chore: post

config/data/tag-aliases.js

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ export default {
   fastmail: '#Email',
   gmail: '#Email',
   grindcore: '#Grindcore',
+  health: '#Health',
   ios: '#iOS #Apple',
   javascript: '#JavaScript',
   'last.fm': '#Music',
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ export default {
   macos: '#macOS #Apple',
   music: '#Music',
   privacy: '#Privacy',
+  productivity: '#Productivity',
   react: '#JavaScript',
   rss: '#RSS',
   'social media': '#SocialMedia',

src/posts/2024/everything-is-a-checklist.md

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+---
+date: '2024-02-28'
+title: 'Everything is a checklist'
+description: 'The author ruminates on routine, mental health and productibity.'
+tags: ['health', 'productivity']
+---
+- [x] Wake up at 4:15am
+- [x] Start exercising by 4:30am
+  - [x] Throw TV or movie on in the background
+  - [x] Aim for 1600+ calories, be satisfied with anything over 800
+- [x] Finish exercising by 6:35am
+<!-- excerpt -->
+- [x] Check off what was watched on [Trackt](https://trakt.tv)
+- [x] AirPods in, start an audiobook or text to speech in [Readwise Reader](https://readwise.io/read)[^1]
+- [x] Check [Todoist](https://todoist.com)
+  - [x] Make coffee
+  - [x] Feed all 4 dogs
+  - [x] Feed the guinea pig
+  - [x] Do dishes
+  - [x] Start laundry
+  - [x] Take medication
+  - [x] Drop the kiddo off at school
+- [x] Check my calendar
+- [x] Start music
+- [x] Start work
+  - [x] Meetings
+  - [x] Code reviews
+  - [x] Tickets in, tickets out
+- [x] Pick the kiddo up from school
+- [x] Finish work
+- [x] Hang out with the family[^2]
+
+*Check, check, check, clear the queue, close the rings, get to zero.*
+
+I know this looks neurotic, it is neurotic because *I'm* neurotic. I always have been, or at least as long as I can remember.
+
+I've got anxiety and this helps me cope with it — other things do too, but routine is important and, when you get right down it it, that routine is a series of boxes that get checked.[^3]
+
+*Check, check, check, clear the queue, close the rings, get to zero.*
+
+> "I'm on a good mixture, I don't wanna to waste it"
+> - The National, *City Middle*
+
+[^1]: At 2x, [sorry Keenan](https://gkeenan.co/avgb/hot-take-its-okay-if-we-dont-consume-all-of-the-worlds-information-before-we-die).
+[^2]: This is the **BEST** part.
+[^3]: This also explains a why I have ~37,000 completed tasks in [Todoist](https://todoist.com).