James Arthur Cattell

Week notes › 2024

Week 46, 2024

Top 3 notes:

New clients(s)

I picked up 1 new client this week, and collaborated on a proposal with another. This means next month I can cover all my bills + some. No more relying on my savings, which is nice.

I haven’t yet asked for permission from my existing or new clients to blog about the work openly. But I know I’ll start getting mentioned in socials soon. Maybe I should start typing internal, client facing week notes? I like that idea 🙂 Have scheduled it for next week.

Eventbrite has paid me for The Facilitator’s Unconference 2024, so I paid fellow organiser Mark his expenses. Now waiting on an invoice from the venue, before paying Fiona and myself for our time.

On the voluntary / currently unpaid side of things, I did stuff for:

Juggling stuff

In last week’s uncompleted note, I had an empty section titled, "Something has to give...".

I now realise I was coming out of the tail end of some depression / undiagnosed seasonal affective disorder. It’s been 2 weeks since the clocks changed, which tends to hit me quite hard at this time of year.

But the big reason is Janet’s been away all month, due to a family bereavement. Not having her next to me when I’m sleeping is challenging - I miss her. Last night for example I tried a hot bath, applying all my Protopic ointment and having the bedroom windows open (I prefer a cold sleeping environment). But I was still tossing and turning at 4am 😞 That typed, I’ve got quite a bit done today. Plus I’ve been taking my very limited supply of ADHD meds all week (see below).

Upside of last night’s temporary insomnia, is that I went through my public Trello board and trimmed it, which made me feel better. List trim all the things!

ADHD meds

I currently take 72mg of prolonged release Methylphenidate. I take the whole dose in the morning when I wake up and it helps me focus throughout the day. It does a pretty good job and has certainly helped me this week.

But:

Computer says no.

There are reports of supply shortages on various government and NHS websites, but nothing about a solution. So I reckon I’m gonna have to change medication, probably to Lisdexamfetamine Mesilate. Will message my Doctor’s tomorrow. Fingers crossed 🤞🏻

Listening history

As I’m not a big reader, this is an experimental section to share podcasts I’ve been listening to.

I set up an IFTTT applet to log details of my Spotify listening history in a Google Sheet. But turns out it only logs music, not podcasts. Will look into that later. In the meantime, here’s my manually typed podcast listening history for this week, in reverse order.

Friday

Thursday

Wednesday

Tuesday

Monday

Open browser tabs

Another experimental section, this time to try and nudge me to read / close the browser tabs. Here’s what’s currently open and unread on my mobile:

In summary: