Please excuse me as I ramble about hyperfixation for a minute

!journal: As I'm typing these words, it's 6:07am on a Sunday morning. I know it's humid out because the humidity is causing the finger print sensors on the door locks to beep. The cat feeders have just hit and the cats are milling about. I can hyperfocus on things. I've mostly thought of this as a feature and not a bug because it usually means I can move mountains at work when I'm in this mode. Recently, I've been hyperfixated on working on my website and my homelab stuff but like in an unhealthy way. It feels a lot like when you get a jingle in your head and you can't stop humming or singing it, but I'm consumed by it. I must do the thing. It's been games like EVE Online or Factorio. It's been projects like my aquariums. Lately, it's been building my homelab and website. This affects my life negatively because I end up using all my spoons on whatever I'm hyperfixated on, which means I have fewer spoons[1] to do anything else. I need to mow the grass, for example. I've been putting it…

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