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So, I've been meaning to start this thread for a while and I always forget when I'm at a terminal.
That said, I'd like to know more about the little rituals that other Paizo boarders have. I'll share one of mine as an example.
On the dashboard of my car, I have a little stuffed pony with a squeeze-for-noise widget. Whenever I get in, or start the car, I squeeze the pony and nuzzle it. For me, it's a token gesture of faith but by this point it's become a ritual for ritual's sake.
So what do you do as ritual/habit/just because?
Back at my old job, I had a very specific morning routine.
Arrive
Drop off my backpack and stuff in my cube
Turn on my computer
Take my footstuffs to the break room, put breakfast in the microwave
Pick up my work stack from one of my co-workers
Head back to my cube, picking up breakfast and a soda on the way
Log onto computer, start eating breakfast
Check Email
Check Darths and Droids
Check xkcd
Actually log into the work program and start working
Now that I'm not working anymore it's kinda slacked though.
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Back at my old job, I had a very specific morning routine.
Arrive
Drop off my backpack and stuff in my cube
Turn on my computer
Take my footstuffs to the break room, put breakfast in the microwave
Pick up my work stack from one of my co-workers
Head back to my cube, picking up breakfast and a soda on the way
Log onto computer, start eating breakfast
Check Email
Check Darths and Droids
Check xkcd
Actually log into the work program and start workingNow that I'm not working anymore it's kinda slacked though.
Merf on the unemployment. But that sounds uncannily like my routine at last job.
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I wake up, shower, shave, read a couple chapters of whatever book I'm reading (currently Mike Grell's "Sable" novelization), then I get the car seat out for my daughter to go to day care and prepare 3 bottles of formula for her to take. I kiss my wife, then head to work.
Not very exciting, but it gets me through.
(BTW, I had to force myself not to break out the Jimi Hendrix classic quote "I try to get up every day.")
Wake up
Make coffee
Take coffee in room
Check on my facebook account
Play my facebook apps
Check email
Migrate to the paizo boards
.5 - 1 hour after coffee = Bathroom
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I wake up, shower, shave, read a couple chapters of whatever book I'm reading (currently Mike Grell's "Sable" novelization), then I get the car seat out for my daughter to go to day care and prepare 3 bottles of formula for her to take. I kiss my wife, then head to work.
Not very exciting, but it gets me through.
(BTW, I had to force myself not to break out the Jimi Hendrix classic quote "I try to get up every day.")
*smiles* Awesome parenty story, thank you for sharing! Now I've got a warm fuzzy to last me until the next crap customer
Wake up
Make coffee
Take coffee in room
Check on my facebook account
Play my facebook apps
Check email
Migrate to the paizo boards
.5 - 1 hour after coffee = Bathroom
Huh, that sounds a lot like my wife's routine, though she doesn't do Facebook.
I was going to say the "my whole morning is a ritual" thing as well. Hell, I even have my shower broken down to a set pattern. I think we all have a way we welcome the day or prepare ourselves for it that harkens back to a more primal ritualization whether we realize it or not. Interesting thread anyway, but Mikhaila's usually are :)
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Well I don't have a morning routine as such. I prefer to call it muscle memory. I stumble to the kitchen and make myself coffee which I'll have with my coffee flavored yoghurt while going through my bookmarks.
If it's my turn to wake up with my five month old I start the day by preparing his bottle, changing his diaper and playing with him a little.
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Thank you, Netromancer. I'm just happy to have finally found a place where I can ramble about things that mean something to me without fear of flamewar.
I would tend to agree with the bit about morning ritual, though I believe that for me it's truly a sign that I am Chaotic Neutral in alignment (me the player, that is) because my 'morning ritual' changes. Frequently. Some of that is environmental (most recently, the hot water at my residence sucks in the mornings so I don't shower before work) and other times it's just circumstantial (I don't go to bed until after 8 and have to be awake at 1030.. stumble out of bed into clothes, Marine shower and off to work)
Though, for a while there my morning always included a stop at the gas station en route to work where I grabbed: Two liters of Dr Pepper (one regular, one diet), a chocolate bar (which varied day to day, so broke the 'routine') and a stick of cheese/jerky. Then they stopped the sale that was on Dr Pepper so I had to change.
Re: Julius. Yet another awesome parenty story. This makes me nosewrinkly that I can't have kids, but it warms my heart immensely that there are such awesome parents in the community.
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My mornings are hectic. In fact, most of my day is hectic. Things rarely go the way they did yesterday. I don't have as many rituals as I wish I did, to be honest.
But I did develop a new one at the beginning of Novemeber. Every day, when I sit down to write, I start by cranking out as much of a story as I can in 60 seconds. I have an egg timer sitting on my desk, and I try to do title, byline, and a paragraph of a brand new idea in one minute. It gets my creative juices flowing, and it's fun.
It also gives me at least one facebook post each day.
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My mornings are hectic. In fact, most of my day is hectic. Things rarely go the way they did yesterday. I don't have as many rituals as I wish I did, to be honest.
But I did develop a new one at the beginning of Novemeber. Every day, when I sit down to write, I start by cranking out as much of a story as I can in 60 seconds. I have an egg timer sitting on my desk, and I try to do title, byline, and a paragraph of a brand new idea in one minute. It gets my creative juices flowing, and it's fun.
It also gives me at least one facebook post each day.
Huh, might have to try that. Thanks!
I'm just happy to have finally found a place where I can ramble about things that mean something to me without fear of flamewar.
I can 'fix' that for you.
I do have a morning routine, but after reading the initial post, my first thought went to the almost obsessive compulsive ritual I have of checking my wallet, keys and phone whenever I get up out of my chair.
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I do have a morning routine, but after reading the initial post, my first thought went to the almost obsessive compulsive ritual I have of checking my wallet, keys and phone whenever I get up out of my chair.
I live in Lancashire, so this probably means a lot more to me, than to you.
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I'm just happy to have finally found a place where I can ramble about things that mean something to me without fear of flamewar.I can 'fix' that for you.
Hmm, poodle.. fix...
Poodle + fix
*grins*
As for the obsessive compulsive checking, I can totally see your bet on that. I've HAD to develop similar coping strategies just to be able to find things. And I STILL fail. Especially when I take my badge off at work in the evening after returning from lunch and leave it on my DESK rather than in my PURSE. And then I'm locked out of the building the following day. Rarfle. I can't count how many times I've NOT been obsessive about my glasses and then couldn't find them for an hour.
I can't count how many times I've NOT been obsessive about my glasses and then couldn't find them for an hour.
Boy do I empathize with that. I'm currently unaware of the whereabouts of my sunglasses, because I apparently didn't put them in the one place I always put them. In Arizona that (normally) is a must-have.
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I can't count how many times I've NOT been obsessive about my glasses and then couldn't find them for an hour.Boy do I empathize with that. I'm currently unaware of the whereabouts of my sunglasses, because I apparently didn't put them in the one place I always put them. In Arizona that (normally) is a must-have.
Yeesh, Aridzona. I spent one week there, nearly died of heat and sun. My heart goes out to you, and my best wishes for finding your shades.
Especially when I take my badge off at work in the evening after returning from lunch and leave it on my DESK rather than in my PURSE.
That is where it started for me. Forgetting my security badge twice = new obsessive compulsive behavior.
I prefer to check the pens in the feedlot in a certain order especially if it's cold. I do the field which is the biggest pen go in the shed and warm up and check Paizo. Then I do the two D pens which are closest to the shed. I usually turn the truck on on the way to the second D pen. Then I go inside and check Paizo. Then I drive to the C block and circle those. Then I go for lunch and check Paizo. Then I do the B and A blocks. Then I drive back down to the shed and check Paizo while my treatment program boots up. Then I treat the sicks and put them in their appropriate hospital pens. Then I post my treats and browse Paizo again before calling it a day.
Especially when I take my badge off at work in the evening after returning from lunch and leave it on my DESK rather than in my PURSE.That is where it started for me. Forgetting my security badge twice = new obsessive compulsive behavior.
As soon as I started being forced to wear a badge/name tag, I started leaving it in my desk. Can't afford to be chewed out for forgetting something so simple.
My daily ritual is as thus....
- Wake up either to wife's early morning flatulence or the alarm clock. Sometimes I wake up early and wait to see which will go off first!
- Race wife to the facilities. Sometimes she wins, sometimes I do.
- Shave(if necessary. Thank you, my babyfaced ancestors), Shower, Censored.
- Catch the weather and traffic report, switching over to the japanese news channel if there's time to revel in the glories of nihonese before work
- Go to work via bus if the bike is out of comission or unfold the bike(making sure to make the old school transformers noise as I do), and then go to work.
- Have adventure en route to work, whether it is the joys of chasing down the bus as it threatens to make me 5 minutes late for work or avoiding the bus and other motorized vehicles as I squeeze in 20 minutes of exercise riding the bike to work.
- Once at work, sign in, root around in desk for badge, and turn on computer to see what's going on at Paizo, L5R.com, and if it's the beginning of the month, marvel, DC, viz and dark horse to make a comic book schedule for myself.
If it fails to do these things, it gets the hose.
You tease.
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Though, for a while there my morning always included a stop at the gas station en route to work where I grabbed: Two liters of Dr Pepper (one regular, one diet), a chocolate bar (which varied day to day, so broke the 'routine') and a stick of cheese/jerky. Then they stopped the sale that was on Dr Pepper so I had to change.
Back before I moved up to the mountains, I was a roast master at a small scale coffee roaster. The roaster was in Durham and I lived in Chapel Hill. The guy who owned it also owed a cafe in Chapel Hill, so I would stop there first thing, grab six shots of expresso in a coffee cup (adding sugar and cream to make a hell of a strong cup of morning coffee), stop at a convenience store to grab a large bottle of gatorade and head into work. The only variance was in the espresso blend I would run with or the flavor of gatorade. This held true for about 4 years (and then I moved to the mountains).
These days, my morning ritual is sleep as late as I can, take out the dogs, shower and head into work.
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Though, for a while there my morning always included a stop at the gas station en route to work where I grabbed: Two liters of Dr Pepper (one regular, one diet), a chocolate bar (which varied day to day, so broke the 'routine') and a stick of cheese/jerky. Then they stopped the sale that was on Dr Pepper so I had to change.Back before I moved up to the mountains, I was a roast master at a small scale coffee roaster. The roaster was in Durham and I lived in Chapel Hill. The guy who owned it also owed a cafe in Chapel Hill, so I would stop there first thing, grab six shots of expresso in a coffee cup (adding sugar and cream to make a hell of a strong cup of morning coffee), stop at a convenience store to grab a large bottle of gatorade and head into work. The only variance was in the espresso blend I would run with or the flavor of gatorade. This held true for about 4 years (and then I moved to the mountains).
These days, my morning ritual is sleep as late as I can, take out the dogs, shower and head into work.
Awesome that you get to sleep late! My ex is from ... I wanna say Carey? Went to NC State. I've always wanted to go there and check it out, as it sounds like a nifty place.
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Well I thought about this after reading the thread yesterday and honestly I just don't have one. The closet thing I have is how I take a shower, which is basicaly i tend to wash my body starting with the same body part and ending with washing my hair.
Actually, this is what *I* would consider ritual. Doing anything the same way over time counts. At least.. to me.
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Yeah but I don't shower exactly the same way, as I said I tend to wash the same body parts in a certain order. Like arms first but right or left, not always the same one first and sometimes I don't start with a arm just most times.
So as I said that is as close as I come and it's not exactly one but it is fairly close. :)
I do the whole shower thing the same way every day, same with toweling off afterwards. It just goes faster when everything is down to muscle memory. If I get distracted I have to mentally backtrack to remember where I was in my routine.
M, T, W, Th
7:30am Wake up, take shower, drive 15 minutes to work.
8:30am Arrive at cube. Take 3 cans of coke zero, 2 protein bars, and a 3.5 oz can of albacore tuna out of laptop bag. Crack open a coke zero and take morning vitamins and energy supplements. Plug in laptop to docking station, wait to log in. Log in, start up Lotus Notes, check and respond to work email. Debate doing actual work for 30 seconds, get distracted and start catching up on Paizo board posts.
8:45am Curse the I.T. department for blocking EnWorld.
9:00am Log into Google Analytics to see how much traffic d20pfsrd.com did the day before. Check to see if there are any new referral sites linking to it etc. Log into Google Adsense to see my adsense balance. Currently averaging 25-30 cents per day woot woot! Log into Google Sites and then check Recent Site Activity for d20pfsrd.com to see what other collaborators have been up to. Make sure pages created by collaborators are following the general style guidelines etc. Make sure they are linking correctly etc. Browse Kobold Quarterly for a bit. Check out a few other gaming blogs.
10:00am Get hungry - eat protein bar #1.
10:15am-12:30pm Do a bit of real work, write some scripts for automating software builds/compiles/deploys to multiple servers.
12:30pm Lunch time - eat the 3.5 oz can of tuna.
12:45-3pm More of the same morning activity.
3pm - get hungry - eat protein bar #2.
5pm - leave work - get home, change clothes into workout clothes, go to local YMCA, do 60 minutes of weight lifting, 60 mins of cardio (treadmill), 20 minutes of sauna, shower, come home, eat dinner (mostly protein, skinless, boneless chicken usually) then get back online and work on d20pfsrd.com or surf paizo boards some more. This lasts till 2-3am with a little time thrown in occasionally for family responsibilities.
Every other Friday - Collect a sizable check.
It's a hard life.