12:40pm Friday with 1.1 hrs of billable work for the day 🥶 anybody else having a lazy Friday?

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“I’ll make it up this weekend”

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Yesterday too

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Same

Bare minimum Fridays. Make it a thing.

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.6 get on my level

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Same. Exactly at 1.1

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All my days are lazy. Sometimes by choice, sometimes by force

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It’s the second half of August.

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Yeeeeep

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