Woops & personal infometrics

Ok, ok. I know I said a few times I’d post a bit more often and then proceeded to not post at all. But hey, at least it’s consistent! ;-)

Lately I’ve been dabbing into personal infometrics; statistics on a personal level. Two of the things I track are the amount of caffeine I consume, and the hours I sleep. See the correlation already? Now normally speaking you would say: less caffeine during the day means better sleep at night. I now have proof that this not the case. What the cause of my lack of sleep is, is a completely different subject altogether.

However, since I track both I can correlate these 2 together and come to amazing conclusions;

As long as I consume no more then 3 cups of caffeine-holding drinks (cola, coffee etc.) a day my sleep is pretty much the same as without consuming any caffeine. I also seem to sleep more on a Tuesday-evening – opposed to a Saturday- or Friday-evening (remember; I have the Wednesday’s off)

This combined with my Positivity Ratio tracking has led to some interesting finds about my life and insights I might not have had before.

In the future I want to also start tracking my sugar-intake (in terms of cubes or spoons I consume in my decaf coffee, tea etc.) to see if there is a correlation there.

Now, if you are interested in finding out more about personal infometrics, feel free to check out these sites;
For Positivity Ratio scoring; http://www.positivityratio.com (I highly recommend the book!)
For all other types of tracking; http://www.zealog.com (in case you need an invite; please let me know in the comments as I got a few to hand out)

Just like someone I know says; if you don’t track it – you will never know the full depth and truth of it.

And my life (and insights into it) have been changed, and are changing because of it.

Keep in mind; filling in these items literally takes me 2 minutes or less a day. I used to spend (a lot!) more time on other trivial items.

Now ask yourself; what insights might it give you? Does all that working out help your weight? Do you really drink just a few cups of coffee a week? How much water do you drink a day? A week?

You never know, until you track it.

Take care, and be safe

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Bought a Samsung PL50

Well it’s been a while since I posted here – again. Things have changed in the mean time on this site as you may (or may not) have noticed. I applied a new theme which I quite like. Let’s see if it sticks :-)

On a personal note, I am doing good at the moment. Enjoying a 2 long overdue 2 week vacation spent visiting friends, family and well – shopping. One of the items I bought is a Samsung PL50 – a digital camera. It’s good to be shooting photos again, only this time with a small(er) one then what I already own. I’ll let you know how it works for me.

So all in all – life has been going good at the moment. Sorry for keeping it short, but well – back to the vacation for me!

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Wednesday is the new Sunday

In succession of my previous posting I am no longer working on Wednesday. This for the time being.

Why Wednesday? It breaks the week, and not the just the working week either. It’s a break from everything, all chores, work, obligations, appointments – everything. On these Wednesday’s I do everything I want to – as slow as I want to.

If I feel like watching (recorded) TV, or reading a book in my hammock I just do it. No inhibitions, no reservations.

As weird as it may sound but for a long, long time I haven’t had one of these days. It’s good to not to worry over obligations or appointments or work or… you get the point.

I only had 2 of these days so far, but the outlook of one coming helps me through the week. Of course during the weekend I do fun stuff as well, but this? This is different. It almost feels like meeting up with a long-lost friend.

Today I spent a big chunk playing around with photos and iPhoto. Nice little app, and it was fun. Between iPhoto and Google Picassa, I’d still pick the later though.

Having said that, I do like the integration with Facebook in iPhoto. Let’s hope Apple steps up the paste in Snow Leopard, which I have in preorder :-)

And I must admit, I’m anxious to see it. First time in a long time that I have been anxious, in a good way, about technology. I missed that. I missed being able to tinker with things, figuring them out, breaking them and then fixing it all back together.

Even as it all may sound like a big step forward, I’m realistic. It will be a long, strenous road back. But I took the first steps.

And that’s always the hardest, the first step.

Take care and be safe.

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Change of lifestyle

There is no denying the apparent lack of updates from my end on this site lately. This has of course, a lot of reasons.

Most importantly, I am overworked. There, I said it and admitted it to the world. But more then that, I am going to ‘work’ on getting better – and make sure it doesn’t happen again.

The thing is, that is easier said then done. It will require a lot – from my end. But what makes me happy about this, is that it will require me to do the things I love again. And some form of excercise, which I admit – I am not looking forward to.

I’ll try to keep this place updated, but no promises :-)

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