It has not been a horribly busy day, just one of those where there is always just one more thing to do after the current one. It is strange - or perhaps not strange at all - how draining that can feel, even as things are nice and calm within each individual thing being done.
Special activities are bad for my system!
Great for me in all other ways, but really bad for my system. Routines fall behind, pile up, things feel poorly checked on …
… how did I live like this all the time before I had a system?
Damn it, I nearly wrote another post about thinking about my productivity system without even realizing it. I thought I was starting to write about my day!
Anyway, some more holiday-type activity is coming up, and that is hopefully just what I need.
A voquestion
I stumbled on a Vocaster feature I am not sure I want during a meeting today. I accidentally started playback of a video and was told by another participant that they could hear it. I do not think I have played other sounds before, but wearing headphones and talking into the Vocaster-attached microphone, I have always assumed that the sound from my microphone is the only thing being sent to other people. I need to investigate this more. I seem to recall something about the Vocaster being able to send other audio to participants, but I have not intentionally set something like that up, and I do not quite see how that would have happened in this case. Also, I may well have set up some other type of audio routing somewhere on the computer and promptly forgotten about it. Yeah, that sounds pretty likely, now that I think about it I think I have had situations where I actively wanted to pipe system audio through to a meeting on that machine.
Tricky stuff, audio. Might take a look at it later, post holiday-type activities.
Iteration all over again
This week's episode image for Kodsnack brought the learning of the first somewhat larger direction change after the initial sketch was completed. I took a break and realized I was imagining quite different elements to the image than what I had drawn. Back at it, throw away a few things, draw new elements.
Suddenly, it all felt much better. Some very simple touches with the airbrush tool also did a surprising amount for the feel of the image, and now I once again feel I have something decent to attach to the episode tomorrow.