Dev Log 06.15.2026: A PR Before 9:15 and the Long Road to Six O'Clock

Random Thoughts from a Restless Mind

Category: Dev Logs

Published On: June 15, 2026

🤓 The Technical: Set the alarm for 7 AM to knock out the training that was due this past Saturday. Logged on and found a QA ticket had bounced back too - one that got out of hand, still failing 1 of 13 criteria. Got the training done and the PR resubmitted before 9:15, which is 15 minutes into the actual workday, so I'll take it. Standup at 9:45, got the one assigned ticket's hours sorted and closed out, and after that the calendar was wide open. Personal projects stayed quiet. The urge to stream, catalog cards, be productive was sitting right there, but today was more about getting to the end of it than starting anything new. The Magento B2B grind is still humming underneath all of it.

😎 The Atmosphere: Finished rewatching an anime, then drifted onto YouTube and landed on an old Conan bit interviewing a very young Heather Graham, which sent me straight down a Growing Pains nostalgia hole. Started a mental list of old shows to pull onto the server - Flash Forward, My So-Called Life, the stuff I half-remember loving as a kid. Night before was a low-key movie night with a friend, something neither of us had seen. It was good.

🐶 The Coworker: Hubert and I finished the anime together on the couch, right up until I picked up my phone and he immediately bailed to the other side of the room. I'm choosing to believe that's about the heat lately and not a performance review of me. Let him out, stretched my legs, normal respectable Hubert professionalism otherwise.

😡 The Rant: The honest one this time. My dad died and I still haven't cried. I don't know why. I keep waiting for it to land and it just doesn't, or it sits as this lingering sadness I'm too tired to fully feel most days. And I don't know who to talk to about it, which is its own separate problem. On top of that, I think I'm sicker than I was willing to admit when this all started, and a part of me is genuinely scared about it. That's the rant. Not a funny one this week.

🙂🙂🙂 The Smiles: Clearing a full day's obligations before 9:15 on five hours of sleep is a small, dumb, real win, and I'm taking it. The blood pressure numbers from the cuff I bought a few weeks back keep trending the right direction too, which is something. Made it through a Monday. Some days that's the whole job.