Hello. Welcome to Daily for Tuesday, February 16. It's currently minus four. Feels like minus eight outside. This is not a weather podcast.
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Speaker 1:My thanks to them for supporting good stuff and Daily ish. And also for the Patreon supporters possibly like you out there, patreon.com/ichris, so you can check out how to support me a little more directly with your own casholas. This has been a very frustrating episode of Daily's to just get to this point because for whatever reason, well, probably because I was fiddling around with something, I'm sure, but, I'll just blame the computer as we do. It just wasn't working. I couldn't hear anything.
Speaker 1:It wasn't recording. You know, you know, it goes finally get down to recording. It's almost 09:30 at night, you know, because I've been so busy looking after no one and taking care of nothing aside from myself that, it's 10:00 and I forgot to record yesterday. Tomorrow, my family comes home, tomorrow night ish. And so, I've I've definitely realized how, I'm sure I'd get there over time, but how unable I am to function with that much freedom, just over the last few days, which implies that I'm not free when my family's here, which isn't really what I mean.
Speaker 1:But I think you get what I'm getting at as far as time and, you know, no kids interrupting every ten minutes or something like that when we're around. And just how much I need constraints to get stuff done. Like, with with something that's due tomorrow, then I'll definitely work on it, like, today, you know, at 10PM or something. But if I have fifteen hours to fill for the day, then I wait until there's a, you know, eight hours left to start working seriously. And and which is okay, I guess, if you know, as long as you're getting the work done and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:And I, you know, I I think I definitely got more work done by staying home than if I had gone along for sure because if there's like a social situation to be involved with, especially family stuff, I would feel much way guiltier to spend four to eight hours holed up in an office or something working. But, I don't know that I got more work done than I thought I would if you'd told me you'll have a free, you know, weekend and any bit to get as much done and get whatever done as you want. Because, yeah, left to my own devices and maybe it's probably a bit of a reaction like from having no choice. Hate how it sounds. I'm just using the extremes without having no choice and, no freedom in the sense to then having like anything in the world that's within walking distance because I don't have a vehicle.
Speaker 1:But, you know, anything within your house watching a move and it kinda like paralyzes me to like, k. I have this this evening and I have freedom to do whatever I want. I can watch anything and play anything or play video game or do whatever. And so then I spend like three hours sort of wondering what I should do with all this free time, and all of a sudden, evening's gone. It's like, oh, I guess I didn't really take advantage of all that freedom.
Speaker 1:Because, like, honestly, on a on a weekend, or evening or whatever, like, when I even when I'm working at home here during the day, it's pretty rare outside of when I'm holed up in the office and the door is locked to not be interrupted by a child, a small human with some sort of probably reasonable question or or issue or whatever and sometimes not so reasonable. Like, to go ten minutes even without some sort of, like, interruption like that, is very rare and even more so for my wife, obviously, when she's the primary caregiver while I'm working. And so absent of that, like on a on a Saturday here, it kind of is just like this weird feeling of, like, I don't wanna start anything because I'm gonna get interrupted, but then I don't I'm not gonna actually get interrupted, and so I I should start something. And so yeah. And and the time, like the excuse I think I referenced in the podcast earlier maybe, but that idea of, like, being able to blame kids for not having enough time in the day and then recognizing that time still passes even without kids here.
Speaker 1:And there's I'm still, you know, it's still actually my issues of not getting stuff done. Blaming the kids is not really that fair, as much as on some days it is fair. But, yeah, it's really what it like I said, I certainly would have guessed I would have got more work done with an empty house than I did. And so it's it's just kinda funny. I've realized, again, which I knew before, but constraints actually are really good in general probably, but especially for me, in terms of getting things done that need to get done.
Speaker 1:If it's too wide open, whether it's with a client project, whether it's oh, no rush. We don't need anything. No hurry at all. That signals to my brain, okay, back burner that more pressing issues like playing Minecraft or playing watching, mister Robot or something or, anything like that. It's just kinda like, well, that's gonna take priority obviously because that client project is just whenever, you know.
Speaker 1:And so, and all all through the various degrees of that, it it's always better for me when there's constraints. And so even with recording Daily ish, having as much as obviously yesterday I didn't, but having to record an episode every day that I've put on myself, and I'm I'm the only one that's gonna sort of, get on me. I I don't I'm trying to think. I don't think anybody's ever really tweeted at me or emailed me saying, hey, where's that episode you promised us? But even and just having to putting that constraint on myself or restraint constraint on myself, requirement on myself is enough to, like, motivate me just to do this simple act of talking into a microphone by myself while staring at a computer and hoping it all works to get out onto the Internet at some point.
Speaker 1:So I digress. For Patreon supporters, just to let you know, the, there's a Slack chat room that I think you you should have gotten an email invite to. If you didn't, please let me know. [email protected] is my email address. It's kind of just a little conversation forum kind of thing if you've never used Slack before, where just basically supporters of various shows on good stuff are kind of joining together, and it's listeners mixed with hosts of shows on good stuff and kinda just talking about fun stuff, geek stuff, podcast y stuff, video game stuff.
Speaker 1:And so you're welcome to join that as a Patreon supporter of this show or any of the other shows on Good Stuff. We also just started up a Minecraft server for Patreon supporters who can if they wanna join and sort of play and build together occasionally in there and occasionally we stream that gameplay out onto Twitch and stuff like that. So, yeah, all that stuff is for Patreon supporters. Patreon.com/ichris is where can check out how you join that. And, let me know if you are a Patreon supporter and didn't get notified in any way.
Speaker 1:I've I've sent notices to them through Patreon itself directly, but I had one person say they didn't see anything from them. So if you didn't get that, please let me know. [email protected] on Twitter. I think that's it for now. Gotta take advantage of the last evening of Freedom.
Speaker 1:Sue's gonna kill me if she listens to this. Okay. Have a good day. Thank you for listening. Talk to you later.
Speaker 1:Bye.