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Weekly review: Week ending October 17, 2010

From last week’s plans

  • Work
    • [X] Organize Idea Labs: Support planning for upcoming Idea Lab
    • [X] Build Connections Toolkit: Build requested improvements
    • [X] Build career: Connect with manager regarding new projects
    • Built text template tool for Darrel Rader
    • Added thread sorting to forum export
    • Submitted Lotusphere abstract
    • Submitted Community Toolkit as Hackday project
    • Attended DrupalCampToronto
    • Got back into Drupal development: prototyped with Workflow, Profile Permission, Calendar, etc.
    • Sent talk description to Adil Sardar
  • Relationships
    • [-] Wedding: Review and select pictures
    • [-] Wedding: Collect mailing addresses and e-mail addresses for everyone
    • [-] Wedding: Send thank-you notes with prints
    • Drafted most of the thank-you notes
    • Followed up with lawyers and photographers
    • Attended concert with MIL
  • Life
    • [X] Improve productivity: Reorganize house, put things away
    • [-] Sew dress: Mark chalk lines on dress
    • [X] Writing: Flesh out wedding stories
    • Starting to get back into the habit of using Org for timetracking
    • Tried out datetree for org-capture – looks useful
    • Installed Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11

Plans for next week

  • Work
    • [ ] Work on Drupal project: Learn about Features
    • [ ] Work on Drupal project: Try out CiviCRM
    • [ ] Organize Idea Labs: Support Idea Lab
    • [ ] Build Connections Toolkit: Add event feed and other information
    • [ ] Build career: Configure hard-disk encryption
  • Relationships
    • [ ] Wedding: Send thank-you notes
    • [ ] Wedding: Download and organize photos
    • [ ] Shared interests: Try a new recipe
  • Life
    • [ ] Improve productivity: Track sleep, wake-up, and snooze
    • [ ] Sew dress: Mark chalk lines on dress

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