An entry on a Thursday? Say what?
Whatever. My life sucks right now. But what doesn’t suck is this new kickass computer. I love this thing. It took me three weeks to work on the Samsung Book Go. I worked on this HP Pavilion Laptop – 14t-dv000 yesterday. The first day I got it!
I’m so in love. I hate slow technology. I hate it when I’m faster than the computer; then we have a problem.
So, I am supposed to be practicing talking slower and enunciating.
Talking out loud did help me put things a little into perspective. So I think I want to do it every day after I get off work. I should do it before work, but my brain doesn’t wake up until around 9. Recently I’ve been starting work at about 6:50 AM.
I called animal control on my neighbors. More about that this weekend if I have time. I just got an email from my manager about a particular project and overtime. She didn’t say when the OT is available. But I need the money, so I’m doing it this weekend if possible. This project is not something I’m really familiar with. I’m NOT doing more than an hour or two of OT if I hate it. But, if I’m good, fast, and don’t want to poke my eyes out, I will do at least 5 hours of OT this weekend. It’s not time and a half due to MLK, but I don’t care.
Anyway, I dictated with Dicition.IO (Free) after work today. I have to leave a lot out because it wouldn’t make sense without knowing much about my job.
Here is what I dictated. It took a lot of editing because my speech sucks.
Testing. OK, so I’m going to try this transcriber. Is it working so far? Weird. But I want to try this. I have to keep my voice down. People might be listening.
So I’m going to do this for a little bit just to see. I had many things I wanted to dictate.
I’m going to do like a what did I do this week kind of thing? Oh my gosh, I worked all weekend. Then, Monday, I took kind of a break. Well, not really, but kind of.
I try to be optimistic about work, which kicks me in the ass. I think it’s time to stop that work. I don’t know that I don’t like it. But, today, I realized that I do like some aspects of it. Like I want to work in a fast-paced environment as long as I can sit down.
I think I’m talking too fast again. But yes, I do like the dopamine hits of working quickly. But unfortunately, I’m going slow, and the system is slow. So there’s a lot of waiting, which does nothing for me like I can’t work like that. I never worked like this where it was just it was so slow since June or whatever 2020.
So that’s enough about work. Let’s talk about business. I could take on a new client for less money. I’m thinking about that maybe this weekend. I always say I’m going to do stuff on the weekend. In other words, this will never happen. But, if I have the time and the energy, I’ll do it.
It’s so hard to talk so slow because I think fast. I want to get the new computer up and running, which will take a few hours.
All I’ve been doing is working, and my book—kind of put on hold. I guess I could work around that. Something that’s fun and something I’m passionate about. It’s not about money at all. I may do that tonight. I’m looking at my to-do list for tonight.
I was supposed to go grocery shopping, but I don’t really need groceries now.
So tonight think focusing on the book would be good and it’s different. Plus, it’s not work, so that’s good. I’m tired of always working. So yeah, working on the book tonight is a good idea. I’m just editing.
Okay that’s the end. I will not be blogging “my talks” daily. This took way too long to put in a blog post. Anyway, I need to talk clearer. The pace is probably not the problem.
I’m going to go edit chapter two of my book now. I’m thinking about turning my book into personal essays. I don’t like personal essays unless it is written by Roxane Gay.
Onto doing something.
Thanks for reading. I might be back this weekend. I have a lot to say that I was too scared to transcribe. And sorry for the errors. I can’t spend two hours editing dictation. 🙂