I’m having so, so much fun playing FFXIV again. Meeting some really friendly people. Playing from my couch away from my desktop. It’s just a good time.

Something I did not expect was a bonding moment with my kids thanks to Psychostick of all things. I regularly listened to them when I was an adult teen. Fast forward nearly a decade and I hear them singing “I’m a dog and I like socks”, and we headbanged together.

Loving that this second monitor is not only good for couch gaming, but if I’m doing what I call “shallow work”, it’s nice to have a second screen. My little Macbook Air is great on its own, but sometimes I want the extra real-estate. Not too different than my original RV setup, actually.

Eventually I’ll replace this board with something better, but for now, any planar surface will do 😅

I even created my own daily journal template using Figma last night. I based it on my time-budgeting approach, and left plenty of room for bullet journaling so I can get stuff out of my head and keep myself from getting distracted during the oh-so-important deep work timeblock.

Also, I love that I got to add a little Novatorius logo and “You Got This” to the bottom.

I bought a Boox e-ink tablet for bullet journaling, and reading. really loving it so-far. My mind buzzes with RSS feed to ChatGPT to Instapaper Zaps that allow me to create my own curated, and reported newspaper with original links. Another weekend project, it seems.