Weekly review: Week ending October 21, 2011

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Back to work! Transition was smooth, thanks to some weekend time spent catching up with mail and getting things ready for a good work week. Lots of progress on my home dashboard – clothing, library, time analysis, etc. Quantified Self meetup was fun.

From last week’s plans

  • Work
    • [X] Project T: Catch up on tasks, prepare for launch
    • [X] Project O: Catch up on work, set up integration server
    • [X] Project I: Follow up on SQL Server configuration
    • [-] Pick up new computer, replacement badge? – postponed, waiting for shipment
    • Helped people with communities
    • Brainstormed ways to help improve other people’s happiness and connection at work
  • Relationships
    • [-] Help J catch up with school – next week
    • [X] Share stories from trip
    • [X] Catch up with laundry
    • [X] Catch up with blog comments and email
    • [X] Go to Quantified Self Toronto meetup (Friday)
    • [-] Go to secondary schol info night – next week
  • Life
    • [X] Take it (relatively) easy
    • Added lots of functionality to my home dashboard: clothing matches and status, library books, measurement tracking (ex: time)
    • Experimented with routine improvements: hair towel, podcasts, drawing
    • Scheduled more blog posts

Plans for next week

  • Work
    • [ ] Project O: Flesh out autosave on the form
    • [ ] Project I: Follow up on SQL Server changes
    • [ ] Project T: Follow up on pre-launch changes
    • [ ] Interview at least two people about happiness and connectivity in our consulting practice
  • Relationships
    • [ ] Help J catch up with school
    • [ ] Attend secondary school info session
    • [ ] Sort and share pictures
  • Life
    • [ ] Take notes on library books
    • [ ] Copy measurements into home dashboard

Time analysis

Activity This week Last week Delta Notes
! Discretionary 42.4 106.0 -63.6
! Personal care 16.6 16.6
! Unpaid work 14.6 14.6
A – Sleep 52.8 62.0 -9.2 Timezones, jet lag?
A – Work 41.6 41.6 Back to work
D – Break 0.8 0.8
D – Delegating 0.2 0.2
D – Drawing 0.8 0.8
D – Other 10.6 10.6
D – Personal 16.2 16.2
D – Reading 1.0 1.0
D – Social 5.6 106.0 -100.4
D – Writing 7.1 7.1
P – Eating 1.1 1.1
P – Exercise 3.8 3.8
P – Routines 11.7 11.7
UW – Cooking 1.9 1.9
UW – Tidying 5.6 5.6
UW – Travel 7.1 7.1
Category Average Weekday Weekend
Sleep 7.5 7.5 7.6
Work 5.9 8.1 0.6
Discretionary 6.1 3.7 11.9
Unpaid work 2.1 1.9 2.6
Personal care 2.4 2.8 1.3

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