Day plan

Friday, September 4

Improvement
Morning
6:10Wake, kiss LA on the forehead
6:12Fill water bottle, drink from it
6:15Feed cats, fill their water
6:25Scoop litter
6:30Cold shower, one minute
6:32Dry off, get dressed
6:38Pack the clothes for after. You do not come home again.
6:45Vape now. Not before.
6:50Gym parking lot. Three tabs kicked from the car.
7:40Workout, one hour
8:45Left the gym, drove to Starbucks
9:05Starbucks. MSF-08 closed, MSF-02 A, B and C closed.
12:10Left. MSF-02 D and E, MSF-03 and MSF-04 plan sessions all in flight.
12:35At Blase's, 199 Echo Ridge. Four lanes generating, nothing to kick.

One master closed and half of a second, before noon. Two budgets, and only one is scarce: a master's 240 minutes of clock is 90 of you and 150 of dead air, and the dead air overlaps every other lane, so MSF-03 and MSF-04 running side by side cost 180 active and not 480 of anything. What is left is 260 active against 325 available. You finish about 7:00.

The work day
6:50 to 12:10
T1 MSF-02 T2 MSF-08 T3 Widget build T4 Spec method
MSF-08 closed. Done.

Four tabs before you sit

Thirty minutes in the gym parking lot and three hours at Starbucks. A whole master decided and folded, half of a second one, and the spec method defined, all before you got to Blase's.

Writing the specs is off today, and not because of time. Reading MSF-01 and MSF-06 to define the method showed that decision groups in other masters have to close before either spec can be written. The method is done and the specs are blocked, so the rest of the day is decisions.
12:35 to 3:00
T1 MSF-02 D, E, then F T2 MSF-03 T3 MSF-04
115 of 115 min on you

Finish D and E, then kick F

You arrive with four lanes running and nothing to kick, which has not happened once today. D and E have 35 minutes of clock and 15 of you left each. F is blocked by B, D and E, and B is long done, so D and E are the gate.

F kicked by 1:40. A group is 60 minutes of generation before it wants you at all. Kicked at 1:40 it lands at 2:40 and you review most of it here. Kicked at 2:30 it lands at 3:30, which is survivable, and kicked at 3:00 it does not exist until 4:00 and MSF-02 closes tomorrow instead of tonight.
Blase costs 30 minutes today, cumulative. No sit-down. That is why the bar reads 115 against 145 minutes of wall clock.
3:00Drive home, 30 minutes. Three lanes generating the whole way.
3:30  ·  The hinge of the day

Kick wide, in the door

3:30Kick the next MSF-03 wave, every unblocked group
3:30Kick the next MSF-04 wave, every unblocked group

Kicking is nearly free and reviewing is not. You are driving from 4:15 to 5:15 and every tab kicked now is finished and waiting at 5:15. Kick wider than you can review: an extra tab costs nothing, and a wave you did not kick costs an hour you cannot get back.

3:30 to 4:15
T1 MSF-02 F T2 MSF-03 T3 MSF-04
45 of 45 min on you

Forty five minutes at home

4:15Drive LA to work and back, home 5:15. Every lane generating the whole way.
5:15 to 8:00
T1 MSF-02 fold T2 MSF-03 T3 MSF-04
100 of 165 min on you

The last stretch

MSF-02 fold 20, and the last 80 of MSF-03 and MSF-04 group work. 100 minutes in a 165 minute block, which puts you done around 7:00 with 65 minutes of room you have not needed since this morning.

Last wave kicked by 6:30. Kicked at 6:30 it lands at 7:30 and you have 30 minutes to review it. Kicked at 7:00 it lands at 8:00 and belongs to tomorrow. The 65 minutes of slack cannot buy back a wave kicked too late, so the spare time is for reviewing, never for waiting.
If both masters close before 7:00. Kicking the next master's plan session is five minutes of you and it generates overnight. That is the cheapest hour tomorrow will ever get.
If it goes sideways, cut from the bottom
  1. MSF-04's last group wave. MSF-03 closing on its own still proves the whole loop end to end on a master that had no groups at breakfast.
  2. The MSF-02 fold. 20 minutes, and the worst cut on the list. All six rulings exist and only the merge is missing, so cutting it leaves the master decided and not closed.

Already cut: the widget placement and the For Operators image, third day at the bottom of this list and today they came off. The MSF-01 and MSF-06 specs are not cut, they are blocked: the method exists, the decisions they depend on do not.

Never cut
The first MSF-03 and MSF-04 wave kicked at 1:00 MSF-02 F kicked by 1:40 Leaving Blase's at 3:00 The 3:30 kick, both masters, wide MSF-02 Consent Model closed Last wave kicked by 6:30 8:00, laptop shut
End of day, did it hold?