Today my office is torn up as part of the new window delivery and installation process. By torn up I mean that my standing desk is pushed back toward the far wall to allow access to the windows. That means instead of starting my day at my desk I’m sitting at the kitchen table. This does mean that I’m closer to my espresso shots from the Nespresso machine. Right now, I’m wondering if I should just eat my Huel breakfast shake now or wait a little bit. Instead of wasting decision making on that sort of thing I should just go with it and eat breakfast a little bit early today. My writing process stalled out this morning right here at this point. I’m going to take a moment and try to refocus on writing a couple more paragraphs of content.

My big plan for today is to watch the Frank Zappa documentary Zappa (2020) on Blu-ray. This week should be a week of relaxation and focusing on specific tasks. It’s a big week of planned vacation. Sometimes taking a little bit of time off really helps. I should probably take a bit of that time today to focus in on reworking my writing trajectory and five-year writing plan documents [1][2]. Both of those are shared on the weblog, but they need to be revised and reviewed. Overall, my rate of productivity has dropped a lot over the last 6 months. I need to refocus both my writing trajectory and five-year writing plan to be more realistic in terms of output. Back in 2022 my writing plan was put in place, and it runs into 2026. Now is probably a good time to consider my conformance to the writing plan and to consider what would be next.

Footnotes:
[1] https://www.nelslindahl.com/research-trajectory/  
[2] https://www.nelslindahl.com/my-5-year-writing-plan/