So I’m a busy guy.
This morning I was cleaning the kitchen, as Missy tasked me to do before work. (Task is an interesting word in this case. She told me to do it, while asking, so even though it’s not really a portmanteau, I’m treating it that way.).
As someone who is very goal-driven, who loves serving his dominant wife, and who craves the simplicity of being tasked, this worked out well for me.
I did in fact, get the kitchen cleaned.
So I grabbed my phone, and I wrote it down in WeMinder, and even snapped a photo and texted it to her.
She was pleased.
I however, was not.
Because as I was entering the good behavior into WeMinder, I noticed something wasn’t right with the look and feel of the screen.
After a bit of thought, it came to me. The height of the card wasn’t right, when the “behavior chip” of my 1 new good behavior was showing on the card.
It pushed everything down, making my brand new bottom navigation icons push too far down.
So I sat and reasoned it out for a few minutes.
I realized that a good fix for this problem was to reduce the height of the behavior list from “40vh” down to 25, 30, or 35vh respectively depending on if I were showing 1, 2, or no chips whatsoever.
Without getting too deep into the weeds of technical details, I figured out exactly how to do that, and got a hot fix ready, tested it, and deployed it into production in WeMinder.
It’s out there now, working just fine. I know, I checked just before I started writing this post.
But this post isn’t really about viewport-height. It’s about the heights of owning my own business, while also having a full-time job, while also serving my wife, while also being polyamorous, while also… the many other things I do.
It’s often really challenging. I have a lot going on in my life.
But honestly, that’s a blessing. My mind is pretty sharp. As long as I take good care of myself, I can maintain and even increase that sharpness.
This means I need to get decent sleep, allow myself rest, maintain good boundaries by often saying no to the things I can’t do, and practice copious amounts of self-compassion.
By and large, I really do, do that.
I’m 50 years old, and while sometimes that seems like a lot, it really isn’t.
I feel wonderfully in touch with who and what and where I am. I like the me I am, and the way I’m stretching myself to be more.
It feels good.