There's a Cold Moving In

Hello. Welcome to Daily(ish) for Monday, April 16. It is currently one degrees outside in the positive, but it feels like minus five. So I think, water technically won't freeze outside right now, but it feels like it will, maybe. I'm not sure how weather works.

This episode of Daily is brought to you by Patreon supporters at patreon.com/ichris, and that's where you can go if you wanna support me a little more directly with the old podcasting efforts. This is Monday, and I'm recording a podcast. I'm supposed to be from nine till 09:30 was daily ish, and all of a sudden, I looked at the clock, and it's 09:30 right now. So I am behind. I have some podcasts to edit, some clients to meet with, and some prep work to be doing.

So I spent most of the weekend in a cold, sick, whatever induced, either sleep or moaning and whining and complaining that I wish I was sleeping. And so just last night started to feel better, and then today is the I think it's like this is how colds often go for me where it's like sinus y, sore throat stuff for a few days, and then I have a day of reprieve where I'm like, oh, it's maybe just that's all it is. And then I can feel like a bit of a cough, and you can probably hear it in my voice. Like, my voice is already bassy and low to begin with, and then I had a cold onto that and it's even lower. And so I think, the next coughing phase is is starting up today at some point here today.

So you can watch, watch for that on Twitter. I'll update y'all on Twitter at I Chris if, if the coughing fits begin. And if you're listening right to this right now and you happen to be a Twitter user, just tweet at me, I Chris, saying, hey. Hope your cough is awesome and, would love to hear a sample of your cough on the next episode. So you can just tweet tweet that to me at I Chris if you're listening and you're Twitter inclined.

But overall, with the scheduling calendaring thing, I'm still it's, it's it's refreshing and, also focusing me, I guess, coming back to work on a Monday, and where normally I'd be just, like, all over the map with responding to random email, and then someone tweets at me, and then I check a blog post on how to get rid of Facebook, and then I go dismantle Facebook, and then, think, oh, I should be doing email newsletters, and I should go do that for a while, and then, yeah, just all of those things and having both the calendar beside me, the paper version that I have right now that I'm just kinda like using as a sketch pad to, like, figure out how much what works and what doesn't on this before I reprint it, like a new version. And then also in Todoist, the thing I use for tracking stuff I need to do every day or week or month or whatever bills, like home stuff, but also work stuff, scheduling the times when certain things are need to start. So, like, I'm supposed to edit, CodePen Radio at 09:30. So in five minutes ago, I should have started that.

So, it it's just, at least for me. Again, doesn't have to be the thing that works for everybody else, but for me, it is works really well when I don't have a boss. I don't have somebody who's physically leaning over my shoulder or checking with in with me at the end the day. I need something like that to sort of hold me accountable and to give me a bit of direction even if it's myself from a while ago when I set up the scout the calendar and the schedule. Because with a a family, obviously, there is, like, eventual, there's, accountability.

Like, there's if there's no money because I'm just spending all my time trying to diddle around with email newsletters or CSS on a personal blog or, whatever the thing is that doesn't get me any money, then, you know, it might not be the end of this month, but it might be next month where then there's no money to pay for the food or the mortgage or gas or whatever things happen to be needed, shoes, clothing, all those that stuff that's kinda like, you know, just the basic necessities, the water bill, that kind of stuff. Kind of important sometimes to pay for those things, I think. And so it's my the the pressures for myself, are I need, like, the immediate, like, deadlines of tomorrow kind of pressures. A deadline of a month from now is, like, no worries. Lots of star lots of time, lots of space.

I'll just think about that. I can get to that tomorrow and then tomorrow and then tomorrow and tomorrow until the deadline is the next day, which for me in school and stuff was always just, like, panicking the last day before a test was due or or an assignment was due or whatever. And so for whatever reason, you kind of are the same person even you can change. You can get better, but, like, who you are in high school will be who you are as a business owner or an employee or whatever. There's a lot the sort of those core issues that you work on and that you struggle with are still gonna follow you for all of your days, which is maybe depressing, but also, like, good to remember and good to know and recognize because then you can work on those and, like, play to your strengths and and not always spend your life fighting against your weaknesses, but, working with the strengths that you already have and hopefully getting better at whatever your chosen vocation or hobbies, those kinds of things.

So there's my little Monday morning, brain fart, and, I gotta stop now because I gotta go edit this podcast. Because if I don't edit the podcast, then the next thing that's supposed to happen at 10:30, is editing another podcast, and that's gonna fall behind, and then I have get ready for lunch, and I have to get yeah. I'm stress ready. My boss of myself is is breathing down my shoulder, so I gotta go. Hopefully, by, Wednesday when I record again when I record Daily(ish) again, I don't have a deep gross cough and or voice that's still active.

And hope you have a great Monday, and wherever you are in the world, can enjoy a bit of sunshine. Alright. Thanks for listening. Hope you have great day. Bye.