a day pretty much off
Aug. 9th, 2008 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI woke up tired this morning. I blithely assumed this is directly related to the fact that the past couple of nights I was working till after midnight, and, indeed, that could be all there is to it. But when I commented to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
baronsnorri that I was low energy, tired, and not able to focus enough to work, he commented upon the low-pressure system that had come in, and I realized that pretty much every time recently I've felt low energy and unable to get myself to work, and mention it to him, he comments on a low pressure system. Perhaps in addition to tracking my hours spent doing thing I should also be tracking the weather? I suppose it would be an easy enough thing to go look up, but somehow, I doubt I'll make the time for it.
Anyway, as I've said, I spent the morning (the small part for which I was awake, that is) largely not working, I did manage to finish one task I'd been working on yesterday, but then wasn't inspired to do more. Sigh. The afternoon was worse--being low energy I decided to curl up with a bowl of popcorn and a book, for medicinal purposes, of course. Followed that with a walk withbaronsnorri, and then sat back to the computer not working for a bit, until it was time to head to the Baronial Social night, at which we were celebrating the 50th birthday of the founding Baroness of Ynys Fawr. It was a delight to see people (there was a very good turn out, not surprisingly), and I made some progress on converting that wool knit dress into a cardigan. It is wearable now, but I still want to fix the sleeves and add something in the way of buttons. We didn't stay long, pleading uni work that needs doing, and I came home and went to work (I did notice on the drive home that the sky had cleared of those low-hanging clouds, and it was a beautiful star-filled evening).
However, the work turns out to be too little, too late to be able to claim any progress for the day. I completed the final run from the set I did yesterday, and then decided that since that set of conditions wasn't working, I should try another set, made some changes, did the new run, and compared it with yesterday's results. Nearly no change in the predicted garnet composition at all! Playing with the spreadsheet ensued, graphs made, patterns sought, then I wanted to go back to the original conditions, and realized that I can't remember what the things I changed were before I changed them. While I've got records of what the totals were for yesterday's runs, I don't have a record of how I found those numbers. Getting annoyed at my memory I looked at the clock, and realized that it is, once again, well after midnight. Time to stop. I'll hope that I can sort out the problem, get things working, and actually finish this sample and write up its results tomorrow. Wish me luck! (and good weather, on the off chance that it does have something to do with my energy levels!)
baronsnorri that I was low energy, tired, and not able to focus enough to work, he commented upon the low-pressure system that had come in, and I realized that pretty much every time recently I've felt low energy and unable to get myself to work, and mention it to him, he comments on a low pressure system. Perhaps in addition to tracking my hours spent doing thing I should also be tracking the weather? I suppose it would be an easy enough thing to go look up, but somehow, I doubt I'll make the time for it. Anyway, as I've said, I spent the morning (the small part for which I was awake, that is) largely not working, I did manage to finish one task I'd been working on yesterday, but then wasn't inspired to do more. Sigh. The afternoon was worse--being low energy I decided to curl up with a bowl of popcorn and a book, for medicinal purposes, of course. Followed that with a walk with
baronsnorri, and then sat back to the computer not working for a bit, until it was time to head to the Baronial Social night, at which we were celebrating the 50th birthday of the founding Baroness of Ynys Fawr. It was a delight to see people (there was a very good turn out, not surprisingly), and I made some progress on converting that wool knit dress into a cardigan. It is wearable now, but I still want to fix the sleeves and add something in the way of buttons. We didn't stay long, pleading uni work that needs doing, and I came home and went to work (I did notice on the drive home that the sky had cleared of those low-hanging clouds, and it was a beautiful star-filled evening). However, the work turns out to be too little, too late to be able to claim any progress for the day. I completed the final run from the set I did yesterday, and then decided that since that set of conditions wasn't working, I should try another set, made some changes, did the new run, and compared it with yesterday's results. Nearly no change in the predicted garnet composition at all! Playing with the spreadsheet ensued, graphs made, patterns sought, then I wanted to go back to the original conditions, and realized that I can't remember what the things I changed were before I changed them. While I've got records of what the totals were for yesterday's runs, I don't have a record of how I found those numbers. Getting annoyed at my memory I looked at the clock, and realized that it is, once again, well after midnight. Time to stop. I'll hope that I can sort out the problem, get things working, and actually finish this sample and write up its results tomorrow. Wish me luck! (and good weather, on the off chance that it does have something to do with my energy levels!)
