Too many projects

Too many projects

Still not getting caught up, but I’ve figured out a couple of important things. One, I realized I had gotten into a bad habit with Taskwarrior: I’d skip past all the overdue non-daily items to get to the daily stuff. That led to me treating all the overdue stuff as something to ignore. So I’m putting a priority on my dailies, so I can go back to ā€œdo the top item on the to-do list first,ā€ like it ought to be.

While talking to my sister, she questioned why I wasn’t taking meds for ADHD, since she’d noticed a big difference when I did so (back when we lived in the same town). I shared the gospel of Vitamin D, and said that over the not-all-that-long term the benefits of stimulants had lessened and the side effects increased. It happens for some folks, and I’m one of the ā€œluckyā€ ones who is really slow at metabolizing extended-release stuff.

But that got me to thinking, hey, is the benefit of the D ā€œwearing offā€? That would be weird, but I’m not as focused as I was. And then I realized that my new bottle of name-brand vitamins didn’t actually have as much D in them as the store-brand one had, whoops. So I got a bottle of plain D and am building my levels back up to hopefully-normal there.

Gonna talk to my doctor about trying the meds again though. Evidently there are newer not-as-extended release formulations, so maybe I’ll have better luck with one of those. Not having a vitamin deficiency helps, but there’s a limit to what it has fixed. And maybe I’ll acclimate to the stimulant in just a few months again, but at least that’ll be a few months of improved productivity, right?

Heck, if it just lasts through the plush-dragon backlog that’ll be an improvement, oof.