Monthly review: February 2016

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All right! On to the next phase of this experiment: easing into parenting. We welcomed the newest member of our family this month, whee! Now for a crash course in learning all the skills needed to help a tiny human survive and thrive… It's been an intense week and a half, but I'm slowly learning how to relax into it. W- is totally, totally awesome. It helps that he has been through this before and can remind me to not panic.

I've been able to squeeze in a little writing, coding, and sewing. Consulting is on hold for the near future, and all the things I used to do have been turned over to a wonderful and capable team. Emacs News and other community things are also on hold. I'm looking forward to resuming them when things settle down, but if anyone wants to volunteer, feel free.

Lots of learning ahead, which probably means lots of notes, sketches, and maybe even blog posts when I have the time to try to organize things into some semblance of coherence. =)

Blog posts

Sketches

Time

These time records are slightly out of whack, since I didn't update them when I was Rather Preoccupied. I'm slowly getting the hang of my new tracking routines now that I want to track both myself and the baby (her diapers and feeding).

Category Period 1 % Period 2 % Diff % h/wk Diff h/wk
Business – Build 0.2 0.8 0.5 1.2 0.9
Discretionary – Play 6.7 8.6 1.9 13.5 3.3
Unpaid work 9.5 14.0 4.5 22.1 7.6
Unpaid work – Childcare 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Discretionary – Social 0.9 1.2 0.3 1.9 0.4
Discretionary – Family 6.4 2.5 -3.9 4.0 -6.5
Sleep 40.9 34.9 -6.0 54.8 -10.1
Business – Connect 0.8 0.7 -0.2 1.0 -0.3
Business – Earn 5.6 4.0 -1.6 6.2 -2.7
Discretionary – Productive 12.4 8.8 -3.6 13.9 -6.0
Personal 16.6 20.7 4.2 32.6 7.0
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