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2015.06.22 Morning Coffee: Numbers, Book Club, and Your Daily Routine

Morning Coffee is a user-created discussion series where Snapzu members can check in with each other in a relaxed environment.
We are experimenting with different formats and ideas, so feedback is very welcome!

Welcome back, Snapzites! Monday is here again — it truly is relentless.

Yesterday's Weekly Digest revealed some big digits. Snazpu users posted 1098 snaps and held 2165 discussions! We welcomed 309 new members over the last week, which is both impressive and indicative of a subsiding storm at a certain part of the web (the preceding week we had twice as many incomers). We've reaped the benefits of the exodus, and we're fortunate that it has brought some wonderful people into our community. Now, though, our main source of growth will once again be the invites we share with other communities and users.

A big reminder to all book-lovers to check out the Monthly Book Reading topic and submit your nonfiction and fiction recommendations (particularly the latter)! The submission deadline has been extended by one day, so head over there and take part.

Yesterday was Father's Day. It's joyous for some and difficult for others, but it's a meaningful day nonetheless. If you'd like, share with us how you spent your Father's Day, or say a little something about the father figure in your life.

Finally, what does your daily routine look like? Share a little about your work, or the subject you study, the things you love and hate to do!

P.S. I realize this edition of Morning Coffee is quite late, but we're an international community and it's morning somewhere!

8 years ago by Moderator with 16 comments

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  • bogdan (edited 8 years ago)
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    I was looking at the /t/books post and I could only see non-fiction there, which is why I didn't get involved. Are you sure it's up for belletristic literature too?

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    My routine is generally going to work, doing computer-related things, talking to my colleagues (most of which I'm lucky to say that are great people), and coming home. I sometimes go to the gym and sometimes play tennis / football with friends after work, other times go out and catch up with some of my old friends. I usually get home and get depressed thinking of the futility of life, and then I bury my head in personal projects / games to forget it.

    Towards the end of this week I'll have to be heading to London with work related activities (I work for a travel company), so I won't be as active around here for some time.

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    Sadly for you, it's not morning anywhere at this time! Unless someone is living in the Pacific Ocean between America and Asia - it's 9am in Alaska.

    • Moderator
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      I was looking at the /t/books post and I could only see non-fiction there, which is why I didn't get involved. Are you sure it's up for belletristic literature too?

      I've spoken to drunkenninja about editing the post with the accurate info. Indeed, it's been a couple days since the fiction category was added. Also, I've never heard the phrase 'belletristic literature' uttered without an air of pretentiousness around the corner, but it was actually somewhat charming coming from you. So, well done!

      I usually get home and get depressed thinking of the futility of life, and then I bury my head in personal projects / games to forget it.

      I feel you, man. I'm actually planning on creating a community here to help deal with that kind of thing.

      Sadly for you, it's not morning anywhere at this time! Unless someone is living in the Pacific Ocean between America and Asia - it's 9am in Alaska.

      Get out.

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  • drunkenninja
    +6

    Yep, we would love some more recommendations for the monthly book reading! So... go and make yours today as we start voting on all of them tomorrow!

    Father's Day went well, spent it at a family BBQ where I was put to the task of grilling the meats. Lots of good beer, company and silliness. Overall a great day.

    As for my routine... I get up at 6am (most of the time), have my coffee at 7:30am, I work on a computer so I'm almost always online and I work until roughly 4pm. I hate that I'm prone to office tans, so I work really hard on making sure I do stuff outside to suck up the sun. I also don't believe in fake tanning, so it makes my situation that much more complicated :D

  • caelreth
    +4

    Spent my Father's Day with the family. My wife had to work a little bit during the day (she owns her own business, so that's pretty typical :)), and I was at her shop fixing a couple of things. But, after that, we went to a friend's house and swam in his pool and then we all went out and saw Inside Out. A good movie, I highly recommend it.

    My daily routine... I get up at 6 and am at my office by 7 AM. I teach at a community college and this summer I spend a total of 8 hours a week in the classroom, so the rest of my time is spent sitting in my office. Not as many students in the summer, so grading and such doesn't take a ton of time - meaning I spend a lot of time looking at snapzu :)

    • Moderator
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      Sweet, that sounds like such a chill day.

      I teach at a community college and this summer I spend a total of 8 hours a week in the classroom, so the rest of my time is spent sitting in my office. Not as many students in the summer, so grading and such doesn't take a ton of time - meaning I spend a lot of time looking at snapzu :)

      Looks like we've found a new demographic to go after.

      • caelreth
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        It is a chill day... but also a bit mind-numbing at times. I tend to click my snapzu "home" button a lot :)

  • Cheesemangeur (edited 8 years ago)
    +4

    Daily routine would be to get up, curl up on the sofa with the cat and my laptop, browse a few webcomics and manga scans, reddit and snapzu. Then I get ready for work and spend most of the day so busy that I have little spare time for thoughts about my social life. Once work is done I come back home and curl up on the sofa with the cat and the laptop again.

    Then there's dinner + watching shows with my boyfriend. Some evenings I will join some friends.

  • Jupiter7
    +3

    Morning routine... Get up, sometimes get some breakfast, go to work. I work at a electronics manufacturing company and handle incoming assemblies for manufacturing and sometimes continue handling them. Usually theres at least one issue with this particular customer that I need to handle. The last two days I've been studying a damn screw because the customer picked one that breaks things. Then at 4pm I go home and try to do as little actual work as possible.

  • spaceghoti
    +3

    My Father's Day was spent doing a few chores while my Lady was off at work (out, damned spot! Out!), replying to Father's Day thoughts from my children (living in another country with their mother) and practicing for the upcoming wedding.

    My daily routine begins with cursing at my alarm and trying to pretend that I can ignore it, then getting up and finding something quick and easy for breakfast. I am neither imaginative nor talented at coming up with things to eat. Usually I mix up a Carnation breakfast drink and call it good. Then I sit down and browse online for half an hour to kickstart my brain. Finally I wash and dress for work where I spend nine hours answering phones for a technical support desk.

    You are perhaps familiar with the most interesting man in the world? That's not me.

  • picklefingers
    +3

    I don't really have a daily routine. Of course, I have a morning routine to get myself clean and fed, but beyond that, nothing is really set in stone. It'll be work, school, or relax. On relaxation days, I might see if friends want to do something. I guess I'm sort of a boring person haha. But I just don't have as strong of a desire to be doing something every single day of my life like some people do.

  • aj0690
    +3

    Great to see that there have been almost 1000 new users in the last 2 weeks. That's incredible and I hope the pace keeps up.

    My daily routine is boring but comfortable. I get up, go to work (office job), have lunch (basically right now) and then go home. Then I have some free time if anything is going on, if not I don't mind relaxing at home and catching up on some TV shows or movies. Rinse and repeat until the weekend.

  • Tawsix
    +3

    Sadly, I'm 4600 miles from my folks, so I visited with them on Skype (my grandfather as well.) I talk to them every weekend so it wasn't anything too special, but it was certainly a different way to celebrate Fathers Day.

    My daily routine is trashed since summer break started. I don't think I've done the same thing twice in a row (even my sleep schedule is wacked.)