Potato mode on!

Taking the whole next week off, so it's going to be a nine days stretch including the two weekends.

I was told not to when I wanted to take the first week of August off, so I postponed my break till now, and even if I was told not to again, I would do it anyway, else I would burnout. It's that bad.

So potato mode is on, yippie! ^_^

To all colleagues and especially managers and project leads, please take it as the 'do not disturb' sign is up, I do not want to hear anything about work these nine days.

I am not that important. Whatever it is, it can wait a week.

It has been exhausting and stressful for a prolonged period. Time for me to catch up on my sleep and my mental wellbeing.

Let the recuperation and rejuvenation begin!

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27:30

一周前那个周末还好，只是加时工作了五个小时半。是属于好命的周末。

两周前那个周末是催命的周末，做了二十三小时六分钟，比周日还要伤。

刚过的周末是夭折的周末，做了令人怀疑人生的二十七小时半…

周末前的星期四做到晚上十点十五分，星期五做到晚上九点五十三分，昨天星期一做到凌晨十二点零一分。

是的，我根本没有生活，就只是整天工作的丧尸。

丧尸也会累！所以跟老板说我需要歇一歇，他让我今天补假一天。

为了项目经理明天可以跟客人开会提议新项目，我今早还是得工作，准备相关的资料和报告。忙完已是午餐。

命贱如我，半天假也好过没有啦…

随兴随想 |系列|

Rubbish out rubbish in

Despicable scumbag replaced by another despicable scumbag, equally contemptible, equally vile and rotten.

Bunch of morons. What a circus. What a joke.

This country is so screwed.

Makes my blood boil.

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愚者多劳

聪明的人，懂得讨价还价，懂得说服老板设一个正常合理的期限。

愚蠢的人不懂得说不，就靠卖命加时工作来赶在催命期限前完成工作。

聪明的人明白越卖命赶工，就会换来更多的工作和催命的期限。

愚蠢的人陷在恶性循环中，而且还不断变本加厉。

今天，愚蠢的我暴走，不到六点半我就下班了。

总得突破那恶性循环吧？

会不会因此丢了工作我就不知道啦…

唉，家里唯一收入来源和责任感太重的人的悲哀。

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I went out (12)

Since the previous entry of this series, I was out of the house eleven times, so my total out of the house count stands at 74 as of today.

64th outing: went out on 1st of June, intended to drive the car around to keep the battery healthy, but the battery was flat again, less than a week since I last drove. Jump-started the car for the second time and proceeded to drive around.

65th outing: went out on 11th of June to drive the car around to keep the battery healthy. The old battery was dead, tried in vain to start the car on 2nd of June, a day after my previous outing, but no dice. So I replaced the battery between then and 11th of June. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

66th outing: went out on 20th of June to drive the car around to keep the battery healthy.

67th outing: went out on 26th of June to drive the car around to keep the battery healthy. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

68th outing: went out on 3rd of July to drive the car around to keep the battery healthy. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

69th outing: went to office on 6th of July to hand in legal documents for patent filing. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

70th outing: went to office on 9th of July to work.

71st outing: went out on 12th of July to chauffeur wifey for books and lunch purchases. Also went for my first Covid-19 vaccination.

72nd outing: went out on 25th of July to drive the car around for a bit to keep the battery healthy. Took the opportunity to buy dinner home.

73rd outing: went to office on 2nd of August to work and to get my second Covid-19 vaccination. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

74th outing: went out on 15th of August to drive the car around for a bit to keep the battery healthy. Took the opportunity to buy lunch home.

As of 15th of August 2021, 515 days have past since the beginning of Movement Control Order on 18th of March in 2020. I have been out of the house 74 times in 73.6 weeks, so 1.01 times per week on average, or about once every 6.96 days.

Here are the main reasons I went out:
- drive around to keep car battery healthy: 18
- work at office: 25
- bank: 1
- grocery: 1
- pick up takeaway meal: 9
- dine in restaurant: 1
- clinic: 2
- customer service: 1
- car service: 2
- pet shop: 1
- chauffeur duty: 11
- law firm: 2

Stay home. Stay safe.

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Mashed potato

I would love to go into potato mode in the weekend.

After all, weekend is the time for us to rest, relax, recharge for the coming weekdays when work resumes.

For something to resume, it has to stop or pause first. So I guess in a sense I am not resuming work, since it has not stopped or paused.

So no potato mode for me, I am just a really mashed potato, close to rotten.

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23:06

Twenty three hours and six minutes.

That's the time I spent working overtime in the past weekend. Basically I worked through the weekend.

That 23 hours 6 minutes included the ergonomic breaks, the bio-breaks, and the water refilling time. It does not include meal time.

It's solid working hours without meeting or instant messages disruption. It's longer and more effective working hours than normal working weekday.

Normal working day is cramped with all sort of disruptions and interruptions, leaving scant productive working time, which leads to working overtime.

Sad but true, and absolutely unhealthy.

Finally completed the thermal model and set it to solve while I catch up on my sleep around 01:00 hours this morning. Thankfully it converged when I woke up, no serious debug needed, giving me the buffer to run other cases before the Thursday deadline.

Sent the now verified working model to the new hire my manager assigned to help on the project, then post-processed the case and sent the report. Heard nothing from the new hire throughout the day so I proceeded to work on the case, on top of the cases for another project.

Can always trust and rely on myself to get the job done.

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