Blog posts

• Weekly review: Week ending May 3, 2013
• Thinking about movies
• Sketchnoting: Finding a balance of details and diagrams, and calibrating your writing to time
• Hacking my motivation for workouts
• Quantifying my habit of writing, and things I’ve learned along the way
• Use the weekly review to give yourself permission to do things you want to do
• Monthly review: April 2013

Accomplished this week

• Business
  • Earn
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Do some consulting this Wednesday
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • Discuss curriculum sketches and workshops with M
    • Start drafting a curriculum sketch for M
    • Send invoice
  • Connect
    • Help Cena Mayo with Emacs
    • Join ALU Lisp meeting
    • Attend Toronto Agile Support Group
  • Build
    • Accounting
      • Set up accounting thing
      • Ask accountant about QST
      • Send Interac transfer to accountant
      • Check out and send accountant’s copy of my Quickbooks records
      • Apply accounting changes
      • [#A] Call Revenu Quebec – Waiting for call back
    • System administration
      • Copy my home directory
      • Copy all the files for my website
      • Copy ~/all_dbs.sql
• Relationships
  • Family
    • Upload database
    • Recreate basic WordPress
    • Synchronize e-mails
  • Go to HackLab open house
  • Host tea party
• Life
  • Japanese
    • Register for a Japan Foundation library card
    • Study a Japanese song
    • Learn new Japanese song
    • Read a volume of manga
  • Gardening
    • Buy tomato plants from corner store
    • Plant tomatoes and other vegetables
    • Add compost and topsoil to grass and backyard
  • Set up dentist appointment
  • Game: Make progress toward endgame
  • See cherry blossoms
  • Draw for the fun of it
  • Declutter
  • Fill up my TFSA and RRSP

Plans for next week

• Business
  • Earn
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Talk to Shawn about sketchnoting FITC
    • [ ] Sketchnote GIST tech conference
  • Build
    • [ ] Practise drawing for two hours
    • [ ] Sketchnote a book
    • [ ] Interface for goals
    • [ ] Figure out org2blog publishing using Org 8
    • [ ] Set up virtual box
  • Connect
    • [ ] Talk to Matt about what he can help me with
• Relationships
  • [ ] Get together with W-‘s family
• Life
  • [ ] Collect 50 sentences for my Japanese-English deck
  • [ ] Take notes on “Strategies for Reading Japanese”
  • [ ] Plant lavender
  • [ ] Have dental new patient exam

Time review

• Business: 35.8 hours (Earn: 18.2, E1: 18.2, Connect: 3.1, Build: 14.5)
• Discretionary: 43.6 hours (Social: 8.6, Productive: 15.5, Writing: 3.7, Emacs: 2.6, Play: 3.4)
• Personal: 20.9 hours (Routines: 11.3)
• Sleep: 54.1 hours – average of 7.7 hours per day
• Unpaid work: 13.7 hours (Commuting: 1.5, Cook: 4.6, Tidy: 1.9)