2022-11-01 at 11:41 pm
Supplementing Sleep, with Active Calibration of Conscious Recognition of Sensory Data
2022-10-31 at 2:24 am
Yawn 89
13 sep
Time to feed / breakfast
Enforced feeding again / dinner
Time for enforced rest
14 sep
Enforced waking
TIL undersea fuel pipes are flexible and laid either in J or S styles
15 sep
Enforced etc.
Ah shit, public holiday tomorrow. Got to be extra productive today
16 sep
Three months living here, first time in the gym
RM8 diet cokes at Tiffin : my new co-working pass
17 sep
Slept in a little. I have been worrying about friends, old and new. I hope they are well.
Absent of further information - perhaps a good day to focus on work - there remains a lot to done.
Hm. Where's the SOP ... oh yes, the day ex-bed begins with washing ...
I need a Fibonacci backoff timer CRM to manage all my social comms. Being an efficient extrovert is so complicated.
1239h
Some updates are promising. But we shall see
1622h
Iterated on one set of work. Time for a brunch of sorts, I guess ... probably random rice stuff ... Astill looking for a good translation for chapfan.
1754h
Perhaps I can afford to spend the rest of my day on personal paperwork.
The mourning of the queen : an intersection of nationalism and filial piety. Two areas in which I lack much identity. Probably appeals to the sort of people who miss their mothers.
18 sep
Trying to wrap my head around the facts : newer Fairfield Marriot, business class, is priced double of older AC Marriot, lifestyle class.
And five-star hotel prices in KL range from 190 to 1000 MYR, but at the top end the St Regis (Marriot) has to load two double beds in, while the Hilton across the street charges 66% for one double bed. And the Le Meridien. (Marriot) adjacent to the Hilton sends two single beds for 45% ish.
More laundry
What I'm coming to realise is that slow cooking is great, but I need a bigger slow cooker.
Now, having a sort of permanent housing, learning how to sit in the car reading at various locations, without ordering anything.
OMG BBTV is now in HD. Feels like such an upgrade, since I last followed this.
The one on-brand thing we never managed to do at the last 24-7 cafe was to install a Bloomberg Terminal. I think this will be the defining feature of any next establishment under the brand.
Why is everything closed at midnight 🙁
20 Sep
If they raise 75bips, markets will surge. If they raise 100, small sell-off. If they raise 50bips I get two beers. But I don't think I'll get two beers, so I'm having one by myself.
This is approximately half true.
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I'm on a business trip, my fourth this year. I never had to do a lot of these in my 15 years of work before this - maybe one every 2 to 3 years. This year's trips are mundane gardening exercises. The nature of the work is gradual, and any complexity involved is stretched thin over the waiting times, between tremors of execution. A job that is expected to take years is ... simply what it is, reflected a thousand times over upon itself, like the sunrise over the earth : a nothing, made into something by the fact of a subjective historian. So far on average I've managed to involve one junior hire, having one to three years' experience, on each of these trips. To some degree they are helping me get work done, and in another view they are gifted with fundamental business experiences at a younger age than I had access to. I hope they each make something of it. To pass the time, I pause for beer by myself, fried chicken over looking a small town intersection, and long walks to and from the hotel. Boredom will always be available, but if you can get paid for it, while helping people, it distracts one a little from the fundamental quaintness of it all.
22 sep
Off to do the business things
23 sep
Nap time. 0222
Roll out 0924
24 sep
Miscellaneous social work, and some reading on financial markets today.
Many, many, strange counterparties to negotiate this week. Rather a mixed bag. More to come.
Home DIY level : toilet cisterns : modifying both flush volume and flow rate.
Can anyone recommend a place to shop for kopiahs / songkoks / haji hats / Malaysian beanies where the design and construction and cutting has been modernised, but where it isn't marketed as a premium product with stupid prices?
Comprehension of the law, is not gazetted as a citizen's right.
I got duvets from Ikea. Wanted big, cheap ones, two to stack inside one cover as a test substitute for a waterproof mattress protector.
Ended up getting 4 queen sized duvets to stuff into one king size cover, as stocks were not available.
Then huge cluster fuck of buying wrong sku, paying, realising, getting new skus, losing original receipt, printing replacement receipt, then getting refund for original receipt. I think at the rate I am running myself, I should be senile by 70.
Figured the convenient 2022 price of people watching is RM30 drinks. In 1999 it was what, RM8 Coca-colas, in Telawi.
One thing doesn't change : the music is usually too loud and intellectually disruptive, so insulation and cancellation will help.
Today's study over drinks.
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093266?hl=en
25 sep
1226h
Deploy
1901h
Spent most of Sunday afternoon testing out the new office claims system and haven't done anything really useful yet for the company. Did chores at home tho
2131h
When there is a lack of intellectual stimulation, physical exercise provides an intellectual pursuit. So off for a swim.
Sep26
Quite a ways off from 70 hours of sleep a week, I think.
And credit card expenses are already on the high side for mid-month.
Roughly : Every 100 per week spent on food today, is 3000-8000 less in your investment portfolio (or retirement fund) 10 years from now (depending on whether you average 5% or 10% returns).
Sep27
Under some circumstances, it turns out that I am the designated CEO whisperer.