Friday Thoughts 08
It's before 2pm on a Friday afternoon and all my work is finished ahead of a long weekend. What better time than now to write some disjointed thoughts?
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Just a few minutes ago I realized I hit my afternoon wall, feeling as though I could easily lie down and take a nap. We actually have a library in the building, with couches, but given that there's a long wall of windows allowing people to see inside, I don't think that would work out very well for me. People would probably think I feel sick or something. My wife suggested I walk outside from one door to another, so I did that after I made a (decaf) coffee in the kitchen. It was a little refreshing, hopefully deterrent enough to keep me from buying an overpriced chocolate bar from the office cafeteria.
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I'm in one of those moods again: I don't feel inspired to create. I go through these "down" cycles every now and then, and I've been in it for the last two weeks at least. It used to bother me but since I wrote out some feelings about it a few years back I just kind of accept it and let things work out as they may. Though today I realized that part of the problem this time around is I feel like I "need" to write something deep and insightful to make my blog worth reading.
It might be because I know my posts are being shared auto-magically on the Simple Chats Discord. Some of the posts my fellow bloggers share are "more" than what I ever write (what a subjective judgment on my own work, eh?) and I'm self-conscious about what I push through my feed. Which is weird, because my stuff has always been available through the discovery feed, and I have no problem with that.
Minds are weird.
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I'm finally at the tail end of my cold. This is day...9? of the cold and I'm still waking up full of mucus. Yesterday and today it's been less and less but it's just persistent and not going away. I'm very glad that I don't have the dry cough my wife does...that might be coming though.
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Since I got my new smartwatch I've been curious about the battery protection setting that I can turn on - it pauses charging when it reaches 90%, and then starts charging again at 85%. I was on the fence about enabling this - there are so many different arguments for and against it as to whether it's worth it or not. Just last night I read someone (who claimed to be an engineer of some sort) say that there's no point in doing it. But then several more replies suggesting that limiting the charge early on reduces wear on the battery (and number of charging cycles) so that later on, if you hold onto your phone for a while instead of replace it every 2 years, the battery will last quite a bit longer.
My phone battery life is not great at this point so I'm a inclined to agree with the latter opinion. So I've enabled that setting. While I am happy to charge my watch while I'm getting ready in the morning every day, extending the battery life of an expensive watch seems like a good idea to me, even if it's a placebo effect.