Set up a Pomodoro timer called “Mini-Tomato" that is 10 minutes cleaning up files on the laptop and 10 minutes cleaning up the place.

Unnecessary, inefficient, and fun.

The experiment for the day is to use the Reminders app to remind me of random stuff in the future. When I stumble across some quote or cool thought, I am scheduling them in Reminders for random dates in the future.

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.

The other thing I am scheduling are things like "One year ago you were thinking [thought here]" or "One year ago you wanted to ". It maybe cool to get reminded of where I was at a year ago to see how far I've moved pieces.

Two things I need to get sorted out for the plain text drum tabs are accents and buzzes. I did a little soul searching and digging around in Unicode.

Accents are easy to do with inverted breves from Slavic languages.

L̑ (U+004C with U+0311 - combining inverted breve above)
Ȓ (U+0052 with U+0311 - combining inverted breve above)

For buzzes I realized that if I do them, they are natural so I probably don't need to clutter up the patterns. If I really need them in a pattern, I can type a note about it under the pattern, for now. This could change in the future.

When I am out and about, I get ideas for drum patterns. Sometimes I am without pen(cil) and paper, but I always have a device (phone, watch, etc.).

I could draw music notation in a sketch app; I can't do that on the watch. I could record the beat doing some sort of beatbox with a voice memo app, but I am not going to be doing that on a crowded train.

This means I need some way to get drum ideas out of the brain and into the inbox with plain text. Using R's and L's and any other characters to get them somewhere.

The patterns will live on their own page and there might be an RSS feed in the future. I am still trying to decide how to handle that.

Patterns

I switched from using a 5B pencil to an F pencil. F definitely sounds more pencil-y. The "scritch scritch" level is a lot higher. I do like the dark line of the 5B though.

My current pencil next to the laptop status is now:

• F
• 5B
• a 5B that is barely holdable