We’ve been working on repairing the deck and the patio, so the backyard is a mess. Good to spend time helping W-, though. =)

It’s getting easier and easier to focus on my own projects instead of saying yes to requests that come my way. I’m learning!

Blog posts

• Emacs, drawing, and blogging: Week ending May 17, 2013
• Slice of life: Home improvements
• Emacs Chat: Bastien Guerry
• How I use Feedburner to give people the option of different blog update frequencies
• First impressions of Artrage 4
• Visual book review: The Visual Marketing Revolution (Stephanie Diamond)
• How to make a hand-drawn highlighted web page header

Accomplished this week

• Business
  • Earn
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
  • Connect
    • Co-host Quantified Self
    • Talk to Bastien Guerry about Emacs
  • Build
    • Sketchnote a book
    • Choose a topic to package
• Relationships
  • Help with home improvements
• Life
  • Declutter
  • Garden
    • Plant zucchini, more bitter melon, bok choi, and lettuce
    • Plant lavender
    • Add compost and move bok choi

Plans for next week

• Business
  • Earn
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Assist with sketchnoting workshop
    • [ ] Talk to GN about B sketchnotes
    • [ ] Sketch how to make a deputation
  • Connect
    • [ ] Process Quantified Self Toronto audio
    • [ ] Co-host Visual Thinkers meetup
    • [ ] Follow up with Quantified Self Toronto people
  • Build
    • [ ] Listen to a QS video and classify it
    • [ ] Fix HST on previous restaurant transactions
    • [ ] Sketchnote a book
    • [ ] Interface for goals
• Relationships
  • [ ] Reply to Mike’s letter
  • [ ] Reply to Mel’s letter
• Life
  • [ ] Return books to the Japan Foundation library
  • [ ] [#C] Study for the Canadian citizenship test
  • [ ] Play some more FF?
  • [ ] Figure out org2blog publishing using Org 8

Time review

• Business: 42.1 hours (Earn: 15.4, E1: 14.9, Connect: 9.3, Build: 17.4)
• Discretionary: 39.4 hours (Social: 3.5, Productive: 8.0, Writing: 2.4, Emacs: 2.4)
• Personal: 23.2 hours (Routines: 14.2)
• Sleep: 53.9 hours – average of 7.7 hours per day
• Unpaid work: 9.5 hours (Commuting: 3.3, Cook: 2.4, Tidy: 1.7)