Evan @Neff@octodon.social

I've noticed a lot of issues with focus and I've started having people tell me "I don't seem like myself", which means I am past a point of burnout.

It is looking like the two options are
1 - Cabin week with hiking. Preferably somewhere also near a river system so I can go kayaking

2 - Beach trip where all I do is sit out and read. Maybe some snorkeling

Either way I need a trip to just unplug my brain for a bit.

I realized I don't have any long periods of time off scheduled through the rest of the year. I need to fix that. Maybe a nice long weekend in a cabin with some reading and hiking..

#selfcare

You know that moment when you look at your to-do list and think "Maybe I should aim a little lower in life."?

is 9am on a Monday too early to get there?

I think the coolest thing I've seen at this taping of #theadventurezone is someone with an Atom & His Package patch!

Fuckin.... That brings me back.

I'm starting to get that skin crawly feeling at work and I know I need to take some time to get away and reset

But when I think about taking time off, the first thing I go to is "oh good, I'll be able to spend a few days working on all the stuff I need to get done"

Why the hell is my first thought to spend vacation time to work? :/

Why do grapes and plums change their name when dried? Shouldn't the two states (grape/raisin and plum/prune) share some sort of root word?

A good way to ruin a few days - have your soon to be ex tell you in passing that they are going to ask for alimony even though they have a rather large savings account, got about 70% of the proceeds from selling the house, and have been getting about 50% of my paycheck so far for support.

The idea that now she wants a formal alimony for 5-7 more years because she doesn't want to take a non-ideal job or have to touch her savings is infuriating.

I've just found out about mastodon.host. It seems like an interesting instance, but I don't want to start a whole new account to be able to view their local timeline to find new people to follow.

It would be cool to be able to dip in to another instances' local timeline as a discovery tool.

I do need to find some replacement keycaps for my #mechanicalkeyboard at work. I'm missing the backspace, return, and function cluster keys from the cap set I bought :/

I am still trying to figure out what sort of stuff I want to share on here... sometimes I think just going full stream of consciousness and letting whatever fly is the way to go

Since my organization is very QuickBase dependant, I think I've found a way to build out a Gantt chart app and a kanban board for my team and link those to the larger department reporting.

Looks like I'll be learning how to customize QB now

I am struggling to find a decent #projectmanagement system.

There are so many ad hoc processes at work and a ton of fire drills. I don't have a way to track the planned roadmap and capacity of my team, assign out quick tasks, and deprioritize existing work to free up time.

On top of that, since I am always in meeting requests sidestep me and my team does a lot of non-priority work because I can't be there to be a filter and there isn't a place to easily track it.

If anyone has suggestions...

Hello party people! Hope everyone is doing well.

I've been completely swamped at work and finding that I'm putting off moving forward with life goals in order to try to recoup mentally every night.

I need to make sure I am balancing getting to a working state every day and not getting stuck treading water in one place or another.

I'd love to be able to not feel like work expands to take everything at some point...

Does anyone have recommendations for a mac email client that works with a corporate exchange server?

Apple Mail and Outlook both have a lot of oddities and I am willing to try something else to actually get successful email syncing if there is anything worth trying out there.

I've used AirMail but it felt too complex and messy. Plus it added tons of folders to the server for no reason

I just realized I can start a spotify playlist on my computer, play it on all my echo devices, and control it with my phone.

This is the future I was promised!