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As a lazy git, I make no guarantee on the frequency or quality of entries here

Also, I know nothing about design so we'll see how this goes.

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Hello, and welcome to my blog. I want to take some time today to share some tips I about dealing with mornings as a depressed and probably autistic person.

Mornings have always been tough for me. At uni, when I was free and had no restrictions I would often have my alarm go off an hour (or longer 😅) before I would get up. Before I go any further, it's worth noting that I do have depression. I think it was about 20 years of living with it before I got diagnosed. Now I'm diagnosed and medicated and that makes mornings 100 times easier. So if you're chronically fighting with yourself to get up when you should then investigate if there are medical reasons.

Placeholder: image of a snail struggling and fighting with itself to turn off an alarm.

I think I took a fairly engineering approach to addressing this problem. The process was:

1. Notice an undesirable outcome.
2. Observe how the outcome manifests.
3. Devise a systemic change that will interrupt the mechanism of the underirable outcome.
4. Make the systemic change as easy as possible to follow (a mantra I would say in this proces is "The version of Signals in the morning is not to be trusted").

Problem 1: Dismissing alarms

We've all been there. There's this horrid noise ripping you from the peace and tranquility of unconsciusness. Your heart is racing, and you feel a near primal level of anger at that noise. Your one goal with all your being is to make it stop.

And so you do.

The problem is that eventually the motions needed to turn it off become so well rehearsed that you can roll-over, fling your arm at the clock, dismiss the alarm, all before you've had enough time to realise it's a new day.

The way to disrupt it

I made this website using Neocities, and if you want to give making a website a try then check out Neocities

I'm not sure exactly what this website will be, but here's some thoughts:

• A blog about making this website :P
• Discussion of my relathionship with gender (or Gengar ... he's pretty cool)
• Tutorials on things I've learnt, since teaching is a way to solidfy understanding

More lists from the HTML tutorial

Since I'm here (and the tutorial demands it) here's and ordered list of numbers:

1. one
2. 27
3. 374i (or 374j if you're in engineering for some unknown reason)
4. Infinity (just to anger the pedants ... and myself as a subset of the set of pedants)