Weekly review: Week ending December 16, 2011
| review, weeklyFrom last week’s plans
- Work
[X]Follow up on possible next engagements – got next Drupal project lined up, starting Tuesday[X]Work on high-priority project O tasks[X]Follow up on project T- Helped organize a potluck at work
- Resolved some more project T issues (next time, change fewer things at launch!)
- Discovered that using two computers instead of two screens makes coding faster; may rejig virtual machine setup or move memory from my personal machine to see if I can get this kind of convenience on one computer
- Agreed on next Hello Monday comic
- Relationships
- [/] Help fix up the house again – in progress
[-]Add more memories – postponed[X]Send Christmas cards and packages – sent most of them[X]Post blog review
- Life
[X]Plan Android app for self-tracking- Updated learning plan: time budget, learning plan, detailed outline / updates
- Set up my Android development environment again
- Figured out how to receive the SEND intent from other applications – Quantified Awesome now listed as one of the send options for Tap Log Records, yay! Now to flesh that out
- Completed story mode for LEGO Harry Potter 5-7 – awesome game
- Emacs: Configured artbollocks-mode.el for my writing goals
Plans for next week
- Work
[ ]Wrap up project O[ ]Get started on project CG[ ]Write about lessons learned from project O[ ]Catch up on e-mail
- Relationships
[ ]Tidy up house[ ]Consider planning holiday or post-holiday get-together[ ]Send rest of Christmas cards
- Life
[ ]Reconsider outsourcing; identify possible tasks and tradeoffs[ ]Parse CSV from Tap Log Records in Quantified Awesome Android app[ ]See about simplifying/automating my weekly review – put data on one page, then consider Emacs integration?[ ]Catch up on e-mail
Time analysis
I slept quite well this week. To my surprise, work was pretty decent too – must have been because I didn’t work on the weekends. I’ll probably do a little work this week because we want to get in more testing and bugfixes before we wrap up this project.
| Activity | Average | Weekday average | Weekend average |
| Sleep | 8.8 | 8.1 | 10.3 |
| Work | 6.2 | 8.7 | 0.0 |
| Discretionary | 4.8 | 3.8 | 7.2 |
| Unpaid work | 2.4 | 1.2 | 5.4 |
| Personal care | 1.9 | 2.1 | 1.1 |
Let me see if reporting the averages will help me format this table better when it comes to making archives. =) Long tables require more work in formatting, because I have to make them span columns well. I still have the information I want – how much time I have for discretionary activities, how much I work, how much I sleep, and so on.
Hmm, I might reduce my weekend sleeping a little bit, since it’s more of an indulgence than a necessity at this point.
| Activity | This week | Last week | Delta | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ! Discretionary | 33.2 | 30.3 | 3.0 | |
| ! Personal care | 13.0 | 14.2 | -1.2 | |
| ! Unpaid work | 16.9 | 13.1 | 3.8 | Batch cooking |
| A – Sleep | 61.2 | 61.3 | -0.0 | |
| A – Work | 43.6 | 49.1 | -5.5 | |
| D – Emacs | 1.5 | 1.5 | ||
| D – Family | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | |
| D – Harry Potter | 3.6 | 0.3 | 3.2 | Finished story mode =) |
| D – Other | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.2 | |
| D – Play | 4.7 | 4.7 | ||
| D – Quantified Awesome | 6.4 | 11.7 | -5.3 | Fixing bugs, working on Android |
| D – Read | 0.2 | 0.9 | -0.7 | |
| D – Social | 3.4 | 5.6 | -2.2 | |
| D – Travel | 2.0 | -2.0 | ||
| D – Writing | 12.8 | 9.3 | 3.5 | |
| P – Drink | 0.4 | -0.4 | ||
| P – Eat | 4.9 | 6.2 | -1.2 | |
| P – Plan | 0.3 | 0.3 | ||
| P – Routines | 5.6 | 4.9 | 0.8 | |
| P – Walk | 2.1 | 2.8 | -0.7 | |
| UW – Cook | 7.5 | 1.6 | 5.9 | |
| UW – Other | 3.4 | 3.4 | Errands | |
| UW – Other travel | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.8 | |
| UW – Subway | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.5 | |
| UW – Tidy up | 3.5 | 10.2 | -6.8 |
We’ve added a night-time ritual of building with LEGO. =) It’s fun.