W- and I spent all of Monday shoveling three tons of gravel and limestone screenings. The backyard is slowly taking shape. Whee! I like spending time with W-, and it’s good to get stuff done.

I’ve been experimenting with keeping my weekly plans pretty loose, putting down only my commitments instead of including optional tasks that I end up postponing anyway. I give myself plenty of space in my schedule, and then I work on whatever projects I’m interested in. My Emacs Org text file keeps a lot of TODOs and ideas to work on, and there are always things to learn. My interests tend to go in phases. These days, I lean more towards writing and coding than drawing visual book reviews, so my book backlog is piling up. C’est la vie!

Blog posts

• Sketchnotes, life – Weekly review: Week ending June 7, 2013
• Unstructured time, shaping your wants, and giving yourself permission
• So that’s what three tons of stuff looks like…
• Animating things in Emacs
• Sketchnotes: How to Live an Amazing Life (C.C. Chapman, Third Tuesday Toronto)
• Getting started with blogging when no one’s reading
• Quantified Awesome: Analyzing time data–the questions I ask and how I answer them
• Priming the idea pump

Accomplished this week

• Business
  • Earn
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Monday
    • Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • Sketchnote B event – Tuesday
    • Revise illustration for M
  • Connect
    • Sketchnote Chris Chapman’s talk on how to live an amazing life
    • Hang out with Bernie Michalik and Aaron Kim
    • Meet Denise Balkissoon and discuss Quantified Self
  • Build
    • Quantified Awesome
      • Properly filter review by parent ID
      • Add total number of entries to record category view
      • Add day, month, and week columns to CSV for easy summary
      • Get cucumber tests to work
    • Start exploring Scrivener as a way of planning blog posts
• Relationships
  • Help put in gravel
  • Hang out with Gabriel Mansour
  • Talk to Eric Boyd about timetracking
  • Chat with Mom
• Life
  • Listen to http://quantifiedself.com/2013/05/jared-chung-on-tracking-time/
  • Go through more Japanese flashcards
  • Get lots of biking time!

Plans for next week

• Business
  • Earn
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Thursday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Tuesday
    • [ ] Earn: Consulting – E1 – Help on Saturday
  • Build
    • [ ] Sketchnote a book
    • [ ] Sort out receipt for cheques
    • [ ] Set up electronic link between main account and savings account
  • Connect
    • [ ] Prepare for presentation on Evernote and visual thinking
    • [ ] Give presentation on Evernote and visual thinking
    • [ ] Hang out with people and chat about blogging
• Relationships
  • [ ] Do another strength training workout
  • [ ] Hang out with Emma
  • [X] Help put in limestone screenings
• Life
  • … we’ll see!

Time review

• Business: 36.0 hours (Earn: 19.2, E1: 12.1, Connect: 8.6, Build: 8.3)
• Discretionary: 33.3 hours (Social: 5.8, Productive: 6.9, Writing: 5.5)
• Personal: 25.1 hours (Routines: 11.1)
• Sleep: 63.4 hours – average of 9.1 hours per day
• Unpaid work: 11.2 hours (Cook: 5.3)