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Weekly review: Weeks ending October 7 and October 14, 2011

We’ve just come back from a short trip to the Philippines (Oct 5 – Oct 15) where we celebrated my sister’s wedding. It was a lot of fun, and I can’t wait to see how life unfolds. W- and J- took practically all the pictures, so I’ll post them and stories from the trip as we get things sorted out.

From the other week’s plans

  • Work
    • [-] Tidy up more project T issues – partially complete, more work to be done next week
    • [X] Import data for project O
    • Filled out new computer form, yay! Looking
    • Found SME for prjoect T, briefed on project
  • Relationships
    • [X] Celebrate anniversary – dinner at Dr. Generosity
    • [X] Spend time with family
  • Life
    • [C] Delegate blog-checking to virtual assistant – Cancelled, not needed
    • [-] Add library pickup check – Not yet implemented
    • Added clothing analysis to home dashboard

Plans for next week

  • Work
    • [ ] Project T: Catch up on tasks, prepare for launch
    • [ ] Project O: Catch up on work, set up integration server
    • [ ] Project I: Follow up on SQL Server configuration
    • [ ] Pick up new computer, replacement badge?
  • Relationships
    • [ ] Help J catch up with school
    • [ ] Share stories from trip
    • [ ] Catch up with laundry
    • [ ] Catch up with blog comments and email
    • [ ] Go to Quantified Self Toronto meetup (Friday)
    • [ ] Go to secondary schol info night
  • Life
    • [ ] Take it (relatively) easy

Time analysis

Vacation threw my schedule out of whack, in the best way possible. Timezones confused my time-tracking thing, too. So, no pretty graphs this week!

Jet-lag assisted days, once things settled down:

Day Woke up Slept Waking hours Slept
2011-10-07 5:44 AM 11:23 PM 17.65 6.35
2011-10-08 7:30 AM 7:30 PM 13.43 10.57
2011-10-09 6:46 AM 11:42 PM 16.93 7.07
2011-10-10 7:48 AM 11:52 PM 16.07 7.93
2011-10-11 5:32 AM 9:36 PM 16.07 7.93
2011-10-12 7:50 AM 9:59 PM 14.15 9.85
2011-10-13 7:31 AM 9:36 PM 14.08 9.92
2011-10-14 7:57 AM 11:13 PM 15.27 8.73

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