Week 20, 2024: I need better sleep
Hello internet friends,
This was a busy week - it started with two days of beyond Tellerrand which is always good fun. The talks tend to be good but tend to be stifled (almost literally) by the air situation at the venue. Even with the most engaging speakers I had to struggle to stay awake in the dark, warm and not very well ventilated venue. But then sleep might be a me-problem at the moment anyway, more on that later.
I opted to now drive straight home after the conference but add on a day at the office. This led to me trying out a hotel without staff - everything was done online and oh boy, that was all very creepy. And a bit fun as well: submitting a form on some random website and then watching how a door opens is quite an experience.
Talking about experiences: the drive back was one as well. Not only was there a big jam because of some pretty gnarly accident but just about an hour before reaching home, the weather decided to really show what it is capable of. It was already pretty foreboding to drive towards the dark black rain cloud and once I was inside it got really intense. The visibility dropped to a couple of car lengths. Luckily the autobahn was pretty empty by then and the drainage worked well, so while it needed a lot of concentration, it wasn't much of a challenge to keep driving.
Now let's circle back to the sleep situation - my sleep schedule is completely messed up. I might have mentioned before how lately I'm having a hard time sleeping at night but am in a sleepy drowsy state all day and have no problems at all having a nap during the day. It might just have something to do with my allergy medicine, who knows.
Meanwhile this constant kind of flow state also means that I'm neither super productive nor very interested in what the web has to offer - I hardly opened my feed reader or Mastodon so I'm completely out of the loop what happened on the internet this week. Therefore - all diary, no links today.
Be good, take care, talk to you on Sunday!