What a week! W- and I spent the entire weekend woodworking. I’m tired, happy, and looking forward to the next week.

From last week’s plans:

Work

• [X] Facilitate Jam – also built tools for analysis, yay!
• [X] Talk to intern about GBS – Hina Khan
• [X] Keep up with related initiatives
• [  ] Update Idea Lab guide
• [X] Prepare presentation on Idea Lab process for BlueIQ
• [X] Provide feedback on project management presentation
• More thoughts on career next steps

Relationships

• [  ] Catch up with Maira Bay de Souza and Leigh Honeywell at hacklab.to – postponed to next week
• [-] Work out cleaning schedule and possible maid service – actually, I can get a lot of tidying done in the evenings
• [X] Get letter of invitation notarized and sent home
• [-] Book a photographer – all the photographers I checked are booked, will widen search
• [X] Batch-cook: two pecan pies, oatmeal cookies, sausages, ground beef mix, and curry
• [X] Write stories for influence map
• [X] Build box with floating bottom and sliding top
• Replaced the spinach with pepper plants – got five garden salads out of the spinach + lettuce, yay
• Did lots of batch-cooking to take advantage of cool days
• Three-pizza story
• Adventure: taking hardboard home (lashed it with twine)
• Talked to an OJT about my mom’s book project
• Got a toolbox and kitted it out

Life

• [X] Sew notebook covers and pouches
• [  ] Set up new webserver
• Started sewing wrap pants

Plans for next week:

Work

• [  ] Update Idea Lab guide
• [  ] Give talk on Idea Labs

Relationships

• [  ] Check out more photographers
• [  ] Catch up with Maira Bay de Souza and Leigh Honeywell at hacklab.to
• [  ] Finish box joint jig
• [  ] Make box-jointed box
• [  ] Finish influence map stories

Life

• [  ] Set up new webserver
• [  ] Take it easy