Today I woke up at 4am. I have a long commute, so I took my car to work and arrived at my office before 6am. Other days I take the train, which is a longer travel, but it’s cheaper, more ecological and it gives me a place for focused work. It’s 11:30pm and I just finished to review my tasks of the day and prepared them for tomorrow. I have two big deadlines for Friday and today I did not push forward one single inch in any of them. Still, as I was reviewing the day, I saw that I did check off many other tasks that also needed to be done. Some clients were benefited from that work, some others are still waiting for me.

So if I intend to grow my small corner of the world in this blog, I’d better start. I learned from Chris Aldrich that, if I am serious about something, I have to stick to it. He was talking about handwriting and taking notes or journaling with analog tools, but I’m going to take his advice and make it my own. If I want to be serious about my particular digital corner, I’d better stick to it.

So here I am, wrapping up the week and getting ready for Monday. I went through my OmniFocus review and I have a couple of dozen of things I have to do tomorrow, so it was not a pleasant review. I positively know I won’t do them all, so I marked my priorities and blocked a few slots in my calendar to make some sort of a plan. And hope for the best. But this week I moaned enough already, so I’m not going to bitch any more about how miserable my every day routine is 😉.

In micro.blog, I met a very nice guy this weekend [Michael H. Gerloff aka @kulturnation](https://micro.blog/kulturnation). He’s german, he writes in English in micro.blog and he seems a very interesting and nice guy. So that’s a good note for the week.

Oh, one thing I wanted to say a long time ago. I’ve tried mechanic keyboards enough, I’ve given them every chance. I don’t like them. I’m very happy with my Apple Magic Keyboard. It’s already a few years old and it still works like a charm and gives me my best writing experience. I always go back to this keyboard. At work I use a Logitech K380 that I like, too. But my home Magic Keyboard is the best. One thing I learned during the pandemic lockdown was to type properly with all my fingers and, although I still make many typos and my WPM is not championship-worthy, I’m the most fluent with the Magic Keyboard.

There, I’m going to bed. Tomorrow starts early.

For now, the cross-posting to Mastodon stays. Let people find estebantxo and reach out it they so wish. The link with @eumrz@esq.social will be gone, though.

Or, rather, I may reserve this garden for my most intimate things, the one’s that are closest to my heart. That might mean that linking to a Mastodon account might not be a good idea. If people find me, they find me. If nobody does, who cares, it’s just my particular and invisible corner of the world.

I guess I will slowly migrate my personal stuff from umerez.eu to estebantxo.com.

First

This is the first seed of the personal garden I want to build. My place, the corner of the world where I’ll get to be myself and collect the nice things that make me smile.

For starters, I want to enjoy the biggest smiles I’ve ever seen. Two guys enjoying a song together and living the moment at its fullest.

Chico Buarque and Edú Lobo singing Chega de saudade.

www.youtube.com/watch