done". And so I generally fill _all_ my time with Things To Do.
A huge chunk of these things are "Work Things that are boring but that need to get done." The types of things that I would _gladly_ let an AI do for me. There's a never-ending stack of these things. Code reviews of AI-generated code, cleaning up my jira tickets, every. . . .fucking. . .meeting. . .
Another massive chunk is "Kids stuff". This stuff gets priority queuing. Kids need something fixed, a book read, etc. Well that gets done, immediately. Work can wait unless I'm _actively_ on a call, and even then only if the call is something I judge as "important enough for me to pay attention to"
A much smaller chunk of things are "Interesting Work Things" these are the tasks that I find genuinely interesting or even fun that have to do with work. Recently, that's been a lot of "Write F# stuff", including both code and documentation.
Next is the problematic one: "Important things that have very long horizons but which are potentially life-altering if left too long." This is the "I have student loans to pay off, and I need to come up with a better way than 'working the rest of my life'" type of thing. The "I should really get an oil change/re-register the car/look at refinancing options on the mortage/rebalance out budget". Things that are important for one reason or another but have extenuating circumstances that vary how pressing they are; we don't drive a lot, so I forgot to re-register the car. . .for 10 months.
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