Today I had the most terrible of moods. It came seemingly without reason. In the morning I first noticed myself unfocused. I went to the gym. I didn’t feel like working out. I was tired. When I came out of the gym I started looking at the logos of the stores at the mall. It is something which I hand’t done since my student years: assess the quality of the graphic design of my environment.

I would say 20% were good, 60% mediocre, 20% bad. I walked throughout the mall deliberately, looking with curiosity at everything, but with a judging mind, not with my usual perceptive mind. Most of the logos I could tell what was wrong with them. A kitchen company called ICARUS, the middle bar of the A and the R were almost the same height but not quite the same. I thought: if they do not notice that, then how would I trust them to install an expensive kitchen at home?

I also pondered something different for my work logs: the previous day I had sent a voice whatsapp message to my yoga teacher, and when I heard myself I saw a hesitant voice. I write much better than I speak, perhaps because I write much more than I speak, and I toyed with the idea of having video work logs, but I’m still toying with the idea. But I also have the idea that—if I do not start today—it will fade away. I will do it right now.

So I recorded myself speaking in Spanish during 30 minutes. I was uploading it to YouTube, with the intention of not having it listed but available to embed in this wiki, but then it said the 1GB file would take two hours and a half to upload, so I decided against it. But recording myself speaking was actually useful, so I will supplement my work logs with self recordings, but the recordings will not be shared. It is not worth watching anyways, it’s just someone thinking out loud.