Started doing 50% this month, and for the first time in years I actually feel like I get stuff done outside work. Like, not just chores and a tiny bit of fun-coding once in a honeymoon, but really spending time on coding for fun, getting something done around the apartment, just going for a walk for two hours. All things I wanted to do or try but always felt too tired, or something more important popped up. Things like, just repainting part of a wall in one room got postponed for almost a year, and now that I did it, it didn't even take half an hour and actually felt good.

I'm still working three days a week, because it's not like I hated my job, but it was quite demanding at times.

I wrestled with the idea of just reducing hours for way too long. If you do too, just do it.

It’s really a problem that work tends to expand to fill all the cracks completely. You’d think the 8-hour workday would leave 8 hours for sleep and another 8 for recreation and other necessities, but somehow in my life there’s really only about 6 hours for sleep and 2-3 hours for everything else. Some of that is kids, but it’s not the entire explanation and honestly I’m not too sure where it all goes sometimes.