1 year-old and/or 3-year-old wake me up between 5:45 and 6:15. (If my 6:30 alarm wakes me instead, I get up quickly and search for diabolical mischief.)
Make breakfasts.
Shower & dressed.
Begin commute and browse dailies. Fortunately I'm not dealing with different timezones at the moment, so email can wait 'til I get to work.
I'm a random mech eng in a large corporation so this may be in a vastly different context to many of you.
T=0 Wake up to alarm
T+~3 Shower
T+~13 Exit shower, begin other amenities e.g.: teeth, hair
T+~17 Get dressed
T+~20 Exit front door
T+25 Get on train for work
T+50 Get in work, do admin tasks like email.
T+90 Get a coffee, knuckle down for longer tasks
I'm thinking of mixing it up shortly due to some changes with work, whereby I'll look to cycle to work. This should be slightly faster than the train + walk commute that I presently do. We have fantastic cycle facilities here including catered showers, bike racks, etc. This would shift my routeine to:
T=0 Get Up
T+3 Basic clothes
T+5 Cycle
T+25 Shower at work
T+35 Other amenities at work
T+37 Get dressed
T+40 Start admin tasks etc.
You'll note I don't eat breakfast - I rarely feel like I can eat of a morning. The coffee at about T+90 tends to be the first point I begin to feel hungry, and suppresses my appetite decently until lunch time. I keep getting told I should eat breakfast and I think if I did an hour-long ritual at home I may start doing so, but I don't feel held back by not having it in my current routine.
- feed dog and cat <br>
- shower <br>
- make coffee and say good morning to the kids<br>
- meditate for 20 minutes <br>
- say good morning to my wife <br>
- finish coffee<br>
- say goodbye to the family and head into work
tell myself i'm happy to be awake and grateful to live in a stable place where my mind is not entirely in control of what happens.
tell my wife good morning. wait for the reply: "5 more minutes"
get out of bed. groan. shake around a bit.
walk down the hall to the bathroom. navigate away from the cats.
pee.
walk to the kitchen to wash my hands, because there's no sink in the bathroom because our contractors did a horrible job and we shouldn't have hired them. laugh at this.
feed the cats. half a scoop each of dry food.
walk back to the bedroom. my wife is still asleep. "good morning!" i say to her, again. she shifts her leg under the blanket, turns, moans and says 'five more minutes!'
i put on boxers, most likely the jeans i was wearing yesterday. i grab an undershirt from the underwear drawer, and go to the closet. the work shirts are in spectrum order. i pick one at random. put it on and roll up the sleeves.
go out into the kitchen. slice up some strawberries from the fridge, and eat them with yogurt. turn on the electric kettle for tea. open the cabinet to take two gummy fish-oil supplements and two gummy calcium/vitamin d supplements. pour the tea.
check the internet. look at facebook and twitter for notifications. check the price of bitcoin. make sure the world hasn't ended. sip the tea in case it has.
tell my wife i'm going to work, give her a kiss. she may be up now, she may not. if she's up, i'll snuggle her a bit and practice my chinese. zaoshang hao, xiao mao, i say.
get in my car. drive to work. the radio is probably on. i turn it off before getting on 101. i focus on my breath while i drive, and try to sit up straight.
i imagine the lives of the people who are on the freeway with me. i drive by the big hangar at moffet airforce base and imagine going on a rocket to mars. i imagine living there on mars, and then remind myself that i'm driving and should pay attention to that.
i go by the ellis exit and remember the startup we had on fairchild. the sense of hope and of purpose, the sense of stress and the sense of loss as it ended. i remind myself i'm not there any more, i'm still here, just driving. i smile.
i go by the shoreline exit for google. i remember how unhappy i was there, too. i let that fall from my mind, and keep going.
i notice my foot up on the dashboard. for some reason i have the instinct to put my left foot on the dashboard when i drive. i don't know why this is. i put it down because it shouldn't be up there.
i get off at willow road. maybe i'm listening to music now, finding something to amp myself up for the morning. i see the new facebook office across the street under construnction, and imagine doing yoga on top of the building until the end of the world, when i shoot off into space on telepathy-mind power, and navigate the stars looking for a good time. then i remind myself it's reality that matters now, as there's construction on willow and the left lane is closed.
i wait at the stoplight and fiddle with the radio. i remind myself i live in california now - not ohio! - and i work at _facebook_!
i iterate through the list of dreams that once seemed impossible which i've managed to accomplish, and remind myself there's still time for more.
i drop the car off at the valet outside building twelve, and those guys - the one with the short blonde hair and the other dude that seems to enjoy the broken seat because it leans back too far - and they say hey and ask how long i'll be at work.
Lately, I have been bumping exercise to mid-day or early evening. I don't check my email or read the news until late morning if I can help it. Sometimes I miss things.
If I'm particularly excited to get into something I will bump meditation to the post exercise slot later in the day. Some days I will make coffee or tea before working, but not every day.
Mech Engg in Automotive Sector {Detroit}
T0 wake up
T0.1 Check phone for msgs (since home timezone is different)
T2 clear all msgs
T3 Brush+Shower
T23 Out of shower
T25 Make sure everythings in bag that I need (wireless mouse/check whether my systems logged on to teamviewer)
Do this while dressing (winters take time)
T35 Get in car
T50 reach office parking
T60 reach desk, grab coffee, check mail, start planning test/analyze data/attend meetings
I know i bath for 20min, winters are cold, i really like hot water shower for sometime
My office is 50 meters away from me and work starts at 9:30. I Normally wake up at 5am. Meaning I have too much time on my hands.
T+0 Wake up feeling a little cold, Go to my office to start start reading/studying
T+60 Get ready for my run, normally about 6 miles
T+120 Back from run, it's normally light by now. Run bath. Check emails while it runs.
T+135 Get in bath. Relax
T+150 Get out of bath, change into dressing gown.
T+160 Make breakfast.
T+180 Lay breakfast table. Wake girlfriend for breakfast. Have sex.
T+200 Have breakfast.
T+210 Change into work clothes. 8:30 by this point. Read any commits that were made yesterday so I'm up to speed on other's work.
T+255 Time to leave.
T+260 Have a coffee at some wanky coffee shop, across the street from work
T+270 Sign into work.
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 135 ms ] threadGet clean
Get coffee
Check news
Check tech
Learn something new
Sometimes write project code
Go to work
Work needed morning. Get up. Dress. Brush. Work.
Exercise.
Shower.
Breakfast.
Creative writing(blogging or fiction).
Khan/Coursera videos or various programming exercises.
Then I'm ready for the main work for the rest of the day =)
Check various things online in case another 9/11
Take some innocuous daily medication I have to take
Get dressed
Go to work
Get coffee
Get caught up with overnight emails
Get caught up with feeds, blogs, etc
Decide on the main thing that's going to happen for the day
Skip school
Turn on the Atari
{run,don't run}
make coffee/tidy up/drink coffee
shower
make breakfast
eat breakfast over coffee and {math textbook, video lecture}
commute on bike
7~8 Snooze and masturbate
~8 Drag myself to the shower
~8~8.30 Dry my hair
~8.30~9 Eat something, usually nothing
~9/9.30 Take taxi to work
Hope there's coffee in the pot from yesterday that won't taste too bad after being re-heated
Get dressed
Eat something that can be prepared in five minutes or less
Brush teeth
Chase down the bus
By now I'm awake from running two blocks
Ride the bus for ~thirty minutes and read something stimulating (right now Ruby Under a Microscope)
Now an hour has passed
Make breakfasts.
Shower & dressed.
Begin commute and browse dailies. Fortunately I'm not dealing with different timezones at the moment, so email can wait 'til I get to work.
Stay in bed for 5 or 10 minutes
Alarm goes off
Shower
Do hair/brush teeth/take medication
Walk to bart, catching up on feeds/emails on the way there
take bart to work
6:35AM - Get up again, use restroom, cook breakfast.
6:45AM - Eat breakfast.
7:00AM - Shower, shave, brush teeth, etc.
7:18AM - Get dressed, pack bag, grab lunch, kiss family goodbye.
7:30AM - Leave the house and walk to work.
8:00AM - Arrive at the office.
force a smile.
fight the urge to check my cell phone.
tell myself i'm happy to be awake and grateful to live in a stable place where my mind is not entirely in control of what happens.
tell my wife good morning. wait for the reply: "5 more minutes"
get out of bed. groan. shake around a bit.
walk down the hall to the bathroom. navigate away from the cats.
pee.
walk to the kitchen to wash my hands, because there's no sink in the bathroom because our contractors did a horrible job and we shouldn't have hired them. laugh at this.
feed the cats. half a scoop each of dry food.
walk back to the bedroom. my wife is still asleep. "good morning!" i say to her, again. she shifts her leg under the blanket, turns, moans and says 'five more minutes!'
i put on boxers, most likely the jeans i was wearing yesterday. i grab an undershirt from the underwear drawer, and go to the closet. the work shirts are in spectrum order. i pick one at random. put it on and roll up the sleeves.
go out into the kitchen. slice up some strawberries from the fridge, and eat them with yogurt. turn on the electric kettle for tea. open the cabinet to take two gummy fish-oil supplements and two gummy calcium/vitamin d supplements. pour the tea.
check the internet. look at facebook and twitter for notifications. check the price of bitcoin. make sure the world hasn't ended. sip the tea in case it has.
tell my wife i'm going to work, give her a kiss. she may be up now, she may not. if she's up, i'll snuggle her a bit and practice my chinese. zaoshang hao, xiao mao, i say.
get in my car. drive to work. the radio is probably on. i turn it off before getting on 101. i focus on my breath while i drive, and try to sit up straight.
i imagine the lives of the people who are on the freeway with me. i drive by the big hangar at moffet airforce base and imagine going on a rocket to mars. i imagine living there on mars, and then remind myself that i'm driving and should pay attention to that.
i go by the ellis exit and remember the startup we had on fairchild. the sense of hope and of purpose, the sense of stress and the sense of loss as it ended. i remind myself i'm not there any more, i'm still here, just driving. i smile.
i go by the shoreline exit for google. i remember how unhappy i was there, too. i let that fall from my mind, and keep going.
i notice my foot up on the dashboard. for some reason i have the instinct to put my left foot on the dashboard when i drive. i don't know why this is. i put it down because it shouldn't be up there.
i get off at willow road. maybe i'm listening to music now, finding something to amp myself up for the morning. i see the new facebook office across the street under construnction, and imagine doing yoga on top of the building until the end of the world, when i shoot off into space on telepathy-mind power, and navigate the stars looking for a good time. then i remind myself it's reality that matters now, as there's construction on willow and the left lane is closed.
i wait at the stoplight and fiddle with the radio. i remind myself i live in california now - not ohio! - and i work at _facebook_!
i iterate through the list of dreams that once seemed impossible which i've managed to accomplish, and remind myself there's still time for more.
i drop the car off at the valet outside building twelve, and those guys - the one with the short blonde hair and the other dude that seems to enjoy the broken seat because it leans back too far - and they say hey and ask how long i'll be at work.
6 or so, i say.
and then i go into the building.
Reminds me of Junot Diaz mashed up with Douglas Coupland's "Microserfs" world.
t+10 shower
t+15 clothes
t+17 make soylent
t+18 chug soylent
t+20 brush teeth
t+25 walk to gym
t+90 gym routine for this day
t+95 walk to work
t+100 focus
Stop alarms at 8:20,25,30
Get up at 8:30
Jump in the shower for ~10 mins
Eat (if there is some breakfast to eat) ~ 10 mins
Teeth (and hair if I'm not too groggy)
Pack my bag and leave at 9:00
Walk to the nearest subway station ~8 mins
Arrive in class at ~9:27
Floss in the shower <-- huge win since it's the only way I've been able to floss consistently
Make tea & peanut butter toast
Check messages and stuff
Get dressed, make girlfriend breakfast
8:30 walk to work
1) (3-4 days a week)
- Wake up 6:30-6:45.
- Bathroom
- Put in contacts, brush teeth
- Put on shoes & sweatshirt, grab iPhone & iPad, immediately head to car
- Drive to either: Four Barrel, Sightglass, Le Marais, or St. Frank (4 best coffee shops in the city, me thinks)
- Order latte. Eat 1 British Rolo (real sugar, chocolate, awesomely sweet caramel)
- Sip latte. Check email. NOTE! No email until now. Much much much much happier this way.
- Continue drinking latte, go through Twitter & HN. That's about 60 mins worth. Head home and start day.
2) (1-2 days/week):
- Wake up 5:45-6:00
- Bathroom
- Put in contacts, brush teeth
- Get biking gear on
- Bike to either top of Hawk Hill (feeling energetic) or Philz in Sausalito (feeling less energetic). Be happy. Take pictures.
- Bike back and get coffee either at Le Marais or go straight home to shower and get ready for the day.
#2 is obviously a bit more healthy ;)
- Make something to eat (~5-10 minutes)
- Eat + write a page + draw something (~10 minutes)
- Make and drink something green (~10 minutes)
- Meditate (20 minutes)
- Get to work
Lately, I have been bumping exercise to mid-day or early evening. I don't check my email or read the news until late morning if I can help it. Sometimes I miss things.
If I'm particularly excited to get into something I will bump meditation to the post exercise slot later in the day. Some days I will make coffee or tea before working, but not every day.
I know i bath for 20min, winters are cold, i really like hot water shower for sometime
9:00: Wakeup, dress, protein shake
9:15: Walk to office
9:30: Standup at office
9:45: Uninterrupted coding until lunch
7:00am - shower, get dressed
7:15am - make breakfast and coffee
7:45am - begin the hour long drive to work
I'm a front end dev manager for a large company.