Boot laptop, unlock screensaver, turn on sound card (external mixer), turn on stereo amp (mixer runs into it), switch display input to the laptop (it was left set to a desktop), hit super+p a few times until laptop and display agree they are connected. Write this toot.
Too many steps?
move the bits of detritus on my desk into a neater pile to my right. First order of the day is PhD corrections. Well, I'll sneek peak my work mail incase there are any fires to put out.
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check mail quickly via aerc and imap. I'll miss this when it's gone. $NEWJOB is a Microsoft customer and the login SSO ceremony for that often takes 5-6 attempts before it works.
quicky find some background music to put on whilst I work. Launch navidrome in one tab and bandcamp in another. Find a Scanner album on Bandcamp pretty quickly, let's go with that https://quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/forces-reactions-deflections
My PhD workspace is already open (workspace "1"). I've done all the corrections for chapters 1-4, and most of the "general points", leaving chapters 5-7. 6-7 are short lists. 5 is the remaining "meat". That's where I am focussing this morning. The specific piece of feedback I'm starting with is to work in another citation.
@pwaring It's been tricky. I need to submit soon to make my scheduled graduation, so that helps a bit. Re-jigging how I present my progress to myself helped: e.g. "39/55" isn't very motivating, but observing that I'm completely done with the first 4 chapters is much more uplifting.