Congratulations on the baby!
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Thank you very much @claredragonfly !!
Only really notable change this week is that I’ve dropped a few pledges down a level. I had a few derails get a few goals up to the $90 point and discovered that’s more “terrifying” than “invigorating” right now.
I also need to tweak the definition part for cleaning - between baby and we moved from upstairs to downstairs to better support baby, the house’s needs for cleaning have shifted. So right now I’m kinda operating on vibes of if I’ve done enough cleaning to count as a +1 for the day. I’m trying to pay attention to what feels like new/different “natural” boundaries between rooms or categories, and hopefully another week or two of Vibes Cleaning will help me define more brightly what counts. Or maybe I’ll decide actually not having firm boundaries for cleaning is going reallly well! I doubt it—I tend to be a Checklist Enjoyer—but maybe.
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Morning routine is back to “full power”: make the bed, brush my teeth, sort laundry, skim the pool, do yoga. With extreme fuzziness on what “morning” means, of course, with weird sleep timing.
My wife and I have been talking about bringing back my old must-do goal, pulling from my gtd files priority list (and bringing back us updating that priority list together every week). Here’s hoping we can find a good timing to bring it back! It was great for us while it was great, then unneeded for several months as the priority list was just “work on home reno” top to bottom. But I had some nice scripts and processes around it and I love a spot of process design, so I’m hoping it’s time for it to be great again!
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We haven’t brought must-do back yet, but we are in the process of reviving the priority list and it has indeed been really nice as some of the tasks coming up have been more varied than just “work on the big obvious home reno project”.
cleaning is still kinda unsatisfying but I also still don’t have any interesting ideas for what to do with it, so I’m just letting it be mildly unsatisfying for now while I try to narrow in on specifics.
Withings’ new family structure for their app is totally crap, you can’t reassign which person a datapoint is for anymore. I’m gonna try just having me as the only “person” using the scale and then just delete data points from my wife and me-holding-my-baby that throw it off, but that’s also pretty crap. (And it doesn’t detect the baby at all, just… thinks I’ve suddenly gained nine pounds.) If anyone reading this has run into that and knows if downgrading the app or firmware brings back the version that actually works for families, let me know… if not, I’ll probably just delete all the internet connectivity from it and turn it into a dumb scale and have support turn my goal into manual-entry.
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If you create a new pseudo family member with the you+baby mass, the scale may correctly auto-assign those datapoints.
In our house we’re ok for weigh-ins since we’re all sufficiently different masses. The blood pressure cuff, otoh, you have to manually select a target for the reading – a series of button presses that they redesigned/reversed at some point! And then can’t reassign it when it’s wrong.
While complaining about Withings design decisions, the choice of units is at an account level, not family member level. So if one of you thinks in pounds and another in kilos, choose wisely!
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A handful of derailments (including calendial, which is why there’s no post here) recently, but nothing super concerning, really. A lot more non-legit calls, sorry support! Data entry is hard when you and your baby’s sleep schedule are still rather fluctuate-y.
Big break coming up for everything, from the 24th through May 10th: we’ll be traveling for my brother’s wedding, staying with family for a week, then going on a vacation!
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Oops, more derails! Mostly bad break management - I didn’t realize quite how long we would be visiting parents. Upcoming breaks for my brother’s wedding and a vacation are set though!
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A lot of breaks at the start of the month for a vacation (to Maui; it was amazing!) and a family visit, but I’m back now! A routine is never so sweet as when you’ve been stuck away from it for a few weeks.
I archived a couple of goals - morning-routine and flossing because they’ve gotten consistent enough that data entry was a chore rather than a useful push. So far so good!
I’ve been thinking a lot about the sorts of goals that a few people have talked about where it’d be nice to have two separate lines graphed together - a “bare minimum rate, big sting” variant and a “ambitious rate, small sting” variant. I think maybe the latter sort of goal might be better served by a “carrot” system rather than beeminder’s stick? So for some such goals like cleaning and, until just recently, morning-routine, I’ve been playing around with giving myself rewards for hitting ambitious rates, instead of just not stinging myself. Seems good, but too early to have strong conclusions (and I did a spot of coding for the tooling, but it’s not really in a releasable state). Food for thought, maybe, I hope.
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Upcoming break: June 13th through the 18th, for a family visit.
Discussion in the discord reminded me that I got rid of my rolodex-checking goal with the intent of improving it at some point but never did. Maybe soon?
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rolochecks is back! I haven’t really changed anything about it, but I have done a few reach-outs this week just from having thought about it last calendial, so maybe just a gentle rate and a refocus will be all I need.
cardio felt too ambitious, so I’ve turned the rate down a little bit.
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rolochecks being back feels nice! Hooray!
My wife goes back to work next week and I’ve cautiously-optimistically not put in a beeminder break. We’ll see next calendial or two if that was foolish! Right now, everything feels very stable.
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I think not too foolish? At least so far. I haven’t derailed yet! Once I go back to work in another month, that might be a different story, but… for a few more weeks, things look promising.
Big ups to fiber-arts, which has twice nudged me to make progress on my box of mending projects recently, which for the first time in many moons has had projects leave it as a result! Thanks, beeminder.
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Quick update: so far, not ramping down is going fine!
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…except that I derailed on cardio again, rather expensively, and found I didn’t care to do it anyways. so I got rid of the goal!
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Getting rid of more goals that are already hard to keep up with, and I’ll be going back to work next week: adieu (for now) to cleaning, fiber-arts, weigh-in, slow-cleaning, and gym. Obviously I like all these goals and they’ve been good for me, I just know that I’ll need some time to sort of refocus on what priorities and rates I want on what without having to push myself on them in the short term. I expect at least most of these to come back in one form or another!
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