OK, let’s try this because my friend @assbach seems to be really excited about it 😉
The hashtag #wmdedgt stands for the german phrase “Was machst Du eigentlich den ganzen Tag?”. Read for yourself …
06:00 Uhr wake up
06:10 shower, toothbrush, towel, hair
06:25 tidying kitchen from day before
06:30 making coffee, bake rolls for kids breakfast
06:40 writing, printing, signing excuse letters for kids school
06:50 tidying up kitchen and other rooms in preparation for cleaning person
07:00 drinking coffee, chatting with kiddo about the day ahead
07:10 ironing shirt for office
07:20 discuss new medication with second kid
07:30 more tidying up
07:40 writing, printing, signing another letter for school for other kiddo
07:50 commuting to the office by bike
08:10 arrive at office, get keyboard and mouse out of the locker
08:15 first ping from a colleague, meeting via WebEx to go over some tickets and code I wrote
09:00 putting some code into GitLab to share with colleagues, tidying up the files, updating/adding documentation, writing .gitignore to exclude logs and config
10:00 having a short tea break with a colleague, chatting about getting old and feeling broken joints everywhere. Went for Jasmin green tea and forgot the bag in the cup. Now it’s tasting a little strong
10:10 further code cleanup and push to GitLab
10:20 debugging Splunk logging issues with colleagues from India
10:30 Putting first batch of #wmdedgt entries on the blog
10:40 Screenshare session with a colleague to explain a Jupyter Notebook to him
11:30 Reworking some code, trying to ignore all the contact attempts from colleagues
14:00 call from boss, escalation about some technical issue I need to get involved in
14:10 updating an internal wiki page with some vendor information
14:15 getting pizza from a shop around the corner
14:25 devouring the pizza in the office kitchen
14:40 reading up on support tickets for an upcoming call
15:00 VideoConf with a vendor
15:30 discussing with team about call
15:40 call with colleague
16:00 colleague disappointed about our call ;), start working on the code again I tried to write earlier
17:50 oh fuck that late already, need to get back home and take care of the kids I guess.
18:23 oh fuck… still in the office. Really need to head off now
18:30 finally on the bike on my way home
18:50 grocery shopping for dinner. Kiddo demanded pasta with champignon cream sauce
19:20 cooking dinner
19:45 dinner with the kids
20:10 half hour TV with the kid and a phone call with mum, printing some papers for the kid, of course does the printer run out of ink and need replacement
20:50 grocery shopping again as I need some fresh yeast for the pizza dough I need to prepare for tomorrow
21:20 making pizza dough and tidying up the kitchen
21:45 some more emails with tax office stuff
22:45 debugging some issues with some enterprise software
23:19 I should really go to bed now … maybe just one more look at the open issues …
23:35 really considering turning off the computer now
will probably exchange a few more messages with my wife and then call it a day …