Technicalities.

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So today is Saturday. I suppose that means I should treat it as the weekend and take the day off. You see, back before my California gig I had come to the conclusion that one of my sources of depression was that I felt like I had to be working towards solvency All The Time. There was no time when I had given myself permission to sit back and not worry about things, and as a consequence I regularly got into a state where I felt like I couldn't face another day, and didn't want to.

I'm nowhere near that mental state at the moment, and I'd like to keep things that way. So, on the one hand it would be a good idea to spend today relaxing. On the other hand all I've been doing lately is working on this C++ library and most of that has involved book study and dissection of Boost libraries and I find I'm rather enjoying it.

So I don't really feel like I NEED to take a day off, nor do I particularly want to right now, as I might lose my momentum. Maybe I'll 'bank' today and just arbitrarily declare some future day to be a weekend and spend it watching videos or something...

Of course, all this navel-gazing may be totally moot as I'll be heading to a party this evening and there are at least another 8 similar events I have scheduled for the next few weeks. December is hardly a month to worry about working too hard.

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My rule is that if I have a coffee in my hand and pleasant surroundings, then I can read whatever I damn well please and it's 'downtime.' Could be Pratchett, could be JACM, doesn't matter.

(Of course, when I'm lucky, this results in some 'billable downtime' anomalies, but is that a bad thing?)