Day 229: Scrap Test

2026-09-23Hello!While doing menial office work, I found myself bouncing between twenty different projects and tasks. They're not challenging tasks, but the sheer number of incomplete things overflowed my capacity of clarity.I hate to talk about productivity or self-help, but given that this is a mere anecdote to my larger story, I'll give the disclaimer that this is just how I view workflows: each task is a mental loop, and I can only handle so many open ends before I'm inundated. I'm the opposite of a multitasker; set lists of sequences work best for me. (There are some people I know that prefer reading multiple books at once, completing five pages of five books per day rather than twenty-five of one book. It's all alien to me.)Anyway, I had too much going on. So I broke myself away from the work to do some learning: understand the printer. Before today, I just thought of it as a machine to print paper in color or monochrome, at ludicrous prices. But does it need maintenance? What…