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Today, I spent the whole day trying to optimize my blog speed and improve its performance. But it wasn't a good idea to spend so much time on it because I didn't get enough good results in return. I was also forced to roll back some of my fixes related to photos. I figured it out a bit late and didn't notice that the modern image format WebP had changed my photo colors and made them look dimmer. That wasn't acceptable at all, so the better decision was simply to restore all the photos from the backup I had created before I started manipulating them. Naturally, nobody would notice the difference unless they compared them to the originals. But for me, it mattered much more to keep the photos as close to the original versions as possible.

Yesterday I had a busy and challenging day, so I was able to go to bed early at 11 PM after sharing my post. I don’t even remember how I fell asleep so fast when I dropped onto my bed. Unfortunately, it didn’t really help me wake up on time, because I was exhausted and hadn’t slept for more than 24 hours. Of course, it made me feel sleepy during the day, and everything seemed a little strange. So next time I need to be smarter and not skip sleep if I don’t want to feel the same way again. Overall, my oversleeping gave me a great opportunity to rest from yesterday’s worries and recover my energy.

After my workday, in the evening after dinner, I usually try to walk or just bike. So today I decided to clean my bike from the dust of yesterday’s trip and ride across the forest. But it wasn’t enjoyable enough; on the contrary, I felt annoyed and uncomfortable because of the surrounding habitat.

I woke up to the sound of a lawn mower machine, and the weather was a bit cloudy. Of course, I noticed it while I was still lying in bed, and honestly, it felt a bit unusual, maybe even a little sad, to see such a cloudy day. But that’s not the main thing that happened this morning. The most interesting and sad thing happened after my morning routine, when I started my work meeting with my colleagues, and during the meeting I listened to real Tatar swearing. I even heard some words for the first time, and it was hilarious.

Finally today they shared the final results of the challenge. But it wasn't what I wanted, and my expectations were a bit different. Because they decided to share only general information without clarifying results for each participant. Instead, they shared some blah-blah-blah text about how it was nice and had special feelings. In my opinion, it felt like the hosts didn't take my reports seriously, and during the fifteen days I couldn’t see my name on the results list. Of course I had hopes until the end, but it didn't happen anyway. Still, I didn’t know how many points I reached, and I didn’t have the opportunity to compare them with my colleagues’ points. So today I decided to count it myself and celebrate my 45 points.

Well, I want to begin with my work worries. In this post I wrote that I couldn't finish my task successfully and spent so much time on it. So I had some worries about it, and I had some doubts about what my team lead would say. Luckily, everything went great, and during our daily meeting, he just asked some questions that I responded to. In my opinion, those answers satisfied him. Also, he shared some observations that he noticed about that task, and it helped me too. Overall, today I was a lucky guy because I didn't ruin my morning.

I made one mistake because I went for a walk at 29 degrees. In my opinion, I picked the hottest time of the day around lunch. Also, I didn’t take water and didn’t cover my head. At first, when I walked across the forest, everything was okay. I didn’t feel anything unusual. I walked among the trees and enjoyed the shadows. But when I left the forest and walked around the open field under the sun, I felt that something happened to my fingers. My hands became red, and moving my fingers was a bit difficult. And I had a very strong feeling that I needed to drink water. Of course, it was unpleasant and a bit scary. I had never felt anything like that before.

Yesterday I promised to share the challenge results. Unfortunately, the person responsible still hasn’t shared all of them. She only announced who won and sent some messages about how cool everything was. But honestly, I can’t fully agree with her, because during those fifteen days the rules changed multiple times. Some participants even left the challenge, and I think that’s understandable because, in my opinion, it wasn’t honest enough. I just kept sharing my reports because I had already started and didn’t want to leave it halfway. And of course, it didn’t really bring me any extra difficulties. The responsible person promised to share all the results on Monday, so I still hope to look through them and share them here.

The day wasn’t productive at all, and I spent my whole workday without any success. During the day, I got completely stuck on my task, and as a result, I couldn’t figure it out. Honestly, I really tried, but everything kept going wrong, and I just couldn’t do anything. Also, I needed to write a mini report about my task, and that didn’t go well either. Instead of a full report with results, I just described all my steps for nine hours. Of course, I’m not sure about the report, and I’ve no idea what my team lead will say about it on Monday.

Today the day was calm, and I didn’t have any issues like yesterday. So I had a good opportunity to spend this day without worries and comfortably finish my workday. However, the weather didn’t make me happy. Since the morning and during the day, the sky was covered with clouds. But the rain didn’t happen, and that was much more important because I planned to ride my bike after work. Also during the breaks, I cleaned my bike’s chain and lubricated it with special oil.

Everything happened when my uncle arrived at the traffic police office and tried to submit the documents. But the police officers didn’t accept them. Instead, they just declined and said that he needed to make an appointment. Of course, he was ready to make one, but it already wasn’t possible. All the available slots were occupied, and the next available appointment was only tomorrow at 5 PM. However, this arrangement wasn’t satisfactory, and we had only one option left: use the offline queue.

Well, the morning was a bit challenging and unusually rushed because my uncle decided to visit us so early in the morning to complete some important tasks related to his car. Really, his tasks were very important, and I can understand him. So I couldn’t ignore him and got up from bed at approximately 7 AM. But the most challenging thing happened when I tried to print some documents with the printer, and honestly, it was really frustrating for me.