Back to work

This is hopefully the first of many blog posts. As I mentioned in my 2025 Year in review, I'd like to try blogging weekly. Just really briefly about what I did, how I felt, and things I wanted to write down. Mostly as a self-reflection thing, but also to share what I've been up too.

This week was my first week back working. I'm glad I had time off over the holidays - but it's nice to get back into my routine of getting things done at work. Nothing too crazy going on career wise, spent some time researching workflow engines and messing with AI. Hopefully can share more in the future!

Personal life wise - this was the first week when I really tried to stay on top of my medications, actually taking them & following my phone alerts. My latest ADHD medication gives me a little bit of Nausea, but it's not as bad as the last one which made me really grumpy and depressed. So we call that a win! Still on health, I caught up with my Physio - They've changed due to some merger whatevers, so I was a little worried, but they were good! Getting back onto those exercises this week since I was really lazy during my time off haha.

I managed to get three runs in this week as well, trying to stick to a routine with my partner on this... I set a record today for longest running workout (4.47km) and General running record (1,335Kj) today - it was quite cold after an insanely hot day yesterday so I feel like the cool breeze and overcast conditions helped me not gas myself out as quickly as usual. It felt good! Good splits & pace too - I've been doing 2:1 splits with a target of 6:20, and I'm definitely getting better at holding pace. As expected though - I do fall off at the end lol.

I also got my hair done this week - I saw my usual stylist in Marrickville, was good to yap and get my hair tidied up a little. Went back to the curly bangs instead of the side-part I'd had for a while (mostly due to me being lazy about maintaining the bangs lol). Was informed that due to my blonde hair that I need to worry about my hair bleaching in the sun!! Apparently it's nothing too bad as long as I use a good conditioner and care for my hair properly (which I will now). Also had a catchup with my Psychologist this week, and she complimented my hair which was nice! We discussed a lot of stuff regarding discipline & fear of "wasting time" and where that all stems from - was very productive!

Tech wise - my friends and I have started using IRC a little bit. I set up ZNC & ErgoChat on my NAS for a bit to tinker and then migrated them to my VPS for better reliability. It's quite unintuitive how it all works, but we've had fun so far & discussions on IRC seem to be a lot more interesting and productive than chats on discord or other platforms. We're still figuring it out, I'm interested to see how long we stick to it before dropping off haha.

I also watched my partner beat Dispatch a few nights ago - I really enjoyed the writing and story, and I'm happy with the ending we got! We played it over a couple nights, doing 2 episodes after dinner like we normally do with TV shows. Highly recommend. Otherwise, for games - I mostly just played Warframe. It's hooked us both lately, and we're just grinding through the base star-chart & campaign. I'm playing on my old account back from when I was in High school with my Xbox One - it's crazy because I remember playings HOURS with friends after school but logging back in all I have are a bunch of frames a friend bought us, a massive dojo, and like ZERO campaign progress LOL. No clue what we were up too lol.