Ever since I started this job, and once I had an established good-relationship with my co-workers, whenever one of them is leaving I always said “bring doughnuts” (next day). I think it had worked a couple of times at first but hasn’t for a few months now, I still keep asking though. Anyway, this week I started to make drastic changes to my diet, trying to cast good votes towards my identity , right? Today, one of my co-workers walks in, “I brought doughnuts, just for you”. What? Why now? I’m trying to do (and doing) good!! El-oh-el Oh well!

I have been toying with the idea of doing a microcast, well the idea of podcasting in general has always been in my head. I don’t have a theme or topics I would like to discuss but I know I would love to create something. Just create something for my own satisfaction and see how it goes. Recently I have been thinking maybe just me talking out-loud, pretty much the same format and process as my blog posts but in audio format. I do have a few concerns or fears, maybe? Like, do I use my phone to record? and if so should I just use my AirPods?, should I buy any on-the-go type of equipment? , what software do I use for editing?. See? I’m already complicating this thing. Maybe I should think more about the content first and the quality later? My idea so far is just me talking out-loud on my way home or on my way to work and record whatever comes I feel like saying. We shall see…

Guys!! If you aren’t playing Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and The Fate Of Atlantis DLC, you are so missing out! It is so good! I am having a blast playing this particular story. Last night I finished episode one, now I’m in the Underworld, episode two and I believe the third and final episode of for this DLC is supposed to come out this month. So excited!

Today, like every day, I was browsing my Micro.blog timeline and came across with this post, Cast A Vote for Your Identity. by Mister Patrick Rhone and read this quote;

Every time you sit down and write in the morning, you cast a vote for your identity as a writer. Every time you choose a healthy meal over junk food, you cast a vote for your identity as a healthy person. These votes compound over time, put you on the flywheels of actually becoming those things.

— Jack Cheng

This quote struck a cord and I’ve been thinking about what it means to me all day. In this sense I have lost my identity, at some point along the line I stopped casting votes. Is no secret that for the past few months or so, I have been struggling. Struggling to stay positive about my professional life, about both my mental and physical health — mostly my physical health. Instead I have been developing, what I call, comfort habits. Habits that seam to make me “happy” but all they do is making me lazy and not contributing in any way with me trying to be the better version of me.

So, less comfort habits, more votes for my own identity!

IN OTHER NEWS:

Fire season has started here in Idaho! (Insert sarcastic woohoo here)

Puppies and porridges !!!

Remember when I said I needed a break from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey? Well, scratch that! It might be too early in the week to call it but I don’t think I’ll like anything this week as much as this.

I decided to dip my toes in The Fate of Atlantis DLC. It’s a three-part episodic story arc, I’m on arc (or episode if you will) one, Fields of Elysium. There’s so much to uncover and explore on this arc alone and again, another significantly huge map! I feel like I am playing a whole different game right now!

I am very positive I’ll be putting over a hundred hours on this game!

So good!

There are a couple of things i want to experiment with this week and see how it fits within my workflow.

First thing would be photo editing. I do all my editing using iOS , I use an app called Cascable to transfer RAW files from my camera to my iPad. Then I’d use either VSCO or Darkroom for my editing. Today though, I had decided to edit some pictures using the Photos.app built-in tools, and the result were pretty decent I gotta say.

Second, I am changing text editors again. For the past few months, since I got the 11” iPad Pro, I have been using Drafts exclusively but its hard to keep blog posts organized after they have been published, at least my long format ones. For this reason and a few others, I will be back at using Ulysses for my long format blog posts. iA Writer is another great option but I prefer Ulysses, visually makes more sense to me and it’s organization design, if you will.

Third, Task managers……. yup! I got nothing!

Thank you for coming to my TED talk!

Weeding day was a fun yesterday. It is not all the time that Annie (aka @litzabel) and I get to go out without the girls. It was kind of like a date night for us. We had a good time, we even danced, I can’t remember the last time we danced. Again was a lot of fun but of course with some awkward moments. I met the bride while we used to work together at my old job and bacame really good friends even after we both left the company. Most of the bride’s friends at the weeding were also my friends and ex coworkers of mine (and hers) that I haven’t seen since I got laid off two years ago. So it brought back a lot of feelings, specially when I saw my former manager and she asked me what I was doing. Part of me really wanted to say “I don’t want to talk about it", mainly because I have no pride in what I am doing right now. Perhaps is because I keep comparing what I do know to my previous job and is o feel like it’s not as good or fulfilling, I mean I was doing science and I loved it, still do. Also it lead to work related conversations between my ex corworkers that I didn’t feel like partaking in. Gladly my wife knows me well and she immediately changed the conversation. Besides that, it was a beautiful weeding and a great date night for us!