Weekly review: Week ending October 30, 2015

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This was a good week for making things. I coded a bunch of patterns and capabilities in the Python-based sewing pattern generator I've been tinkering around with. Now that I can easily rescale patterns and set measurements from the command-line, I can create paper models to test ideas. It was fun doing the math for rotating points and doing simple dart manipulation, too. In addition to programming, I also finished the mass production phase of one of my sewing projects. Yay!

Good cooking this week, too. We tried this General Tsao Chicken recipe – our first time to double-fry – and it was yummmmmy. I made a pan of lasagna, too.

The Latin 101 video course I'd checked out from the library turned out to have a few errors in the guidebook, so I've been using a combination of that and Wheelock's Latin for practice. It's fun feeling things start to make sense.

W- and I started a new playthrough of Borderlands 2, the shooter/RPG we've been playing for a few months now. We picked different characters, so we've been adapting to the new playstyles required.

Some fuzziness and tiredness, but such is life. Taking it easy. =)

2015-11-01b Week ending 2015-10-30 -- index card #journal #weekly output

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  • Business (29.7h – 17%)
    • Earn (10.0h – 33% of Business)
      • Attend scraper meeting
      • Prepare invoice
    • Build (13.3h – 44% of Business)
      • Drawing (1.0h)
      • Paperwork (0.4h)
        • Include September bank statements
        • Finalize return
    • Connect (6.3h – 21% of Business)
  • Relationships (3.1h – 1%)
  • Discretionary – Productive (16.4h – 9%)
    • Emacs (2.6h – 1% of all)
      • Do another Emacs review
      • Do another Emacs review
    • Sewing (5.0h)
      • Add scale to tmtp
      • Try papercraft tmtp with my measurements
      • Programmatically rescaling and manipulating the darts in sewing patterns
      • Add SVG splitter to tmtp
      • Add seam allowances to tmtp
      • Sanity-check with someone else's basic bodice block instructions
      • Python + sewing: Making basic shapes and splitting up larger patterns
      • Circle skirt pattern
      • Box tote pattern
      • Sew box tote prototype
    • Writing (2.0h)
    • Do a chapter of Wheelock's Latin
    • Send in form
  • Discretionary – Play (17.1h – 10%)
  • Personal routines (30.7h – 18%)
  • Unpaid work (9.9h – 5%)
  • Sleep (61.1h – 36% – average of 8.7 per day)

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