From last week's plans:

• Complete contact preferences feature and admin feature for forums (Drupal) Skipped
• Give
  two presentations at work (LinkedIn and Twitter, Totally Rocking
  Presentations at IBM) and submit a third (I.B.Millennials: Working with
  and Learning from Gen Y)
• Sew a nylon bag for carrying lots of stuff I have my own tote! =)
• Host a dinner get-together That was a surprisingly satisfying Saturday supper salad and sorbet soiree. =)
• Have a facial Ow!

I also:

• Accepted a challenging new assignment at work – Web 2.0 and Gen Y parts of strategy workshops with top clients, oh my!
• Had a garden salad with radish and lettuce sprouts
• Helped W- and J- do awesome things with my sewing machine
• Read lots of books
• Found out
• Biked a bit

Next week:

• Handle any issues in the Transition2 roll-out (seems pretty okay for now, looks like our lessons learned from last phase did the trick)
• Get ready for next two assignments
• Prepare presentations
• Blog thoughts
• Take pictures of sewing projects and garden
• Document lessons learned

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From last week's plans

• Social Recruiting Summit
• Taking the Stage: The Power of Voice
• Develop Drupal system – Transition2 Got the forums to mostly work
• Coach clients on LinkedIn
• Prepare presentations More work needed
• Attend sprouts class Skipped, decided to learn this on my own instead. $40 could buy a lot of seeds. =) Started mung beans and mustard seeds.
• Dinner party Postponed to next week.

I also:

• Sewed a laptop case with pockets for my power adapter, iPod, mouse, and other gadgets
• Attended W-'s extended family's Father's Day dinner and had tons of fun =)
• Uploaded some pictures
• Played shutterbug with W- and J-. It's like Punchbuggy, but you have to shoot the Beetle
• Planted marigolds and strawflowers in the front flower boxes, near the new blueberry bushes
• Read lots of books =)

Next week, I plan to:

• Complete contact preferences feature and admin feature for forums (Drupal)
• Give two presentations at work (LinkedIn and Twitter, Totally Rocking Presentations at IBM) and submit a third (I.B.Millennials: Working with and Learning from Gen Y)
• Sew a nylon bag for carrying lots of stuff
• Host a dinner get-together
• Have a facial =)

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From last week's plans

Relationships

• More photography, tidying up

Wealth/career

• Give presentation on ABCs of Boomers, X, Ys, Zs (nonprofits and generational differences)
• Fix more Transition2 bugs, add new partners
• Prepare for "Awesomest Job Search Ever" and "Totally Rocking Presentations at IBM" talks
• Fix my Linux partition

Skills/personal growth

• Write more articles / blog posts

Health/fitness
Bike to work on Friday =) Stayed home instead.

Also:

• Planted blueberry bushes
• Made my own eye mask from my fuzzy cat fabric

Plans for next week (this week, really):

• Social Recruiting Summit
• Taking the Stage: The Power of Voice
• Develop Drupal system – Transition2
• Coach clients on LinkedIn
• Prepare presentations
• Attend sprouts class
• Dinner party

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From last week's plans:

• Relationships: Play with photography Posted new phonos.
• Wealth/career: Revise guide, prepare Transition2 build, give Early Career Conference presentation, prepare other presentations Rocked Early Career Conference presentation (50 people, stick figure fun!), revised guide, etc.
• Skills/personal growth: Make dream book, play with photography, learn Send in the Clowns and more of Fur Elise, get more fabric =), sew blouse: Made dream book with pictures of photography, gardening, and sewing. Learned some more of Send in the Clowns and Fur Elise.
• Health/fitness: Explore High Park on my bike Still haven't. =) Got busy gardening!

Also:

• Went to the dentist
• Spent a day putting in the vegetable plot, yay!
• Had a massage – awesome!
• Took a self-paced course at IBM

Next week (this week, really):

Relationships

• More photography, tidying up

Wealth/career

• Give presentation on ABCs of Boomers, X, Ys, Zs (nonprofits and generational differences)
• Fix more Transition2 bugs, add new partners
• Prepare for "Awesomest Job Search Ever" and "Totally Rocking Presentations at IBM" talks
• Fix my Linux partition

Skills/personal growth

• Write more articles / blog posts

Health/fitness

• Bike to work on Friday =)

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From last week's plans:

• More Transition2 work – finish event-related bugs Another day, another build… Things are progressing nicely!
• More LinkedIn and Facebook coaching – prepare guide Well on the way towards a LinkedIn 101 guide for investment advisors and insurance agents
• More presentations – finish slides and notes! Delivered a presentation, submitted another one
• More gardening! Started seeds, yay!

Also:

• Watched Up – awesome!
• Checked out 22 books on gardening from the library, mwahahaha
• Cut out gingham check pieces for Vogue blouse.

Next week (well, this week, really):

• Relationships: Play with photography
• Wealth/career: Revise guide, prepare Transition2 build, give Early Career Conference presentation, prepare other presentations
• Skills/personal growth: Make dream book, play with photography, learn Send in the Clowns and more of Fur Elise, get more fabric =), sew blouse
• Health/fitness: Explore High Park on my bike

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From last week:

• Revise our event calendar some more I think I've gotten a handle on those pesky timezone problems…
• Fix up the partner access model, pass tests DONE!
• Finish prepping for some of my upcoming talks In progress
• Write that monthly overview Did it after starting to work on this weekly review. Felt it was easier to just do it than to keep carrying the task forward…
• Start thinking about the next dress I want to make, maybe a little black dress Still thinking! Keeping an eye out for nice patterns
• Bike every day I've exercised every day. Does that count? =D

I also:

• Solved database problems
• Helped my team avoid a lot of complexity and lower our estimated time needed by convincing the team to adopt a simpler approach
• Watched Star Trek with W- (whee!)
• Sorted out my flight arrangements for California
• Borrowed a large number of books from the library
• Started helping another client learn more about LinkedIn and Facebook
• Started on "Send in the Clowns", which is one of my dad's favourite songs

Next week:

• More Transition2 work – finish event-related bugs
• More LinkedIn and Facebook coaching – prepare guide
• More presentations – finish slides and notes!
• More gardening!

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From last week's plans:

• Work: Merge development changes into release-4
• Work: Build event calendar system
• Work: Get feedback on presenter guide
• Work: Attend speed mentoring event in SecondLife
• Work: Mentor more people on Drupal
• Garden: Encourage plants to survive Brussels sprouts and cauliflower plants look like they've gotten eaten by local wildlife. Catnip was completely dug up; rescued tattered remains and put them into a pot, and they seem to be okay. Basil's thriving. Yay!
• Piano: Learn Pachelbel's Canon, Memory Played these for my mom on Mother's day. yay!
• Sewing: Pin-fit blouse pattern, start making muslin; make spring skirts Ignored this in favour of pretty Vogue 8020 dress with princess seams because I bought a few yards of cheerful and slightly glittery butterfly fabric =)
• Blog: Write monthly report Heh, still not done

Also:

• Baked apple-walnut muffins, mmm
• Had a great chat with my mom about encouraging happiness at work =)
• Coached people on LinkedIn and other tools/ideas
• Had lunch with a number of my mentors
• Attended Science Rendezvous
• Biked a bit!
• Got a bike rack installed
• Delegated organizing get-togethers, for now
• Filled out my GoodReads profile
• Learned a lot about JQuery and Drupal =D
• Learned a lot about getting Date+Calendar to do what I want (also Drupal)
• Received acceptance notice for IBM Early Career Conference, yay!

Next week:

• Work: Finish AJAX behaviour for event calendar
• Work: Build new Drupal access model for our partners
• Presentations: Prepare for upcoming presentations
• Sewing: Finish dress
• Blog: Write that monthly report
• Life: Host a get-together

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From last week's plans:

• get better at making design documents, thanks to my team members' feedback They're happy with the design documents I wrote, AND I learned how to use the documents to improve my programming thinking, too!
• prepare background research for upcoming talks More talks to prepare! =)
• develop a presenter's guide for internal conferences Put some basic notes together, yay!
• spend some time going through some of the great learning resources we have at work Haven't done so, but blocking out time to do this on Saturday
• mentor a colleague on Drupal application development It's fun to help!
  
• sew a skirt Finished my red wool skirt =)
• sew a muslin for a blouse Haven't started
• sketch five new stick figures Drew some cats
• … and continue to have and share tons of fun! Totally!

I also:

• Submitted my personal business commitments and individual development plan, with plenty of insights from my mentors (yay!)
• Got the hang of playing Chopin's Prelude Op. 28 No. 6, yay! Next: Pachelbel's Canon, then Memory.
• Planned and planted our garden: garlic (from last year), rosemary (from last year), basil, oregano, thyme, hot peppers, jalapeno peppers, bell peppers, tomatoes, onions, strawberries, and mint. We'll see how many of them survive this week. =)
• Played lacrosse catch with W- and J-. Fun!
• Handled more errands on my bicycle.
• Learned a little about playing the flute.
• Attended Isaac Ezer's totally awesome house party. Feeling the urge to attend social dancing sessions again.
• Attended a charity gala. Interesting excuse to dress up in a terno. Made a wrap myself using some pretty (and inexpensive) sheer blue fabric.
• Coached people on virtual conferences.
• Helped out at a training session in SecondLife.
• Hired another virtual assistant (hi Mylene!).
• Discovered that Linda Ristevski's also into sewing clothes. Looking forward to swapping stories and pictures!
• Chatted with Dries about Drupal, fun!
• Read a whole bunch of books, improved my book workflow a little bit more (borrowing idea from Mel about using Goodreads+VA to manage to-read list)

Next week:

• Work: Merge development changes into release-4
• Work: Build event calendar system
• Work: Get feedback on presenter guide
• Work: Attend speed mentoring event in SecondLife
• Work: Mentor more people on Drupal
• Garden: Encourage plants to survive
• Piano: Learn Pachelbel's Canon, Memory
• Sewing: Pin-fit blouse pattern, start making muslin
• Sewing: Make spring skirts
• Blog: Write monthly report

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From last week's plans:

• Work on Transition2 some more. Design phase…
• Share my experiences with delegating illustration Yay!
• Finish the two blouses I'm sewing I should've followed my hunch that the interfacing I bought was too heavy and the collar style I checked using a muslin was unflattering. Oh well! I've bought lightweight interfacing and I'll shelve the other blouse until I find a collar style I can use to rescue it.
• Send my paperwork after getting the new salary letter Hooray! Hooray hooray hooray hooray! I sent in my paperwork for permanent residency, so now it's just a matter of waiting to see if the Canadian government (which had been pretty nice when it came to taxes) will give me residency before my work permit expires.

I also:

• shared my Drupal staging and deployment tips, finally
• got an e-mail from Dries because of that post!
• got invited to give a presentation at the IBM Technical Leadership Exchange – *squee!*
• had great conversation with
• prepared my personal business commitments for the year, with some handy metrics
• prepared my individual development plan for the year, with great insights from my mentors
• made lots of maps: how I manage my money, what makes me happy, what makes me happy at work
• experimented with sending a newsletter to a small random sample of my LinkedIn contacts
• started updating our installation profile at work
• practiced more piano – got the hang of the left hand of Tolling Bells
• learned a little bit of Notes customization
• sketched some more in a reflection on happy-do
• fixed the template issues on my internal IBM blog, hooray
• biked a little less than 18 km (9 going, 9 back) so that I could buy some sewing supplies from downtown. Yay!
• attended Simon Boccanegra performed by the Canadian Opera Company – hooray!
• …and prepared muffins for breakfast for four days! =)

Next week, I plan to:

• get better at making design documents, thanks to my team members' feedback
• prepare background research for upcoming talks
• develop a presenter's guide for internal conferences
• spend some time going through some of the great learning resources we have at work
• mentor a colleague on Drupal application development
• sew a skirt
• sew a muslin for a blouse
• sketch five new stick figures
• … and continue to have and share tons of fun!

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From last week's plans:

• Work on the next version of Transition2 Did some design and some prototyping
• Give a talk on making the most of Sametime Unyte
• Put together that guide for remote presentations Bunch of blog posts – still needs to be tidied up
• Get back into drawing stick figures Person, cat
• Experiment with delegating illustration or animation. Delegated Twitter background design to some of the illustrators I added to my oDesk team.

I also:

• Helped at a Web 2.0 brainstorming workshop at work
• Did a quarterly review 
• Refined my processes for managing talks
• Fully funded my RRSP, yay!
• Learned how to play The Entertainer. Now working on Tolling Bells…

Next week, I plan to:

• Work on Transition2 some more
• Share my experiences with delegating illustration
• Finish the two blouses I'm sewing
• Send my paperwork after getting the new salary letter

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From last week's plans:

• Clear up Transition2 issues Production seems to be stable now, and development on the next version has started. Yay!
• Moderate a panel at Mesh, attend the afterparty That was fun!
• Give a talk at the Women in Technology group That was also fun! =)
• Tweak my task management process a bit more – maybe look into Org integration over the weekend? I find myself really liking the ability to review and add to my Toodledo from anywhere. Hmm.

I also:

• Found a few more potential mentors
• Had a great lunch conversation with Steve Mann and Ian Garmaise
• Fell off the waking-up-early wagon
• Rode my bicycle a lot! Yay!
• Played catch with lacrosse sticks some more. Getting the hang of it.
• Got a great transcript for one of my talks – can't wait to do more!
• Refined my talk management process =)

Next week:

• Work on the next version of Transition2
• Give a talk on making the most of Sametime Unyte
• Put together that guide for remote presentations
• Get back into drawing stick figures
• Experiment with delegating illustration or animation. That would be interesting… =)

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From last week:

• Deploy new release of Transition2 Lessons learned
• Ride my bike! =)
• Work on organizing talks, ideas, and material some more Thought about possible ways to organize the information

Also:

• Explored task management systems
• Played catch using lacrosse sticks =)
• Started sewing a blouse
• Found someone for sewing lessons
• Coordinated with other IBMers interested in virtual conferences
• Had a great conversation with my manager
• Experimented with outsourcing transcription – yay!

This week:

• Clear up Transition2 issues
• Moderate a panel at Mesh, attend the afterparty
• Give a talk at the Women in Technology group
• Tweak my task management process a bit more – maybe look into Org integration over the weekend?

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From last week:

• Sort out Transition2 bugs Getting ready for release!
• Finish proposal
• Get Smart presentation on IBM Web 2.0 tools That rocked!
• Finish at least two forms Hooray! Almost done, I think…
• Try Angelo Racoma's VA service Asked them to get started on that managing-VAs project
• Give feedback to Timebridge Yay!

Also:

• Filed our taxes, oh my =)
• Got a bike! =D
• Set up a couple more talks
• Helped team members learn more about Drupal
• Automated more processes
• Caught up with some friends
• Reviewed my plans and set up some short-term projects
• Received interesting posts about career advice from two of my VAs, after I challenged them to write me something more than the usual platitudes. One posted, one to follow.

Next week:

• Deploy new release of Transition2
• Ride my bike! =)
• Work on organizing talks, ideas, and material some more

=)

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From last week:

• Fix defects detected during Transition2 testing
• Update all the user documentation for Transition2. On hold until we get all the defects sorted out and things stop changing
• Saturday: Deliver short talk to Drupal Peru on Totally Rocking Your Development Environment That was tons of fun!
• Chat with Jeff Widman regarding outsourcing Also talked about consulting and passion
• Explore Batchbook for contact management Seems interesting. =) I have a two-month free trial – let's see if it becomes part of the way I work.
• Look for a web-based GTD-compatible task management system that integrates well with e-mail; RTM? Batchbook? Probably Remember The Milk…

Also:

• Met up with Mesh panelists
• Helped with a proposal
• Presented DrupalCon wrap-up at IBM Drupal Users Group meeting
• Gave feedback to someone from Tungle
• Getting the hang of this delegating thing… =)

Next week:

• Sort out Transition2 bugs
• Finish proposal
• Get Smart presentation on IBM Web 2.0 tools
• Finish at least two forms
• Try Angelo Racoma's VA service
• Give feedback to Timebridge

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From last week:

• Finish phase of Transition2 project. Now doing testing and documentation.
• Prepare and deliver career talk on "Making a Name for Yourself". Talked to approximately 30 people.
• Print out all the paperwork I need. Sigh, paperwork…

Also:

• Experimented with TimeSvr
• Talked to my mom
• Ran into usability problems with Tungle, switching back to Timebridge
• Nursed a cold
• Picked up a scanner/printer that works with Linux

This week:

• Set up Dragon NaturallySpeaking on our desktop
• Fix defects detected during Transition2 testing
• Update all the user documentation for Transition2
• Saturday: Deliver short talk to Drupal Peru on Totally Rocking Your Development Environment
• Chat with Jeff Widman regarding outsourcing
• Explore Batchbook for contact management
• Look for a web-based GTD-compatible task management system that integrates well with e-mail; RTM? Batchbook?

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From last week:

• DrupalCon 2009 in Washington! Gave a talk on Totally Rocking Your Development Environment to approximately 300 people, and had tons of fun learning from lots of people at the conference.
• Hang out with Sameer Vasta. Give him birthday book and cookies. =) Enjoyed going around Washington on Saturday, too. Yay metro and Ben's!
• Organize my library book notes. Not done, although I've returned all the other books already.
• Outline my talk on March 14. Not done yet, but I'll work on that tonight.

Also: I came home to a wonderful scavenger hunt! I'm such a lucky gal… =)

My priorities for this week are:

• Finish phase of Transition2 project – some more Drupal code to write and tests to run.
• Prepare and deliver career talk on "Making a Name for Yourself". The session will be two hours long and we expect 80 people to attend.
• Print out all the paperwork I need. I need to extend my post-graduate work permit, renew my visa, apply for permanent residency, and appeal health care. Lots of paperwork!

I'm also planning to attend a few events during the week, and to meet up with a number of people. Busy busy busy! And I still need to write up my notes from DrupalCon…

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From last week:

• Clean up source code and get it ready for a week's absence. Passes all the unit tests, hooray!
• Get ready for DrupalCon trip. I've been invited to another panel, so more preparation – and I haven't even finished that blog post for my own session yet! =)
• Delegate some more tasks and figure out how to help people become better web researchers. Posted demo and process. =)

I also:

• Picked up my new passport (ooh, shiny).
• Discovered the joys of the Ubiquity extension for Firefox. =)
• Started on our taxes.
• Made mussels marinara with W-! Mmm mm mm… =D Also am starting to really get the hang of those muffins.
• Assigned a bunch of other tasks to my VA team.

Next week:

• DrupalCon 2009 in Washington! Give session on Totally Rocking Your Development Environment, participate in panel on staging and deployment practices.
• Hang out with Sameer Vasta. Give him birthday book and cookies. =)
• Organize my library book notes.
• Outline my talk on March 14.

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From last week:

• Move Transition2 to the latest version of Drupal 5 and make sure all the test cases still run Yup. Until something broke again. Still have to figure out what's going on with our tests
• Start doing more integration testing, now that others have made progress on their parts Working on other features while waiting
• Interview more candidates for sysad and virtual assistant positions Hired a bunch of people, yay! See my VA-related blog posts.
• Sew myself a circle skirt Done. Totally channeling the 1950s!
• Experiment with a magazine-style Wordpress theme Tweaked my theme.
• Send books to my mom Not done yet.

In addition, I

• Had great one-on-one sessions with my manager and with my manager's manager
• Helped my team members do a lot with Drupal
• Learned a lot about delegation
• Picked up a lot of fabric! =) Started making slacks.

… but as is usually the case when I write late weekly reports, there's a lot more that has slipped away because I hadn't written it down somewhere. =|

Next week (or what's left of this week, really):

• Clean up source code and get it ready for a week's absence
• Get ready for DrupalCon trip
• Delegate some more tasks and figure out how to help people become better web researchers
• Try capoeira
• Delegate calendar management

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From last week's plans:

• Attend Drupal Camp Toronto organizers' meeting, figure out task delegation Everyone was happy with the sponsorship letter I drafted, and we're working out a system for managing tasks.
• Give lecture at York University – Schulich Business School on Enterprise 2.0 That was lots of fun! Recording is on my blog. More than 500 people have viewed this so far… wow! Current est. ROI: offline: 134%, online: 9900%, total 2631%.
• Give talk on Totally Rocking Your Development Environment for the IBM Drupal Users Group That went really well, too! It was a sneak preview of my upcoming DrupalCon 2009 talk, and I learned that I somehow managed to pick up a bucketload of tips while working on various Drupal projects. I have way too much material to fit into the real talk, so this will be interesting.
• Interview people for system administration project This has been going well. Turns out interviewing people is less scary than I thought it was! In fact, scheduling things was so painless that I'll be interviewing a whole bunch of people for a potential part-time personal virtual assistant position too…

In addition, I:

• Finally got all the test cases to work again! Fighting bit rot and interactions is hard work!
• Had lunch with a bunch of interesting Web 2.0 folks at the Social Friday 2.0 lunch organized by Aaron Kim
• Delighted my project manager by referring him to the social media consulting tips for community tools that I'd developed in January last year
• Delighted various IBMers by referring them to my bookmarks for Enterprise 2.0 metrics and ROI, my presentations, and other cool things
• Survived a week of many meetings and presentations
• Figured out how to post picture-in-picture recordings of my presentations
• Am getting better at remembering to set up everything I need to record, and at having backup ways to capture my presentations
• Received the coat and books I'd ordered online
• Upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress
• Had to have my iPod reflashed
• Baked some blueberry muffins
• Attended a geeky get-together at HackLab celebrating the 1234567890th epoch second.
• Chatted with a number of people about networking
• Explored systems like BatchBook, Relenta, and SugarCRM for web-based contact management; jury's still out on this one
• Fully moved my calendar and mail over to Google Apps for my domain
• Got treated to daing na bangus from scratch by the ever so wonderful W-, who deboned the fish himself (!)

Happiness. =) (And Inbox Zero, for the most part!)

Over this weekend and next week, I plan to:

• Move Transition2 to the latest version of Drupal 5 and make sure all the test cases still run
• Start doing more integration testing, now that others have made progress on their parts
• Interview more candidates for sysad and virtual assistant positions
• Sew myself a circle skirt
• Experiment with a magazine-style Wordpress theme
• Send books to my mom

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From last week's plans:

• LifeCampTO and a dinner party, oh my! That was a lot of fun. Check out my notes and social network analysis.
• I'm going to bake a pie =) More like apple crumble – the lattice top was a bit too thin. =) Next time, I'll try a solid top crust, and I'll double the crust recipe. Mmm!
• I'll review all the use cases for work and ask lots and lots of questions Lost my questions when I messed up my Lotus Notes, but that's okay. Now in development phase! =)
• I'll improve the abstract submission process for my conference system Added a couple of fields they asked for, but I'm not sure if we'll continue with the face-to-face event.

In addition:

• Had a great conversation with Ted Stanton, Aaron Kim, Will Pate, and Josh Newman about the ROI of Web 2.0, social networking, social network analysis, innovation diffusion, and research
• Had a great conversation with Jeff Widman about networking, life, and personal outsourcing
• Had a great conversation with Ida Shessel about networking
• Rewrote the sponsorship letter for DrupalCampToronto. Another organizer said the new letter was fantastic! All those sales and copywriting books did sink in after all… Next: Learn about delegating and tracking tasks.
• Stumbled across agreeadate.com in the process of thinking about how to help Katie Bartlett coordinate appointments. Started using it a lot myself.
• Moved myself over to Google Apps. Have set up a  workflow involving TwitterCal, Emacs, Google Calendar, and Google Apps Calendar.
• Messed up my system while trying to figure out good way for Windows and Linux to co-exist while presenting. No reliable solution found, so it's back to slides for the webconference. Actual DrupalCon presentation will be live, though.
• Ordered books from Chapters, including a book my mom requested
• Ordered a webcam and had it sent to a family friend in the US, as part of a birthday gift for my mom
• Set aside money to try outsourcing, and have identified technical task (migrating website and mail). Hiring people on oDesk. Part of birthday gift to Mom

Next week:

• Attend Drupal Camp Toronto organizers' meeting, figure out task delegation
• Give lecture at York University – Schulich Business School on Enterprise 2.0
• Give talk on Totally Rocking Your Development Environment for the IBM Drupal Users Group
• Interview people for system administration project

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