Wake-up blitz

Just about everyone who has a computer, has a morning routine aka morning blitz; That is what sites they *must* check, what they do, etc. I run through a bunch of things just to check that my servers are still up and running and nothing major has happened or is going on the forums I own or have responsibility on.

My morning routine probably isn’t all that unique I wake up, turn on my computer, start the coffee, go brush my teeth & wash my face, go back to my computer and log in, turn on a music channel on the TV then I fire up Firefox.

My homepage is iGoogle which has a Gmail preview right in the middle, right away I look to make sure there aren’t any reported posts from the forums I run/moderate on then I look to make sure my cron scripts ran and sent me an email confirmation. I open my full Gmail in a new tab and browse over my inbox. From there I open my DJ forum and search for new posts, just look over the titles to see if anything looks suspicious. Then it’s off to new posts for Discuss NY, I browse stuff that looks interesting, maybe reply on a thread or two. From DNY, I go to Web Talk Forums which is my main hangout (that I don’t own), I also moderate there but it’s a fun place I try and post on at least 1 or 2 threads a day but sometimes I just ain’t got nuttin’ to say.

After I get done with DNY and WTF I go back to my new posts search for my board and open all posts in new tabs, I read over them, reply on some then mark the forums read.

From there it’s back to iGoogle where I open Google Reader in a new tab and look at my local headlines first, then what’s new on Woot and then browse over the rest of my feeds most of its fluff so I mark all of them read.

Then, I’m done for the morning. On a good morning with no issues to attend to, emails that need an immediate reply, or security patches to install, or posts on forums that need my attention I can be done in a half hour – forty five minutes. Other mornings it can take me a good hour or two to just trudge through it all some times more. :eek:

So what’s your morning routine? My reason for bringing this up is my new exercise routine, that I started last week but am going to stick to this week. ;) My goal is to be up and out of the house for my morning walk as fast as possible however with my wake up blitz that can be a challenge some days. I think for tomorrow, I’m just going to wake up, browse my email then have breakfast and go for my walk, save the forum browsing for after I get back from my walk as long as there’s no reported posts/server crashes to attend to.

For those of you that have a morning exercise routine, how have you changed your morning blitz to accommodate it?

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