Daily Log of what I need to get done each day, I discuss my own thoughts and beat myself up a bit so reader beware

2025-10-27

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

My consistency has been insanely good lately. I'll sometimes multitask and watch something while I study, but I study or work basically all the time.
I have a little over a month until the JLPT N2 test, to prepare for this I'm studying around 4 hours of Japanese per day.
I hope to scale up my reading to the point where I'm reading 2~ hours of reading exercises, and then casually reading in Japanese outside of that.

2025-10-23

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Having such a quick turnaround deadline is rough when I'm supposed to be working in a small capacity, but I love a challenge and I plan on banking this time and relaxing more next week with more time for JP study.
Doing Japanese daily again and having lessons has been a gamechanger. I felt stuck at "I can get by" for a long time.
10k run again today! It's interesting doing it in the cold!

2025-10-21

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

The way wordpress pieces integrate with things and the professional standards go against my feelings.
I absolutely hate opening up a dashboard and creating elements.
Also had another session on my root canal, I don't love how Japanese dentists do things 30mins at a time.

2025-10-20

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Working through my first wordpress site today. I don't use PHP but I'm the sole dev so I'm expected to make the bones & pipelines etc for others to work on it.
It's been interesting putting it together and learning how wordpress sites generally function.

2025-10-16

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Root canal cap fell out and had to revisit the dentist to get some painkillers etc
Work will have a large project that needs to be done in the next two weeks so it looks like my schedule will be packed.
Running has been adversely affected by this root canal thing as if i breath through my mouth (when i get tired running) it hurts so bad i get a massive headache.

2025-10-14

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Knee tendinitis or whatever this is is still killing me from running! Managed to run around 4k before it was getting too painful, went to the gym after.
Work stuff has a hilarious deadline, although I work part time they want a full wordpress site with additionall apps within, and the deadline is 2 weeks.
I need to find a full time role soon, I really enjoy this flexible way of living but it's probably not sustainable long term.

2025-10-13

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Root canal operation at 5pm today makes me very scared!
Image editing is not my jam, have to do a bit for work today and I know I'm going to have things out of alignment etc.

2025-10-10

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Huge japanese class today, including everything I probably spent 5 hours doing Japanese work.

2025-10-9

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

10k killed me today, I may need another rest to avoid runner's knee, it hurts like hell going up stairs atm.
blog site mostly done, looking good now.
Needs a projects page, maybe I should host that under jaysonpye.dev instead of pyegramming.jaysonpye.dev, or maybe it should all be under jaysonpye.dev? not sure yet.

2025-10-8

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Worked on blog site a fair bit, and smashed Japanese ANKI work

2025-10-7

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Bit of a self note to jot down times I need to do certain things
6-9 = care for kid
9-10 = Japanese Anki deck
10-2 = Most of my work tasks
2-3 = Lunch + new anki cards
3-5 = Work out, 10k run + JP listening
5-6 = Shower, kid stuff, housework, eat
6-9 = Wednesday gaming session ( on every wednesday, helps me chill out and hang out with aussies a bit )
9-10 = Shin kanzen reading exercises
10-~ get ready for bed + clean up.
Ended up failing my 10k today, bought some new shoes which should hopefully help but runner's knee is coming in red hot.
Managed to add a few things to my portfolio site but not a lot, mostly fiddling.

2025-10-6

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Learning 11ty in order to place this with some other blog aspects onto a static site I can host on githubIO.
Approximately 2 hours of Japanese practice today [x][x][x][x]
Ruby exercises [x][x]
Some views on my seasonal app are getting insanely convoluted, I managed to work some logic into helpers/concerns recently as it was getting unreadable, but still I'm often asked to add a small thing conditionally to a form that really needs to be done "now" rather than in a few hours.
Yesterday's run is still wearing on me, "running" it in under a 7minute pace has been the most amazing feeling.
I think I may have to go for a walk and/or rethink how I'm going to do a 10k run every single day, even the soles of my feet are having troubles.

2025-10-6

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

I've been intermittently re-reading "the rails 7 way" and it's been quite eye opening now that I have more context and knowledge. I'm able to understand concepts and get some little tidbits of important information that may come up in a job interview and understand why it's such a way.
Another large set of Japanese lessons to complete today [x][x][x][x][x][x][x]
These 10k runs are breaking my knees, last night I couldn't really complete it so I'm hoping having that bit of rest allows me to set a personal best today.
I have already lost 2-3 KG in this 6 days so it's working an absolute treat, I find myself just going to bed early now that I'm not drinking, as I'm usually just studying and I tire myself out by 10.

2025-10-3

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Managed to go through the backlog of bugfixes for work and cross a lot of things off the list.
The 10k was incredibly painful but I managed to do 11k in 1 go, with a lot of walking on the way back as I'm still hobbled. Feet hurt but my knees don't.
Huge Japanese session from now until the end of my Japanese class at 9pm. [x][x][x][x][x][x][x]

2025-10-2

[x] Exercise
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

So the night after my first 10k of the month my knees hurt so bad at 1am I went downstairs and had frozen veggie packs on each for a little while.
Still had a very productive day, but I had to split the 10k into 3 segments and I basically hobbled.

2025-10-1

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Today marks the start of October, I have large personal goals for october in terms of my personal life.
The first is that I'm not going to drink any alcohol or eat trash this month.
The second is that I'm going to run 10km every single day. I'll be tracking this on Strava to share every day. I don't mind if I need to walk a lot of this or even just have an insanely slow pace, but I believe it's good for my mental to stick to this.
The third is that I'm not going to go back on what I've already been doing really well during September, which in particular is Japanese study and daily coding challenges.

2025-09-30

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Japanese lesson today [x][x][x]
I was a little behind on work so after my work shift was mostly meetings I spent most of my afternoon coding.

2025-09-29

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Japanese lesson today [x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x]
Insane amount of Japanese study at the moment, things are going fantastic on that front.

2025-09-26

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Japanese lesson today [x][x][x][x] 2 hour lesson at night
Had a fantastic workout
Ruby exercises [x][x]
I realized through this ruby basics stuff that I jumped straight into rails and it's helper methods without understanding some of the underlying basics, so it's been absolutely fantastic to go through these on the odin site.
The wife is a bit sick so I'm also caring for her through the day.

2025-09-25

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Had some interesting hits from some work opportunities, but one was really pushing me for a role that I really have no experience in and I wasn't sure how to feel about it.
Another role I have a live coding round coming up for and I feel so bad about it.
Rails 7 way re-read through [x][x]
Japanese listening practice [x][x][x]
Ruby exercises [x]
[] pearson test imports
[] dentist stuff
[] ruby exercises
[] JP textbook stuff

2025-09-24

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Got some good fixes in for a couple of work projects today.
After going to a Japanese lesson on Monday I feel very motivated, I may yet start taking them 2-3 times a week if there is space.
Wednesday and Thursday I have some scheduled Gaming time with my friends from Australia, and thus don't get quite as much done.
Ruby coding exercises [x]
Rails 7 way re-read through [x][x]
Japanese listening practice [x][x][x]

2025-09-23

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Public holiday but I still got some work and study done, started sitting in discord with a friend in an effort to hold each other accountable.
Going through ruby coding exercises.
Going to make an effort to break down time in this journal to try to get an overview of what I'm doing each day.
Ruby coding exercises [x][x]
Ruby textbook [x][x]
Japanese listening practice [x]
The rest of my time was mostly spent with family.

2025-09-22

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Went to a Japanese lesson, my first ever official class.
I have always had fear of failure blocking me from putting myself out there for things like this, so it was a great step.

2025-09-19

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Got a lot done today work side, I have some catchup to do after having gastro the last few days, but I'm feeling good and ready to go.

2025-09-18

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

This swap to zed editor has been insane, it's motivated me to code a lot of things in my own time the last couple of days.
Huge workout today, I've been off and on but when I have done it i've been doing a big one.
With regards to gym, I'm thinking of starting a running challenge for a month, and seeing if I can build a habit that day.

2025-09-16

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

I have been writing partially in neovim for a while, and have been making good use of vim motions, but I felt as though tailoring my dev experience and obsessing over configs was not really the kind of person that I am, I wanted something more out of the box but I didn't really enjoy the vscode experience (its slow)
Today I've started using Zed editor and I am so pleasantly surprised, it has basically all of the things that I want from vscode, but it feels snappy and fast when I open projects etc.
This editor basically feels like vim, but with the ease of using vscode.

2025-09-12

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Turned around and refactored a bunch of different areas of code today, feels good to work through requests and turn them around same day.

2025-09-10

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Worked through 3 different projects and pushed them to Prod
Realized we've been deploying the wrong font in prod for a very long time for pdf generation and noone was noticing.

2025-09-9

[] Exercise
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Felt sick all day and barely achieved anything.
Decided to work through old test cases and clean things up on a couple of projects, and change how we're managing some repos.

2025-09-08

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Still really nervous to apply to these mid level Rails developer jobs as I don't feel like I'm good enough, I need to shed some of this insecurity here and just go for them.
Set up staging site for a wordpress site the company is building, including a CI/CD pipeline for the other front end developer.
Realized the seasonal site uses a lot of helper methods inside forms and this is causing bugs thruought the app, anything using a form in rails should bind to the model's attributes instead or using virtual accessors in the models, we are using helper methods to prefill names and it causes bugs thruought different form areas that are a huge headache for the admins, (eg, names loading in full names for first and family names).
Finished a fiction book today and really enjoyed it, it had been a while since I read fiction without an audiobook it was kind of nice to be glued to my kindle with all my spare time.

2025-09-05

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Parenting is so fun, I keep waking up to some crazy mess from my 3 year old and it actually makes my day seeing what kind of trouble he can get into at 5am.
Added a quick band-aid solution to a project with some hard coded front end things as it was temporary, now that it's looking like a more permanent solution is needed I'm absolutely realizing my folly.
Merged some old forked repo's ive been maintaining into their own so that my github window looks a little more full.
Rainy days make me feel lazy, I just want to watch tv or something.

2025-09-03

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Focusing harder on design choices in rails has become a priority as I've finally started to see jobs popping up in ruby that I feel somewhat qualified for.
From tomorrow I will start doing some leetcode work in ruby as I feel my simple problem solving work has been replaced with making a million partials to display front end information.
Planning some more youtube content from this weekend to keep myself going.

2025-09-01

[] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Worked on online school stuff last week then it got scrapped, this was disappointing as I was really looking forward to a large scape implementation.
Creating many japanese email templates and ensuring they dont get sent to trash mail, there are several different emails that we use and a few of them DO get sent to spam, this is really hard to troubleshoot.
Starting a bunch of tracking things to check my progress moving forward as I've felt stagnant recently.

2025-08-26

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Started making db concepts for online school
Will use a branch until the entire thing is fleshed out then incorporate it into vision
Started grinding some 50 hour intensive course for aws ssa cert, it's the most common to have done but it will still flesh out my knowledge of aws and help with future roles.

2025-08-22

[] Exercise
[] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Very sick day, barely got any work done let alone other things.

2025-08-20

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Had some fun experimenting with some static site ai generation for karaoke bar blue.

2025-08-18

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Started recording some stuff on youtube to keep myself accountable, not sure where it's going yet but I had to put myself out there.

2025-08-12

[x] Exercise
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Spent time thinking over available jobs in the market and realized I should be hitting SRE applications as I currently do that job in some regards.
This thought made me think that I should probably also do some AWS certs to pad out my resume a little, as a result I started reading The Side Reliability Workbook, got two chapters in today.
Hopefully I can make the next two weeks about finishing that and doing Cloud cert practice for AWS.

2025-08-08

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Big bugfix session at work today, it's nice to learn more about what is happening under the hood, specifically with regards to devise and auth flows in Rails.
Security documentation had to be finalized and future security audits are now planned for.

2025-08-07

[x] Exercise
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Jobhunt / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Finished off a lot of KU work today
Terrible workout - I need to eat the night before.
Been playing with a lot of technologies and I think it'd actually just be best to go full-force into Rails lately, so ill finish the current textbook I'm reading and try to get motivated more for rails related projects.

2025-08-05

[] Exercise
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

New project planned for Kidsup which is exciting
Too many interviews / recruiter chats lately is wearing me out.

2025-08-04

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Very honest notes today
I've been slacking on this Journal as I always come to and from the PC im coding on but don't generally return after 6pm.
Working with Kanzen Master books for jlpt n2 practice, I will take it in December.
Many interesting interviews recently, but it is a bit of a let down that most recruiters are mostly interested in my Japanese ability, I recently had a chat with a recruiter that said something along the lines of "honestly as long as you are generally competent with coding companies just want to have a good interview and make sure your language abilities fit, they don't really care about your skills."
A lack of Ruby jobs in the market make me resent the current work I'm doing a little bit, was also told that people see maybe 1 Ruby job pop up each year in Japan.
My actual JS skills have suffered since i'm working on different things, maybe I need to read some books and leetcode grind in JS.

2025/07/28 (Monday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study
[x] 1hr+ programming related textbook study

📝 Notes:

Had a JS coding test over the weekend and realized if I'm listing react on my resume I need to get more in depth.
Fixed many different small things which let me feel that "I've done a lot today"
Made security documentation, small fixes based on OWASP ZAP reports.

2025/07-21 (Monday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Japanese Study

📝 Notes:

Worked even though it's a public holiday as I want to do other things tomorrow.

2025/07-16 (Wednesday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Worked a lot on some security documentation needed by P-up
Worked on the bar website a little, I probably need to create a better vision before I play with this any more.

2025/07-16 (Wednesday)

[] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Need to look for freelance work
Need to study harder for both JP and technical

2025/07-15 (Tuesday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Had an interesting job interview, unfortunately the commute is a little bit too long so it won't work out
Gym has been fantastic, I'm eating about 1800 calories a day and losing a lot of the weight gained over the last year.
Freelance has stagnated in terms of using apps etc, I need to find a better way to engage clients.
Creating a website currently for a bar in Shizuoka, it's good to flex my designer abilities sometimes, doing everything from scratch instead of webpacks is also good for flexing some syntax muscles, and for practicing tailwing v4.

2025/07-06 (Monday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Another break for journalling as I was tracking things in few different places and kept forgetting here.
Will endeavor to continue in the long term it will be great to see my original thoughts and progress
Got a lot of work done today, started Bar Blue's website initial designs and setup with tailwind v4
Exercise has been going great, I feel so motivated hitting the gym each morning, I can activate my body in a way I couldn't a few weeks ago.
I aim to keep doing gym 5+ times a week for the forseeable future.
Had some job inquiries recently, but I am re-thinking if I want to work on-site for the rest of my life, hybrid work has been a game changer for my mental well-being
I did however take a Japanese interview and realised I need to work on this, I can't really speak technically at all in Japanese and that's a horrible hole to have in the IT field.

2025-06-26 (Thursday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Took a journalling break while I was getting some things in order. I am doing very very well recently, signed up to a gym and have gone every day for two weeks and I feel amazing about it.
Plan to add small things on to try to get to a point where my habits are great.

2025-06-09 (Monday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Went for a short run
Mostly troubleshooting again for KU work, I feel like 4 hours a day is not a lot of time to work on big things, I really want to just work 8 hours then not work the next, but when I tried it I got so many messages the next day and ended up basically working anyway.
Rained so I needed to do drop/pick for my kid and do a few house related things, thus my study suffered.

2025-06-05 (Thursday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

A lot of things to do lately but I needed a bit of a break, heading to Shizuoka today to see a friend for a couple of days, he owns a bar so i'll work in that for a couple of nights.
Going to use this as a nice chance to reset, as I'm not happy with my production lately.

2025/06-04 (Wednesday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Using city gym until my favorite one reopens, at least I can get in the zone there.
Didn't do Journal for a week so taht isn't great.
Went into Kidsup yesterday to troubleshoot some things with IPADs, was nice to see people again.
Need to figure out a JP study thing since I probably need fluency to get a nice job at this rate.

2025-05-27 (Wednesday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

IT work: Waiting on results from a few mtgs i need to have but they were rescheduled to Thursday, as a result I'll probably chill out a little on Kids up stuff today and work overtime Thurs/Fri to finish.
Health: Trying to eat healthier, GYM still isnt open near me so I'm exercising at home, it's a bit harder to get into a real zone at home so I am trying to adjust my diet too.
My kid felt better today so he's at day care and I can get things done.

2025-05-27 (Tuesday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

General: Managed to do daily tasks, child is sick so a lot of things were missed today which I am hoping to catch up on.

2025-05-26 (Monday)

[] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Kidsup IT: I'm trying my best to fix things the right way with updated tests and analyzing the problem properly before adding quick fixes, as a result I think I'm getting better at recognizing what the correct approach is in a quicker manner.
Exercise: Run after kidsup work block.
General: Tried setting just a few tasks, and decided I am not going to have a casual drink at night for a little while, I think I can work more from 8-midnight here and there, but I never do when I have a drink, last night I sat there fixing some hobby stuff from 8pm-1am and I felt so good about it.

2025-05-23 (Friday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Kidsup IT: Made time estimates for most tasks that I could.
Exercise: Managed to get in a really good workout, trying to be consistent putting this at the utmost priority and it's working.
General: I think I can be much more productive, I keep overwhelming myself with how many tasks I want to complete, need to try this new method of less pressure.

2025-05-22 (Thursday)

[] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Kidsup IT: managed to fix a few big bugs today that were sitting there needing to be done for a while now.
Study: Got some practice in with nvim stuff, but actually for KidsUP work I've been using vscode and I kind of feel like as I get better at it it might be better for me. We will see as i continue to practice this a little bit.
Exercise: As I said this will become a priority, I decided that this is the one non excusable thing I need to do every single day, before I moved to Japan fitness was my lifestyle really, my hobby. As I lived far from a gym here and corona happened I kind of fell off the wagon and it's at a point now where I kind of hate myself for it, the journey to healing that starts with making sure I work out daily and can get myself back into that sort of culture.

2025-05-21 (Wednesday)

[] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Kids up IT: Getting a lot of the things that have been on the menu to fix for 6 months done which feels fantastic.
Incredibly sick today, woke up with a searing headache at 3am and a fever, just pushing through to get basic things done.
Exercise: From Thursday this will become the new priority to make sure I can get it done daily.

2025-05-20 (Tuesday)

[x] Exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Need to rework how I am doing my schedule, maybe I might move the part time block to the afternoon, it's easier to focus hard when it is paid work so I think if i can move my study related things to the morning when I am the most motivated that might fit better.
For today I am doing KU work through the usual 10-2 block.
Managed to do some good IT study and I am having better discipline with doing TDD development every time rather than taking shortcuts here and there. There is surely a balance between doing things the 'most optimal way' and speed so I am trying to find that balance, but the end result must be a good product.

2025-05-19 (Monday)

[] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

I am terrible at keeping a Journal.
I got a lot of study in and ended up spending most of my spare time doing Odin project stuff and Kids up work
I was in the zone a little bit working through some kids up LMS changes so I just worked way overtime doing it.

2025/05-15 (Thursday)

[x] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[]x IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Exercise: Almost fixed my back, keen to work out tomorrow.
IT related: Created party system, worked on new homework teacher's view.
Life: Saw a friend from Australia today, it was nice to walk around with someone and talk about Aussie related stuff.

2025/05-14 (Wednesday)

[x] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[]x IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Exercise: Back is actually almost normal, did a few dumbell exercises and stretched out
Japanese: Still not consistently doing anki, maybe a hard goal needs to happen by 10am cuz its hard after work
Family: Had some really fun family time, and decided id just start waking up earlier since the little one has been jumping on me from 5am while i try to sleep in.

2025/05-14 (Wednesday)

[] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Exercise: Back felt a fair bit better so taking a rest day
Motivation: Not a great day for achievements, I started working on a few things and got distracted, decided to take a walk and ended up loitering around for a fair while, had some family time after and never got back into it.

2025-05-13 (Tuesday)

[x] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Exercise: Back is feeling a bit better which is good, went for a run.
Study: Decided I should work through Odin stuff for react and js, I feel like my actual just programming skills have worsened, in terms of simple leetcode style problem solving. I spend most of the time figuring out routes and front end stuff lately.

2025-05-12 (Monday)

[] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes: Exercise: My back is officially ruined, not sure how it can still be so sore so this might be chair related, trying to fix my posture a little through the day. Dev work: Decided the best time to practice my new setup is learning new projects, so i'll be continuing that old odin project react course, might help with productivity on github. Kidsup: designing and implementing bulk billing procedures which is both interesting and kind of scary.

2025-05-09 (Friday)

[x] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes:

Japanese: Didn't have time to study much which bothers me.
Exercise: "Back is still ruined from rows, but went for a run!
Dev work: Been addicted to building up my linux environment lately, but it feels a bit like procrastination as that is taking over actual study, or is this also study? Also fixed up a few things on an old react site.

2025-05-08 (Thursday)

[x] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes: Exercise: Pulled my back doing rows, hurts real bad. Kidsup: Built up all the homework views and had a longer meeting with Daniel and Leroy

2025-05-07 (Wednesday)

[] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search
[] YouTube Progress

📝 Notes: Already getting inconsistent with these entries which bothers me, it seems if I don't have actual Kids Up work it's hard to think about doing my Journal, I will improve! Exercise: Really sore from daily workouts so I am having a rest today, maybe i'll run at night. Kidsup: Remodelling a system I added previously, as I move into using nvim over vscode I am realizing how hard it is to manage my git tree without a visual representation. Freelance work: It's harder to bring in a bunch of new stuff than I thought, but I definitely haven't been as consistent as I would like.

2025-05-02 (Friday)

[] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search
[] YouTube Progress

📝 Notes: Youtube: I am still considering if I should even be going in this direction, it would be a nice thing to track / check myself but it's also just more work for not a lot of reward. Wins: Fixed some server crash issues for kids up, which taught me a little more about how to diagnose issues on linux. JP thoughts: Still not using anki, need to set a daily goal Exercise: Started using dumbells at home and i'll just do intro lifting until the local gym reopens.

2025-05-01 (Thursday)

[x] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search
[x] YouTube Progress

📝 Notes: Mood: Fantastic, very motivated at the moment. Wins: I am getting some time to clean up a lot of messy code for kidsup JP thoughts: I really need to stay consistent with Anki, and to read as a hobby. IT thoughts: Dual booting linux on my home PC has taught me a lot, going to make the switch to nvim from tomorrow as i've been working on my nvim setup. I chose to go with lazyvim. Exercise: I've been doing a terrible job on this front as I was waiting for my old gym to reopen to which is hasn't, might start a proper schedule with dumbells at home rather than just aerobic stuff.

2025-04-21 (Monday)

[x] Morning exercise
[x] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[x] Japanese Study
[x] IT Self-Study
[x] Freelance Work / Client Search

📝 Notes: Mood: Pretty good Wins: I managed to set up a schedule for things to come JP thoughts: I need to do anki while going through my morning routine IT thoughts: I want to make a proper NVIM config while I'm reading practical vim so that I can work with it daily.

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[] Morning exercise
[] Kids Up IT Work Block (10am-2pm)
[] Japanese Study
[] IT Self-Study
[] Freelance Work / Client Search
[] YouTube Progress