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Weekly review: Week ending November 25, 2011

We’re getting ready to launch a big project, so I’ve been working overtime. The Ruby on Rails system is coming along well, and our demo on Thursday went wonderfully. Although I’m torn between spending extra time on that versus other projects (Quantified Awesome or the Lotus Connections toolkit, for example), I’m learning a lot and I want clients to be delighted, so it’s okay for now.

I had a lot of fun at the Rails Pub Nite on Monday. It turns out that I know many people in the Rails scene, and I enjoyed hanging out with them.

A couple of weeks of crunch, and then life should be back to normal-ish.

From last week’s plans

  • Work
    • [X] Project O: Get ready for big demo
    • [-] Project O: Get to 100% test coverage – at 92%
    • [-] Project T: Bugfixes, final round of testing? – mostly there, check again Monday
    • [-] File expenses
    • [X] Move flashcard app to internal host
    • [X] Get ready for flashcard demo
  • Relationships
    • [X] Go to Rails Pub Nite on Monday
    • [X] Host study group: long division, repeating decimals, views of 3D objects, nets
    • [-] Build memories into Quantified Awesome
  • Life
    • [X] Work on user support for Quantified Awesome
    • [-] Simplify stuff interface – what would it take to make it a system my mom can start using?
    • [-] Get ready for Quantified Self Toronto demo
    • [X] Fix mobile version

Plans for next week

  • Work
    • [ ] Project O: Get ready for launch
    • [ ] Project T: Get closer to launch
    • [ ] File expenses
    • [ ] Work on Connections Toolkit
  • Relationships
    • [ ] Clear furniture so that insulation can be installed
    • [ ] Go to Quantified Self Toronto meetup
    • [ ] Add memories to Quantified Awesome
    • [ ] Get Quantified Awesome ready for other users
  • Life
    • [ ] Take pictures of rest of clothes
    • [ ] Increase test coverage to at least 60%

Time analysis

Activity Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Total Average Weekday average Weekend average
Sleep 8.8 9.9 6.5 11.2 7.9 8.1 7.3 59.6 8.5 8.2 9.3
Work 3.7 0.0 9.0 7.5 9.5 11.1 12.6 53.4 7.6 9.9 1.8
Discretionary 8.3 9.5 5.6 0.2 2.0 0.5 3.5 29.5 4.2 2.3 8.9
Unpaid work 1.6 3.0 1.2 1.3 2.4 1.9 0.0 11.4 1.6 1.3 2.3
Personal care 1.6 1.6 1.7 3.9 2.4 2.5 0.6 14.2 2.0 2.2 1.6
Activity This week Last week Delta Notes
! Discretionary 29.5 34.2 -4.8 Channelled into work instead
! Personal care 14.2 22.2 -8.1
! Unpaid work 11.4 11.2 0.2
A – Sleep 59.6 58.7 0.9 That’s good
A – Work 53.4 41.7 11.7 Lots of overtime; did this instead of playing Harry Potter
D – Break 0.9 8.2 -7.2 Less playing this week
D – Drawing 0.9 -0.9
D – Other 4.1 7.5 -3.5 Slightly less work on Quantified Awesome
D – Personal 3.6 -3.6
D – Reading 0.5 -0.5
D – Shopping 2.8 1.6 1.1
D – Social 18.6 9.4 9.2 Visiting family, going to Rails Pub Nite, helping with homework
D – Writing 3.0 2.4 0.6
P – Eating 2.2 4.9 -2.7
P – Exercise 2.9 9.2 -6.2 Hitched a couple of rides, so didn’t walk to the subway station as often as I normally do
P – Routines 9.0 8.2 0.9
UW – Cooking 3.5 5.1 -1.6 Mmm sweet potato fries
UW – Tidying 2.4 2.9 -0.5
UW – Travel 5.6 3.2 2.3

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